Saving Your Digital Past, Present, and Future: A Step-by-Step Guide

This book provides a concise guide to managing your digital life, covering topics such as collecting, storing, and preserving personal information, as well as using tools for organizing and sharing it. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how to manage your digital information to prevent loss and ensure the longevity of your data.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 15 July 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Today, we collect and store an ever-increasing volume of digital personal information on convenient portable devices, creating substantial amounts of personal textual and visual digital information on our personal computers. We have become accustomed to using a variety of tools that involve interactive social activities. Because of social media, there is a vast amount of user-generated content related to all aspects of our lives, and there is no way for creators to save it all. Valuable content ranging from personal notes to photos to medical information may be lost.

Because we may lose so much information, it is helpful to find out as much as we can about how we can manage our personal digital information. This book is a primer to preventing that loss. Here is an introduction to Personal Information Management (PIM) intended for a lay audience. The basic premise is that everyone needs to manage their digital information. This book introduces readers to the kinds of tools people most commonly use today. It will also consider the pros and cons of each of these tools. This book covers the concepts associated with preserving and managing personal digital information. Visual and textual examples illustrate how to use best practices to ensure the longevity of information, while considering current solutions to the problems associated with personal information loss.

The book is a detailed guide to the steps involved in managing information and images of all kinds:
1. Receiving: This involves receiving digital information from various sources, such as email, social media, or cloud storage. It is important to ensure that the information is received securely and to verify its authenticity before using it.
2. Generating: This involves creating personal digital information, such as text documents, images, videos, or audio files. It is important to ensure that the information is created using high-quality software and to back it up regularly to prevent loss.
3. Keeping: This involves storing personal digital information on a storage device, such as a hard drive, USB drive, or cloud storage. It is important to ensure that the information is stored securely and to regularly back it up to prevent loss.
4. Using: This involves using personal digital information to perform various tasks, such as editing, sharing, or collaborating on projects. It is important to ensure that the information is used securely and to follow best practices for protecting personal information.
5. Organizing: This involves organizing personal digital information into categories and folders to make it easier to find and access. It is important to ensure that the information is organized in a way that is logical and easy to maintain.
6. Re-finding: This involves re-finding personal digital information that has been lost or deleted. It is important to use backup and recovery tools to recover the information and to ensure that the information is backed up regularly to prevent future loss.
7. Sharing: This involves sharing personal digital information with others, such as family, friends, or colleagues. It is important to ensure that the information is shared securely and to follow best practices for protecting personal information.

Most of us dont know how to prevent information loss; this book introduces tools that will ensure the longevity of our digital lives. By following these steps, we can better manage our personal digital information and prevent the loss of valuable information that can have a significant impact on our lives.

Weight: 168g
Dimension: 220 x 154 x 7 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538171134