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title: 'Dont Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (2005)'
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# Don’t Take My Folders Away! Organizing Personal Information to Get Things Done
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## Dont Take My Folders Away! Organizing Personal Information to Get Things Done
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2005-01-11
##### Author
Jones, William
Phuwanartnurak, Ammy Jiranida
Gill, Rajdeep
Bruce, Harry
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##### Abstract
A study explores the way people organize information in support of projects (“teach a course”, “plan a wedding”, etc.). The folder structures to organize project information especially electronic documents and other files frequently resembled a “divide and conquer” problem decomposition with subfolders corresponding to major components (subprojects) of the project. Folders were clearly more than simply a means to one end: Organizing for later retrieval. Folders were information in their own right representing, for example, a persons evolving understanding of a project and its components. Unfortunately, folders are often “overloaded” with information. For example, folders sometimes included leading characters to force an ordering (“aa”, “zz”). And folder hierarchies frequently reflected a tension between organizing information for current use vs. repeated re-use.
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