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Note to Self: Examining Personal Information Keeping in a Lightweight Note-Taking Tool

van kleek, m., bernstein, m., Panovich, K., Vargas, G., Karger, D. and schraefel, m. (2009) Note to Self: Examining Personal Information Keeping in a Lightweight Note-Taking Tool. In: ACM CHI 2009.

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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 not only demonstrated the need for a tool such as ours to support the rapid capture and retrieval of short notes-to-self, but also provided glimpses of how users' actual note-keeping tendencies could be used to better support their needs in future PIM tools.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:
max van kleek
michael bernstein
Katrina Panovich
Greg Vargas
David Karger
mc schraefel
Additional Information:Nominated, best in CHI Award, ACM CHI 2009
Research Group:Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Current ECS Groups > Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Date:2009
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Citations:ISI: 1
Downloads (2010):42
ID Code:17100
Last Modified:23 Sep 2011 10:37
Deposited On:13 Feb 2009 10:40 by schraefel, monica

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1. Bellotti, V., Dalal, B., Good, N., et al. 2004. What a To-do: Studies of Task Management Towards the Design of a Personal Task List Manager. In Proc. CHI ’04. ACM Press, 735-742.

2. 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).

3. Kalnikaité, V. & Whittaker, S. 2007. Software or Wetware?: Discovering When and Why People Use Digital Prosthetic Memory. In Proc. CHI ’07. ACM Press, 71-80.

4. Lin, M., Lutters, W. G., and Kim, T. S. 2004. Understanding the Micronote Lifecycle: Improving Mobile Support for Informal Note Taking. In Proc. CHI '04. ACM Press, 687-694.

5. 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

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