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Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
By: William JonesImprint: Morgan Kaufmann
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WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information - not even in the "home waters" of an office or on the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may be controlling us - keeping us from doing the things we need to do, getting us to waste money and precious time. The growth of available information, plus the technologies for its creation, storage, retrieval, distribution and use, is astonishing and sometimes bewildering. Can there be a similar growth in our understanding for how best to manage information and informational tools?
This book provides a comprehensive overview of personal information management (PIM) as both a study and a practice of the activities people do and need to be doing so that information can work for them in their daily lives.
Introductory chapters of Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management provide an overview of PIM and a sense for its many facets. The next chapters look more closely at the essential challenges of PIM, including finding, keeping, organizing, maintaining, managing privacy, and managing information flow. The book also contains chapters on search, email, mobile PIM, web-based support, and other technologies relevant to PIM.
*For more information and author blog visit http://www.keepingthingsfound.com/.
* Focuses exclusively on one of the most interesting and challenging problems in today's world
* Explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure improvements
* Presents key questions to consider when evaluating any new PIM informational tools or systems
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| Release Date: 11-01-2007 | |
| Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann |
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Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
Chapter One
A study and a practice
Keeping found information found is an essential challenge of personal information management or PIM. More generally, PIM is about taking charge of the information in our lives. Are we managing our information, or is it managing us? Can we weave an informational fabric that has a strength, utility, and beauty that is far greater than a simple jumble of its component threads? Better PIM starts by asking the right questions. Better PIM means that each of us becomes a student of our practice of PIM.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
1.1 Keeping found things found
Much of our lives is spent in the finding of things. Find a house that's just right for you. Find a computer or "build" your own. Find your dream job. Find your dream mate. But, once found, what then?
Keeping found things found presents its own set of challenges. You invest your time, your money, your hopes and dreams—your self—in the things you find. Now what? Now that you have found the house that's just right for you, how do you pay for it? How do you maintain it? How do you make it a home? Your computer comes with lots of processing power, memory, and disk storage. It's loaded with software. But how do you make it work for you in your life? Similarly with a dream job or even a dream mate. How do you balance the demands of work and love?
As with other things, so it is with our information. We find information with difficu
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