# Personal information management

Date: 2020-04-23 23:21:47 +08:00Date modified: 2021-05-21 18:46:17 +08:00

Personal information management (PIM) is self-explanatory as it is. It the process of managing your information including File metadata, Note-taking, library management, and much more. Those information surely didn't come out of nowhere, you most likely got the idea from others. Thus, minding about Information literacy is a good thing.

# Practicing information management

While there's no correct way to practice PIM but to start:

- Maintain your own digital library which can make managing personal belongings from your personal photos, academic libraries and references, and your anime collection all the more easier.

- While not a good one, the 3-2-1 rule is a good starting point for practicing backups. The rule is simple: 3 copies of your data stored in 2 media (e.g., internal hard drive, external storage) with at least 1 of them stored offsite of your computer (e.g., remote location, cloud service).

- Start to manage File metadata but only for the most relevant resources.

- Start to Use timestamps as a future-proofing method.

- Consider to create Digital gardens, a personal wiki with a focus on growth.

## Backlinks

- Note-taking
- Org mode
- Information literacy
- Simple tools make better workflows
- File metadata
- Index