Email overload: exploring personal information management of email
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Creating creativity: user interfaces for supporting innovation
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 1
Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Lifestreams: a storage model for personal data
ACM SIGMOD Record
Taking email to task: the design and evaluation of a task management centered email tool
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Faceted metadata for image search and browsing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing end-user information environments built on semistructured data models
Designing end-user information environments built on semistructured data models
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Ncore: architecture and implementation of a flexible, collaborative digital library
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
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While collections-aggregation mechanisms such as folders, buddy lists, photo albums, etc.-clearly play a central role in information management, the potential benefits of true first class support for collections are masked by disparate implementations that force users to pay attention to technological distinctions such as application, format, and protocol. We argue that systems should expose a single unified concept of collection and that concepts such as portals, cross-application projects, customized menus, and e-mail-task unification come about naturally as a result of our abstraction. In addition, uniform support for collections brings about a new set of capabilities for supporting creative processes. We discuss a prototype implementation of this abstraction in our Haystack system, give several examples of why we believe our abstraction is useful in everyday information management, and present some preliminary results from user studies that support our hypotheses.