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==PIM research prototypes==
 
==PIM research prototypes==
  
Below is a list of several research PIM prototypes. These tools tried to answer/solve one or more problems we as users face everyday while managing our personal information.
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Below is a list of Personal Information Management (PIM) prototypes that have tried to answer/solve one or more problems we as users face everyday with managing our personal information.
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In the frame on the right is a list of tags. Selecting a checkbox by a particular tag highlights prototypes that correspond to a selected tag. More than one tag can be selected resulting in OR highlighting. Tags were chosen subjectively by the author.
  
In the frame on the right is a list of tags. Selecting a checkbox by a particular tag highlights prototypes that correspond to selected tag. More than one tag can be selected resulting in OR highlighting.
 
  
 
''[http://pim.famnit.upr.si/pim/pimtools.html Stand alone version of the below list]''
 
''[http://pim.famnit.upr.si/pim/pimtools.html Stand alone version of the below list]''
  
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A list has over 80 prototypes listed and is growing (if anyone sends me the paper of their prototype). Although the present list is not short, there are other tools which probably deserve to be listed here. Please [http://pim.famnit.upr.si/blog/index.php?/archives/29-Contact.html let us know of any missing research PIM prototype] (even if it is of commercial nature now). You can also add it at the bottom of this section in a WIKI (look at the example). We would appreciate every suggestion and critique about the list, tags and mistakes we made putting the list together.
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Mainstream PIM applications like Google desktop search, Bento, MS Outlook, etc. or any other smaller scale application are not listed.
  
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Other missing prototypes (any added prototype will be included on a list above):
  
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* Name of the prototype, http://paper.url, tags:
  
A list has over 80 prototypes listed and is growing. Although the present list is not short, there are other tools which probably deserve to be listed here. Please let us know, if you know a research PIM prototype (even if it is of commercial nature now). We would appreciate every suggestion and critique about the list, tags and mistakes we made putting the list together.
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==List of commercial/freeware/.../opensource PIM applications==
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'''Original article can be found [[List of PIM applications|here]].'''
  
Mainstream PIM applications like Google desktop search, Bento, MS Outlook, etc. or any other smaller scale application are not listed.
 
  
The list mostly contains tools that can be installed on personal computers. There are a few tools for PDAs (ChittyChatty) and web (snip!t). A lot of tools have recently emerged on-line to manage personal information of various forms and opened an opportunity to share personal information with others. Some are very noticeable (flickr, facebook, myspace, youtube) and some not so much, but are very exiting and ground breaking (list.it, Proyozo, atomate). These tools are not on the above list but are listed separately below.
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==Visualizing large hierarchies==
  
==Web research prototypes==
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[[File:Tree-camtrees.png|thumb|Figure: Cam tree]]
  
* list.it
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''See main article [[Visualizing large hierarchies]]''
* Proyozo
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* atomate
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Besides lines and nodes (like file hierarchies are presented in today's file managers) and intended outlines (like the table of content of a document) there are several other (large) hierarchy visualizations. Most of these visualizations do provide an overall view on hierarchies but most are also suitable to manage information. Most of them focus on one aspect of information items (e.g. size) and do not provide enough contextual clues for [[PIM frameworks|pim activities]].
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==Other sources and lists==
 
==Other sources and lists==
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There are several lists of PIM applications on the web:
 
There are several lists of PIM applications on the web:
  
* [http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~rick/pim.htm#SYSTEMS Richard Boardman's list of PIM protoypes and commercial/open source/virtual systems]
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* [http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~rick/pim.htm#SYSTEMS Richard Boardman's list of PIM protoypes and commercial/open source/virtual systems] [[Research in PIM (Richard Boardman)|COPY on this WIKI]]
* [http://www.ms.lt/ms/projects/toolkinds/organize.html Tools for Organizing Thoughts] has quite a few PIM applications listed
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* [http://www.ms.lt/ms/projects/toolkinds/organize.html Tools for Organizing Thoughts] has quite a few PIM applications listed [[Tools for organizing thoughts (Andrius Kulikauskas)|COPY on this WIKI]]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_personal_information_managers Wikipedia's list of Personal Information Managers]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_personal_information_managers Wikipedia's list of Personal Information Managers]
 
* [http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=personal+information+managers DMOZ PIM listings]
 
* [http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=personal+information+managers DMOZ PIM listings]
* [http://code.google.com/p/kognite/wiki/DocumentManagementSoftware A list of Document Management Appliations]
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* [http://code.google.com/p/kognite/wiki/DocumentManagementSoftware A list of Document Management Applications] [[A list of Document Management Applications (serkancabi)|COPY on this WIKI]]
  
 
There is also a (rather old) book on available PIM software from 1996:
 
There is also a (rather old) book on available PIM software from 1996:
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Information-Management-Professional-Effectiveness/dp/0814721990" Etzel and Thomas, 1996, Personal information management: tools and techniques for achieving professional effectiveness]
 
* [http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Information-Management-Professional-Effectiveness/dp/0814721990" Etzel and Thomas, 1996, Personal information management: tools and techniques for achieving professional effectiveness]
  
==Visualizing large hierarchies==
 
 
Besides lines and nodes (like file hierarchies are presented in today's file managers) and intended outlines (like the table of content of a document) there are several other (large) hierarchy visualizations. Most of these visualizations do provide an overall view on hierarchies but most are also suitable to manage information. Most of them focus on one aspect of information items (e.g. size) and do not provide enough contextual clues for [[PIM frameworks|pim activities]].
 
 
''See main article [[Visualizing large hierarchies]]''
 
 
* 3-dimensional cone trees <ref name="robertson">Robertson, George G., Card, Stuart K., and Mackinlay, Jock D., Information visualization using 3-D interactive animation, Communications of the ACM 36, 4 (April 1993), 56-71</ref>
 
* Cam trees <ref name="carriere">Carriere, Jeremy and Kazman, Rick, Interacting with huge hierarchies: Beyond cone trees, Proc. IEEE Information Visualization '95, IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos, CA (1995), 74-81.</ref>
 
* Dynamic pruning in the TreeBrowser <ref name="kumar">Harsha Kumard, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Browsing Hierarchical Data with Multi-Level Dynamic Queries and Pruning, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 1995, 46, 103--124</ref>
 
* Hyperbolic trees (+focus)<ref name="lamping">Lamping, John, Rao, Ramana, and Pirolli, Peter, A focus + context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies, Proc. of ACM CHI95 Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, New York, NY (1995), 401-408</ref>
 
* Treemap (1991) uses a size of files and visualizes them as rectangles where the biggest file takes the biggest space on screen [33]. This visualization is good to spot biggest files but not for everyday management. <ref name="johnson">Johnson, Brian, and Shneiderman, Ben, Tree-maps: A space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures, Proc. IEEE Visualization’91, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ (1991), 284–291.</ref>
 
* StepTree - a 3D treemap to navigate large hierarchies <ref name="bladh">Bladh, Thomas and Carr, David A. and Kljun, Matjaz, The Effect of Animated Transitions on User Navigation in 3D Tree-Maps, IV '05: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2005, 297--305, IEEE Computer Society</ref>
 
* Beamtrees<ref name="wijk">J. van Wijk, F. van Ham, and H. van de Wetering. Rendering hierarchical data. Communications of the ACM, 46(9):263, 2003.</ref>
 
* Botanical Trees <ref name="wijk" />
 
* PhylloTrees<ref name="neumann">Petra Neumann, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale and Anand Agarawala, PhylloTrees: Phyllotactic Patterns for Tree Layout, Proceedings of Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization, EuroVis 2006, Lisbon, Portugal</ref>
 
* Information cube (a nested box metaphor) <ref name="rekimoto">J. Rekimoto and M. Green, “The Information Cube: Using Transparency in 3D Information Visualization”, Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS’93), 1993.</ref>
 
* Fractal trees<ref name="koike">Hideki Koike and Hirotaka Yoshihara, Fractal Approaches for Visualizing Huge Hierarchies, In Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1993, 55--60</ref>
 
* PolyPlane trees<ref name="">Seok-Hee Hong and Tom Murtagh, PolyPlane: A New Layout Algorithm For Trees In Three Dimensions, 2006</ref>
 
 
* Circular trees<ref name="ciccarelli">Francesca D. Ciccarelli, Tobias Doerks, Christian von Mering, Christopher J. Creevey, Berend Snel, and Peer Bork1, Toward automatic reconstruction of a highly resolved tree of life, Science, vol. 311, no. 5765, pages 1283, 2006, AAAS</ref>
 
 
Overview papers - Further reading:
 
* Ivan Herman, Guy Melançon and M. Scott Marshall, Graph visualization and navigation in information visualization: A survey, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24--43, 2000 [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/courses/infovis/readings/hermann.pdf PDF]
 
 
Other visualization (related or not to hierarchies):
 
Ben Shneiderman, The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations, The craft of information visualization: readings and reflections, 364--371, 2003 [http://triton.towson.edu/~hhochhei/classes/spring07/686/Hochheiser-eyes.pdf PDF]
 
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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Latest revision as of 14:07, 24 December 2020

PIM application or tool is any tool that help us manage information. In a real world this are desk (if we have e.g. organized piles) file cabinets, paper clips, staples, etc. In the digital world these are applications that let and help us manage information. Examples are file manager, email client, web bookmark manager, calendar, address book, RSS client, voicemail, photo manager, video manager, to-dos, etc.

Some of such applications allow also other activities like viewing, creating, editing information. A web browser's primary function is to browse the web, but it usually has bookmark manager integrated. A web browser is also used to host web applications that let us manage information (like web email client, web calendar, social media). Email client is used to manage information but also for creating new and viewing existing information. An instant messaging (IM) client is used to have conversations with other people but the part that logs conversations and lets us manage them is a PIM.

PIM research prototypes

Below is a list of Personal Information Management (PIM) prototypes that have tried to answer/solve one or more problems we as users face everyday with managing our personal information.

In the frame on the right is a list of tags. Selecting a checkbox by a particular tag highlights prototypes that correspond to a selected tag. More than one tag can be selected resulting in OR highlighting. Tags were chosen subjectively by the author.


Stand alone version of the below list


A list has over 80 prototypes listed and is growing (if anyone sends me the paper of their prototype). Although the present list is not short, there are other tools which probably deserve to be listed here. Please let us know of any missing research PIM prototype (even if it is of commercial nature now). You can also add it at the bottom of this section in a WIKI (look at the example). We would appreciate every suggestion and critique about the list, tags and mistakes we made putting the list together.

Mainstream PIM applications like Google desktop search, Bento, MS Outlook, etc. or any other smaller scale application are not listed.

Other missing prototypes (any added prototype will be included on a list above):

List of commercial/freeware/.../opensource PIM applications

Original article can be found here.


Visualizing large hierarchies

Figure: Cam tree

See main article Visualizing large hierarchies

Besides lines and nodes (like file hierarchies are presented in today's file managers) and intended outlines (like the table of content of a document) there are several other (large) hierarchy visualizations. Most of these visualizations do provide an overall view on hierarchies but most are also suitable to manage information. Most of them focus on one aspect of information items (e.g. size) and do not provide enough contextual clues for pim activities.







Other sources and lists

There are several lists of PIM applications on the web:

There is also a (rather old) book on available PIM software from 1996:


Notes