i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

21 October 2009

Personal information management is "the practice and the study of the activities that people perform to acquire, organize, maintain, and retrieve information for everyday use."   The modern dialog about PIM has been strongly shaped by Bush's Memex, but since PIM is inherently embedded in user activities, things have gotten more complicated as personal information is increasingly managed (or not managed) across multiple devices and contexts (including "the cloud") .  People employ a range of strategies for PIM, rarely consciously or explicitly, and generally in sub-optimal ways.

(Download recorded lecture from http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i202/f09/files/202-20091021.mp3  )