false 2135805 0123708664 9780123708663 11 3 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2135805.Keeping_Found_Things_Found_The_Study_and_Practice_of_Personal_Information_Management 1225295 William Jones 16 4 5 0 false Wed Feb 13 09:12:58 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 09:40:01 -0800 2008
Here's what Prof. Clayton Lewis at the University of Colorado wrote:

"This is an important book. Its theme is powerful and timely. The treatment combines keen observation, practical insight, and broad vision in way seldom seen."

I think “Keeping Found Things Found”, is for all of us who find ourselves struggling to keep on top of (rather than buried by!) our information. How can we manage more effectively? How can we build a world of information that helps us to realize our goals and dreams in the physical world? The book gives some answers. But, more important, the book gives some very useful questions to ask. Every day we run across some new Web initiative or gadget or software tool. Which are worth our time and trouble (and money)? The book gives a checklist of questions to consider. Questions move beyond the usual tool-centered feature list to larger questions concerning how the tool will work for us in our information environment and over time.

Here's the TOC:

I. Foundations
1. A study and a practice
2. A personal space of information
3. A framework for personal information management

II: Activities
4. Finding and re-finding: From need to information
5. Keeping and organizing: From information to need
6. Maintaining information for now and for later
7. Managing privacy and the flow of information
8. Measuring and evaluating
9. Making sense of things


III: Solutions
10. Email disappears?
11. Search gets personal
12. PIM on the go
13. PIM on the Web

V: Conclusions
14. Bringing the pieces together
15. Finding our way in(to) the future
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