My Life Bits: A PERSONAL DATABASE FOR EVERYTHING.

The article presents the author's description of the development of software, MyLifeBits, for recording, storing, and accessing a personal lifetime archive. Memex, a personal information system, served as the blueprint for MyLifeBits with links and comments holding a central role. Faced with folders...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 88 - 96
Autores principales: Gemmell, Jim, Bell, Gordon, Lueder, Roger
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2006
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