2/3 of these Perosnal Information Management tools were featured on a recent "my desktop" set up from noted command-line user Hund[1]. Bunch of other great console tools here too, if folks are interested.
Makes me think a bit of one of the original-ganger XML namespaces, pim/space[2]. Spaces for your personal information management. There are very old threads for this, going way back.
I'd say Atom Publishing Protocol came close. We think of Atom as an RSS competitor, but it was part of a broader general information organization & manipulation effort with Atom Publishing Protocol, which included more about ways to manage & append & write information, into feeds, which existed in collections, across workspaces[3].
Tim Berners-Lee is still hard at work, trying to distill out a useful, general means of wrangling one's & other's information. The team seems to have just released Inrupt, their implementation of the Solid specifications for linked data[4]. Which is helping power some of the latest BBC & NHS & NatWest (a bank) systems[5].
Personally I think Personal Information Management is a wonderful white whale for folks to chase. We can land it, & it will make a huge difference to all if we do. As for where we are now, I rather enjoy the JSON-LD & SOLID & Linked-Data world, think there are great specs there, for building better general systems atop, and hope we can start to rebalance some of the questions of control over computing & data with these more general systems.
Makes me think a bit of one of the original-ganger XML namespaces, pim/space[2]. Spaces for your personal information management. There are very old threads for this, going way back.
I'd say Atom Publishing Protocol came close. We think of Atom as an RSS competitor, but it was part of a broader general information organization & manipulation effort with Atom Publishing Protocol, which included more about ways to manage & append & write information, into feeds, which existed in collections, across workspaces[3].
Tim Berners-Lee is still hard at work, trying to distill out a useful, general means of wrangling one's & other's information. The team seems to have just released Inrupt, their implementation of the Solid specifications for linked data[4]. Which is helping power some of the latest BBC & NHS & NatWest (a bank) systems[5].
Personally I think Personal Information Management is a wonderful white whale for folks to chase. We can land it, & it will make a huge difference to all if we do. As for where we are now, I rather enjoy the JSON-LD & SOLID & Linked-Data world, think there are great specs there, for building better general systems atop, and hope we can start to rebalance some of the questions of control over computing & data with these more general systems.
[1] https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2020/11/13/my-desktop-november...
[2] https://www.w3.org/ns/pim/space
[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023#section-8.1
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25211816
[5] https://money.yahoo.com/nhs-data-creator-sir-tim-110816726.h...