News & Announcements
- Upcoming: October, 2008. I Give Up! Five Factors that Contribute to the Abandonment of Information Management Strategies accepted short paper to be presented as poster by E. Jones at the annual meeting of ASIST, Columbus, OH.
- Upcoming: October, 2008. Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?: The Devil Is in the Details accepted paper to be presented by A. Civan at the annual meeting of ASIST, Columbus, OH.
- Upcoming: October, 2008. Personal information management as a study and a practice a tutorial to be presented by W. Jones at the annual meeting of ASIST, Columbus, OH.
- Upcoming: October, 2008. My so-called life on the Web , a panel to be moderated by W. Jones at the annual meeting of ASIST, Columbus, OH.
- June 18, 2008. Invited presentation, The world is at my doorstep ... and the house is a mess: Putting our information in its place in a digital age.©, Invited presentation at the annual meeting of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), Seattle, WA.
- April 11, 2008. Seminar on Personal Information Management given at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark by W. Jones.
- April 8, 2008. The Personal Project Planner: Planning to Organize Personal Information , presented at CHI 2008 by W. Jones.
- April 5-6, 2008. PIM 2008 workshop in connection with CHI 2008,Organized by J. Teevan and W. Jones.
- November 2007. Invited presentation Personal Information for a World as We Want It to Be, given by W. Jones at annual meeting of INFORMS, Seattle, WA.
- November 2007. The book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management by W. Jones is now available for purchase.
- September 2007. The book Personal Information Management, Jones & Teevan (eds.) is now available for purchase.
- Apr. 30, 2007. PIM Course given at CHI 2007.
- Mar. 28, 2007. KFTF work presented at iEdge 2007 conference in Seattle, WA.
- Feb. 9, 2007.
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What is KFTF?
Much of our lives is spent in the finding of things. Find a house or a car that's just right for you. Find your dream job. Or your dream mate. But, once found, what then?
As with other things, so it is with our information. Finding is just the first step. How do we keep this information so that it's there later when we need it? How do we organize it in ways that make sense for us in the lives we want to lead? Information found does us little good if we misplace it or forget to use it. And just as we must maintain a house or a car, we need to maintain our information - backing it up, archiving or deleting old information, updating information that is no longer accurate. In our digital world, advances in technologies of search and storage have far outpaced balancing advances in tools and techniques that help us to manage and make sense of our information. This project combines fieldwork with selective prototyping in an effort to understand what is needed for us to "keep found things found".
