Problems and strategies of information conservation and management Every human being stores or stores information. Some keep information organized, others don't. People encounter enormous amounts of information every day, too much to store it all. There are various costs that prevent us from storing all the information we receive. The more information we keep, the more management is required to keep all the information organized. Information must be organized so that people can derive value from it. As with management, exploitation is also a cost of storing all available information. Low-value information should not be retained because it only makes the information retrieval process more difficult. Keeping a large amount of items can be distracting when manual searching is used to find relevant information. People acquire large amounts of information on a daily basis, such as emails, bookmarks, contacts, photos, etc. and they have to decide which ones to keep and which ones are irrelevant and should be disposed of. But people have difficulty deciding whether to keep or delete information. One theory of why people prefer to retain information is because it may prove useful in the future. To know what information to keep and what information to discard, you need to determine the future value of the information. Determining the future value of information is difficult as humans try to reason about hypothetical situations in which it is very scarce*. The decision to retain or delete potential future information is subject to two types of errors, information is not retained and is not available when it is needed, and retaining irrelevant information can make a person feel guilty for being disorganized. The world is moving away from paper and becoming...half of paper......This process is often repeated. Users have problems processing informational messages. Observations have shown that people spend a lot of time trying to organize these messages. A possible solution could be to create folders for informational messages, but creating dedicated folders for informational messages is difficult for several reasons. Generating folders requires considerable effort, and archiving is cognitively difficult. Successful storage of information information depends largely on the user's ability to know whether they will need the information in the future. Web information is largely not actionable but informative. One form of management is adding bookmarks to certain web pages. Other strategies include printing pages, sending links in your emails, copying links to documents, generating sticky notes, or using of cognitive memory.
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