Organizing Information

The meaning of the word “organize” when used in the context of “organizing information.”

• The purpose of the act is “to get what you need as soon as you need it.
• Full-text searches of electronic information greatly aided that goal.
• The “organizing” of using full-text search doesn’t look like organizing to someone who sees organizing as categorizing and putting things in boxes.
• From such a person’s point of view, “I just put everything in one place in a jumble without organizing it.
• On the other hand, those who are used to “organizing” using search perceive those who categorize as “playing inefficient organizers by dragging out physical images.

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