The future of personal information management.

The future of personal information management. Part I, Our information, always and forever William Jones.

We are well into a second age of digital information. Our information is moving from the desktop to the laptop to the "palmtop" and up into an amorphous cloud on theWeb. How can one manage both the challenges and opportunities of this new world of digital information? What does the future...

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Main Author: Jones, William P., 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, c2012.
Series:Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ; # 21.
Subjects:
Personal information management.
Morgan & Claypool
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A new age of information
  • 1.1 A definition of PIM
  • 1.2 Who benefits from better PIM and how?
  • 1.3 Related fields and relevant terms
  • 1.3.1 A useful interplay
  • 1.3.2 "PIMs" and PDAs
  • 1.3.3 Human/computer interaction, human-information interaction and library & information science
  • 1.3.4 Knowledge vs. information, knowledge management vs. information management, PKM vs. PIM
  • 1.3.5 Time, task and project management
  • 1.4 A short history of PIM
  • 1.5 A neolithic revolution in personal information management
  • 1.6 Roads and walls
  • 1.7 The plan for the remainder of the book
  • 2. The basics of PIM
  • 2.1 Information as the object of PIM
  • 2.1.1 The information item and its form
  • 2.1.2 How is information personal?
  • 2.1.3 Defining a personal space of information
  • 2.1.4 Personal information collections
  • 2.2 The managing activities of PIM
  • 2.2.1 Defining a mapping
  • 2.2.2 Six activities of personal information management
  • 2.2.3 Putting more "meta" into a balanced practice of PIM
  • 2.3 Conclusion
  • 3. Our information, always at hand
  • 3.1 Physical meets digital
  • 3.1.1 Accessorize! The watch watch and other wearable devices of input and output
  • 3.1.2 The challenges of privacy and security
  • 3.1.3 Lifelogging
  • 3.1.4 The uses of an I.E.log
  • 3.2 Constantly connected (and constantly on call)
  • 3.2.1 Multi-tasking "busyness"
  • 3.2.2 Really getting real things done
  • 3.3 Conclusion
  • 4. Our information, forever on the web
  • 4.1 Read, write, ... realize!
  • 4.1.1 A progression
  • 4.1.2 From the desktop to the web and back again
  • 4.1.3 Moving on out: from vertical high-rises to bands of horizontal integration
  • 4.1.4 The objects of our applications, Part I: Units and tools of construction
  • 4.1.5 Our houses on wheels
  • 4.2 Living with, through and on the Web
  • 4.2.1 Living with the Web
  • 4.2.2 Living through the Web
  • 4.2.3 Living on the Web
  • 4.2.4 The objects of our applications, Part II: Building our stories
  • 4.3 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Author's biography.

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