Some interesting things from "Searching to eliminate personal information management" This is one of a set of interesting articles in the new CACM issue on PIM. Unfortunately, there's nothing really new in these articles if you've been following the contributors' work in other information science venues (like ASIST, IR, MSR tech reports, etc). These articles also aren't research articles, but more magazine-like articles so the actual research is referred to -not reported. Anyway, there were some points worth remembering

Cutrell, E., Dumais, S. T., & Teevan, J. (2006). Searching to eliminate personal information management. Communications of the ACM, 49(1), 58-64. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1107458.1107492

Searching for PIM vs. web searching

• more about people (25% of searches in Stuff I've Seen by person's name or e-mail alias)
  
• more about time (not so fast -- time/date remembered/searched differs with context, could be when something happened, when an invitation was received, when a page was viewed, in episodic terms (at the same time as x happened, before y happened), etc)
  
• quick search with post-search sorting, refinement by facet preferred
  

BTW: Jack Vinson got his notes out first ('cause he worked my Christmas :) )

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