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Personal information management

• Practicing information management

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.