Principal Investigator David Karger
Project Website http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jourknow/
Information scraps are the small notes and thoughts we deal with every day: they are scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on corners of sheets of paper, buried inside the bodies of e-mail messages sent to ourselves, and typed haphazardly into text files. This scattered data contains our great ideas, sketches, notes, reminders, driving directions, and even our poetry.
The Jourknow project is re-envisioning how you live and work with information scraps. What if your computer could do much better than being a digital sticky note application? What if it could remember where you were, or what you meant, and possibly even help you get it done? The Jourknow team has done ethnographic research investigating the nature of information scraps and built a new tool called Jourknow to help you manage the data. Jourknow associates your notes with contextual information, like where you were and who you were chatting with, helps you organize scattered thoughts like recipes, and forwards your thoughts into the appropriate applications.