Max G. Van Kleek
Michael Bernstein
Katrina Panovich
David R. Karger
mc schraefel
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.
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Digital Library
- Bernstein, M., Van Kleek, M., Karger, D.R.,&schraefel, mc. 2008. Information Scraps: How and Why Information Eludes Our Personal Information Management Tools. Transactions on Information Systems 26(4). Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Van Kleek, M., Bernstein, M., Karger, D. R.,&schraefel, mc. 2007. GUI - Phooey!: The Case for Text Input. In Proc. UIST '07. ACM Press, 193--202 Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Note to self: examining personal information keeping in a lightweight note-taking tool
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