Topic summary
Personal information manager
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Personal information management.
Personal space of information and personal information collections
An encyclopaedic review of PIM literature suggests that all six senses of personal information listed above and the tools and technologies used to work with such information (from email applications and word processors to personal information managers and virtual assistants) combine to form a personal space of information (PSI, pronounced as in the Greek letter, alternately referred to as a personal information space) that is unique for each individual. Within a person's PSI are personal information collections (PICs) or, simply, collections. Examples include: