W. Lloyd Williams

W. Lloyd Williams

Notion As a PARA-based Second Brain

Often we try to keep our most active projects and tasks “top of mind.” Though the brain is a poor storage device, and makes makes retaining an overload of information difficult. You would never buy a computer that lost as much data as our brain does e

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W. Lloyd Williams
Apr 01, 2020
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If you are like me, you have journaled for years and collected bits of information that resonate with you. By now you have archived thousands of notes, articles, images, notebooks, and items you intended to do something with, but have not had the time.

I began using Evernote on November 16, 2010. The first note I ever entered: “Some stories should never…

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