Personal information management

In his autobiography, American founding father Benjamin Franklin described 13 virtues [2]. The thirdordergave him the most trouble: "Order," he wrote, ".. with regard to Places for things, papers, etc., I found extreamly difficult to acquire [sic]. Today, more than 200 years later, order in many human endeavors continues to be an elusive goal. Personal information management (PIM) is intended to support the activities we, as individuals, perform to order our daily lives through the acquisition, organization, maintenance, retrieval, and sharing of information.