The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
Bergman, Ofer,author.
Whittaker, Steve,1957-author.
Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, emails, Web pages we visited, tasks, contacts, appointments and pictures we took. To use any of this, we have to find it. The ease of finding something depends on how we organize our digital stuff. In this text, personal information management (PIM) experts Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker explain why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how better design can help us manage our collections more efficiently.
Specialized.
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, emails, Web pages we visited, tasks, contacts, appointments and pictures we took. To use any of this, we have to find it. The ease of finding something depends on how we organize our digital stuff. In this text, personal information management (PIM) experts Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker explain why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how better design can help us manage our collections more efficiently.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Personal archives and curation processes -- Keeping -- Management -- Exploitation -- The search alternative -- The tagging alternative -- The group management alternative -- Why is navigation the preferred PIM retrieval method? -- The user-subjective approach -- The subjective important principle -- The subjective project classification principle -- The subjective context principle.
Description based on print version record.
Personal information management.