Note to Self: Examining Personal Information Keeping in a Lightweight Note-Taking Tool
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Author(s)
Van Kleek, Max G.
Bernstein, Michael S.
Panovich, Katrina Marie
Vargas, Gregory G.
Karger, David R.
schraefel, mc
Date Issued
2009
Journal
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Citation
Kleek, Max G. Van et al. “Note to self: examining personal information keeping in a lightweight note-taking tool.” Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. Boston, MA, USA: ACM, 2009. 1477-1480.
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Abstract
This paper describes a longitudinal field experiment in
personal note-taking that examines how people capture and
use information in short textual notes. Study participants
used our tool, a simple browser-based textual note-taking
utility, to capture personal information over the course of
ten days. We examined the information they kept in notes
using the tool, how this information was expressed, and
aspects of note creation, editing, deletion, and search. We
found that notes were recorded extremely quickly and
tersely, combined information of multiple types, and were
rarely revised or deleted. The results of the study
demonstrate the need for a tool such as ours to support the
rapid capture and retrieval of short notes-to-self, and afford
insights into how users' actual note-keeping tendencies
could be used to better support their needs in future PIM
tools.
Subjects
personal information management
note-taking
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518924
