Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
by Ofer Bergman, Steve Whittaker · first published 2016
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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
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The article mentions a few technologies like IPFS, so I'm just mentioning Camlistore for completeness because its in this space too. https://camlistore.org/ I'm reading "The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff (MIT Press)". They seem to prefer hierarchies (I'm not far through the book yet). https://www.amazon.com/Science-Managing-Digital-Stuff-Press/...
on “Tagsistant: semantic filesystem for Linux” ↗…search results were very cool. I have doubts about the rich JSON metadata format, their model of mutable files, and whether I can represent and query the my kind of metadata in their system. Thoughts on "Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff": I sat down at the public library and read part of the book. Your early warning about hierarchies proved correct. The authors seem to be very focused on conducting user studies and timing people's time…
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