Resources are the third of four top-level categories in Tiago Forte's 📝PARA Method, covering a range of topics a person is interested in and learning about.
Forte Labs' introduction to PARA gives examples such as graphic design, personal productivity, organic gardening, coffee, modern architecture, web design, Japanese language, French literature, notetaking, breathwork, habit formation, photography and marketing assets. Its overview of 📝Building a Second Brain (BASB) defines resources as topics or interests that may be useful in the future.
PARA groups information into four top-level folders, 📝Projects, 📝Areas, Resources and 📝Archives, each holding a small number of subfolders. When processing a new item, the BASB overview has a person ask in turn which project it would be useful for, then which area, then which resource it belongs to; if none applies, the item is probably best archived or not saved at all. Forte's description of archives includes resources a person is no longer interested in.
Forte describes "organize by actionability" as a mantra he returns to again and again. In an April 2026 Forte Labs post on PARA and artificial intelligence, he writes that PARA offers pre-assembled bundles of context, and that a person who wants help exploring an interest can point an AI tool at a Resource folder.