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Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management

by William Jones

July 2010

Intermediate to advanced

448 pages

15h 20m

English

Morgan Kaufmann

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1.1 Keeping found things found1.2 An ideal and the reality1.3 A brief history of PIM1.4 Who benefits from better PIM and how?1.5 A study and a practice1.6 Looking forward: A map for this book
2.1 Starting out2.2 What is information to us?2.3 How is information personal?2.4 The information item and its form2.5 Defining a personal space of information2.6 Making sense of the PSI2.7 Looking back, looking forward
3.1 Starting out3.2 Perspectives on personal information management3.3 PIM activities to map between information and need3.4 PIM-related activities and PIM-related areas3.5 Weaving PIM activities together3.6 Looking back, looking forward
4.1 Starting out4.2 Getting oriented4.3 Everyday finding: Death by a thousand look-ups4.4 Finding is multistep4.5 The limitations in ideal dialogs of finding4.6 Wayfinding through the PSI4.7 Looking back, looking forward
5.1 Starting out5.2 Getting oriented5.3 Everyday keeping and organizing: To each his own5.4 Keeping is multifaceted5.5 The limitations of future perfect visions5.6 PICing our battles5.7 Looking back, looking forward
6.1 Starting out6.2 Getting oriented6.3 Maintaining for now6.4 Maintaining for later6.5 Maintaining for our lives and beyond6.6 Looking back, looking forward
7.1 Starting out7.2 Getting oriented7.3 Managing the outflow7.4 Managing the inflow7.5 Staying in the flow7.6 Looking back, looking forward
8.1 Starting out8.2 Getting oriented8.3 A yardstick for measuring PIM practice elements8.4 What can research tell us about methods of measuring and evaluating in our practices of PIM?8.5 Measuring and evaluating in real life8.6 Can self-study of PIM practices contribute to the larger study of PIM?8.7 Looking back, looking forward
9.1 Starting out9.2 Getting oriented9.3 Making sense as outcome vs. activity9.4 Making sense of things as a PIM activity9.5 Methods for making sense9.6 Looking back, looking forward
10.1 Starting out: Is email a very successful failure?10.2 PIM problems in email: The one–two punch10.3 PIM activities in email10.4 Future visions of email10.5 Looking back, looking forward
11.1 Starting out11.2 Search-as-interaction11.3 Search-as-technology11.4 Making search more personal11.5 Wayfinding and search11.6 Looking back, looking forward
12.1 Starting out12.2 Getting oriented12.3 A foreseeable future12.4 What to expect from PIM-on-the-go?12.5 Looking back, looking forward
13.1 Starting out13.2 Getting oriented13.3 A foreseeable future?13.4 What to expect from PIM-on-the-Web13.5 Looking back, looking forward
14.1 Starting out14.2 Getting oriented14.3 Stories of synergy14.4 Kinds of integration14.5 Enabling unifications14.6 Looking back, looking forward
15.1 Starting out15.2 To the future15.3 In the future15.4 On our way