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Evaluating personal information management behaviors and tools

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 1

Pages 84 - 86

https://doi.org/10.1145/1107458.1107497

Published: 01 January 2006 Publication History

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How to study and understand the idiosyncratic PIM behaviors we exhibit naturally at home, at work, and in between, in the interests of developing future PIM tools.

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Personal information management

January 2006

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DOI:10.1145/1107458

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