The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff is a book about personal information management (PIM) written by Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker. It was published in 2016 by MIT Press.[1] The book examines why and how individuals organize their personal digital information, as well as how new PIM systems can make this process more efficient.[2] It has three parts: Personal Information Management: The Curation Perspective, Hierarchical Folders and Their Alternatives, and The User-Subjective Approach to PIM Systems Design.[3]
In his review for the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, William Jones found the book to be a comprehensive overview of Bergman and Whittaker's research work, but felt it was missing key details that would provide readers with a broader and more nuanced understanding of PIM.[4] Dorothy Waugh's review, published in the American Archivist, praised the book as an "excellent introduction" to PIM, but noted that the studies cited by the authors were somewhat dated.[3]