CHI 09- Lightweight Tagging

The paper explores the use of tagging in the setting of a personal computer. Using tagging to support new ways of working with and accessing applications and documents. They created an application which runs within Windows that supports the generic tagging of applications and documents. They collected data across a group of users who used the system on their work computers to help with their jobs. They found that the tags were particularly useful when working with information from diverse data stores and that users were able to create new types of data organizations which bridge folder systems and document types.

Thoughts

The idea of being able to tag items in my work computer seems useful. Maybe this same concept could be used in a IDE to tag files or specific methods. Then you could easily pull up a small specific working set of code.