Searching to eliminate personal information management
Communications of the ACMPublished 1 January 2006
Edward Cutrell, Susan Dumais, Jaime Teevan
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Search systems can alleviate the need to organize personal information by helping us find it no matter where the authors encountered it, what they remember about it, and even if they forget it exists.
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Search systems can alleviate the need to organize personal information by helping us find it no matter where we encountered it, what we remember about it, and even if we forget it exists.
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Computer ScienceDecision Sciences
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