Better to organize personal information by folders or by tags?: The devil is in the details

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 45, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Civan, Andrea ^a   Jones, William ^a   Klasnja, Predrag ^a   Bruce, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 71949122945     PISSN: 15508390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2008.1450450214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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