Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff Bergman Ofer Bar-Ilan University
Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently.Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal…
Specifikacia Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff Bergman Ofer Bar-Ilan University
Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently.Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails and texts sent and received. To access any of this, we have to find it. The ease (or difficulty) of finding something depends on how we organize our digital stuff. In this book, personal information management (PIM) experts Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker explain why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how the design of new PIM systems can help us manage our collections more efficiently.Bergman and Whittaker report that many of us use hierarchical folders for our personal digital organizing. Critics of this method point out that information is hidden from sight in