A Second Brain Without Obsidian: PARA in Five Folders
PARA was never a plugin. It is five folders and one habit: put it in the Inbox. Here is the native way, on Mac and iPhone.
PARA was never a plugin. It is five folders and one habit: put it in the Inbox. Here is the native way, on Mac and iPhone.
Claude Code, Codex and Cursor keep memory and rules in Markdown. What that means for notes in Notion, Obsidian and Org.
Tasks, dates, time logs and table formulas, built into plain-text Org files. Shown in Tempo, next to the Obsidian plugin for each.
No database, no admin panel, no monthly bill. How a folder of Org files runs my blog, and why Medium never gets the original.
It isn’t the graph or the plugins. What you love is quieter — your words are files you own again, and you can finally stop bracing.
A global hotkey, twenty lines of shell, and any thought — in any app — lands in your notes as plain text. It works for org and Obsidian…
Notion and Obsidian store everything, unstick nothing. The film ’Stutz’ gives you the tools — log what it triggers in a new PARA project.
Your Obsidian vault is just files — which means a local model can read it. PARA notes, a private AI, and not one byte sent to the cloud.
The best note system I ever had cost nothing and had no search. It just stood where I couldn’t walk past it.
Ten years, a dozen apps, and three systems run daily. Almost none of it survived — and what did fits on a single page.