With its theme Our Information Always and Forever Part I of this book covers the basics of
personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six
(different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key
issues that arise in the great migration of our information onto the Web and into a myriad of
mobile devices. Part 2 provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information
that promise to profoundly alter our practices of PIM and through these practices the way we
lead our lives. Part 2 is in five chapters: - Chapter 5. Technologies of Input and Output.
Technologies in support of gesture touch voice and even eye movements combine to support a
more natural user interface (NUI). Technologies of output include glasses and watch watches.
Output will also increasingly be animated with options to zoom. - Chapter 6. Technologies to
Save Our Information. We can opt for life logs to record our experiences with increasing
fidelity. What will we use these logs for? And what isn't recorded that should be? - Chapter 7.
Technologies to Search Our Information. The potential for personalized search is enormous and
mostly yet to be realized. Persistent searches situated in our information landscape will
allow us to maintain a diversity of projects and areas of interest without a need to
continually switch from one to another to handle incoming information. - Chapter 8.
Technologies to Structure Our Information. Structure is key if we are to keep find and make
effective use of our information. But how best to structure? And how best to share structured
information between the applications we use with other people and also with ourselves over
time? What lessons can we draw from the failures and successes in web-based efforts to share
structure? - Chapter 9. PIM Transformed and Transforming: Stories from the Past Present and
Future. Part 2 concludes with a comparison between Licklider's world of information in 1957 and
our own world of information today. And then we consider what the world of information is
likely to look like in 2057. Licklider estimated that he spent 85% of his thinking time in
activities that were clerical and mechanical and might (someday) be delegated to the computer.
What percentage of our own time is spent with the clerical and mechanical? What about in 2057?
