Email in Personal Information Management

Whittaker, Steve, Bellotti, Victoria and Gwizdka, Jacek Email in Personal Information Management. Communications of the ACM, 2006, vol. 49, n. 1, pp. 68-73. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

Email's conduit function means the inbox, folders, search, and sort are used to support core PIM functions of task management, personal archiving, and contact management.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: personal information management, email
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology > LA. Telecommunications.
I. Information treatment for information services
L. Information technology and library technology > LJ. Software.
Depositing user: Jacek Gwizdka
Date deposited: 24 Nov 2009
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:15
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13576

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