The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/science-managing-our-digital-stuff|title=The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff|publisher=MIT Press|language=en|access-date=2019-02-07}} 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.{{Cite book|url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3036068|title=The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff|last=Bergman|first=Ofer|last2=Whittaker|first2=Steve|date=2016|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262035170|edition=1st}} It has three parts: Personal Information Management: The Curation Perspective, Hierarchical Folders and Their Alternatives, and The User-Subjective Approach to PIM Systems Design.{{Cite journal|title=Reviews: The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff|journal=American Archivist|doi=10.17723/0360-9081-81.1.233|first=Dorothy|last=Waugh|date=2018|volume=81|issue=1|pages=233–237|doi-access=free}}

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.{{Cite journal|title=Book Review: The Science of Managing our Digital Stuff.|journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology|doi=10.1002/asi.23870|date=December 2017|first=William|last=Jones|volume=68|issue=12|pages=2834–2840 }} 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.