Title
Self-Es: The Role of Emails-to-Self in Personal Information Management.
Abstract
Email has been central to online communication for the past two decades. Through constant use, new information flows are being defined around users' interactions with emails. Alongside traditional messages, the email inbox is an always-available repository of to-do lists, reminders, files and notes. In this paper, we investigate the use of self-addressed emails (self-Es) as an information management tool, by analysing both: (i) responses to a survey about email use; and (ii) a collection of user donated self-addressed emails. Our results show that sending self-Es is a frequent behaviour among the users we questioned. In addition, we find that to-dos and reminders are the most popular type of information contained in emails-to-self. Our findings have direct implications for the development of systems that support novel interactions with information flows centred around email.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3020165.3020189
CHIIR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Personal information management, email search
World Wide Web,Information management,Internet privacy,HTML email,Personal information management,Email search,Email address harvesting,Computer science,Opt-in email
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Horatiu Bota1343.00
Paul N. Bennett2150087.93
Ahmed Hassan394357.64
Susan Dumais4139482130.47