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May 12, 2011

KFTF – Keeping Found Things Found™

Filed under: Information Retrieval,Information Reuse — Patrick Durusau @ 7:58 am

KFTF – Keeping Found Things Found™

From the website:

Much of our lives is spent in the finding of things. Find a house or a car that’s just right for you. Find your dream job. Or your dream mate. But, once found, what then?

As with other things, so it is with our information. Finding is just the first step. How do we keep this information so that it’s there later when we need it? How do we organize it in ways that make sense for us in the lives we want to lead? Information found does us little good if we misplace it or forget to use it. And just as we must maintain a house or a car, we need to maintain our information – backing it up, archiving or deleting old information, updating information that is no longer accurate. In our digital world, advances in technologies of search and storage have far outpaced balancing advances in tools and techniques that help us to manage and make sense of our information. This project combines fieldwork with selective prototyping in an effort to understand what is needed for us to “keep found things found.”

There is also software, called Plantz™, that has been open sourced by the project.

Take control of the information in your life through one consolidated interface. Plan by typing your thoughts freehand. Link your thoughts to files, Web pages, and email messages. Organize everything into a single, integrated document that helps you manage all the projects you want to get done. Planz™ is an overlay to your file system so your information stays under your control.

Is anyone familiar with this software? Thanks!

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