New book on personal information management

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Posted by jamesofford
Nov 3, 2008 at 04:08 AM

Has anyone else read Keeping found Things Found by William Jones? It is an interesting book on personal information managment. Not so much how to do it, as how to study it. very interesting. William Jones is the manager of the Keeping Found Things Found project at the University of Washington.

Jim

Posted by Ken
Nov 3, 2008 at 04:40 PM

Hi Jim,

Thanks for posting this information. Their web site looks quite interesting ( http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/index.htm ), and I will have to spend a few moments looking it over when I have a chance.

Thanks,

—Ken

Posted by Chris Thompson
Nov 3, 2008 at 09:36 PM

Thanks for the heads-up. Looks really interesting.

Back when I was deeply into Ecco, I had the same idea as their current research prototype “Personal Project Planner”... using the outline itself as an overlay to the filesystem for storing information. It’s an elegant idea. Though what precise advantages it provides over and above single-pane outliners with linking/attachment capability, like Ecco, InfoQube, or OmniFocus is unclear, other than convenient directories.

Computer people have a saying that any sufficiently large project is doomed to reimplement LISP, poorly. It’s probably also true that any sufficiently good PIM is doomed to reimplement the major ideas in Ecco, often less elegantly.

—Chris

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 4, 2008 at 02:33 AM

This does look interesting. Reminds me of an application called Correlate, which has gotten a little long in the tooth:

http://www.correlate.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=&me=2

They used to offer a free personal edition, but I could not find a reference to it. Clearly, the Personal Project Planner is more sophisticated.

Steve Z.

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