October 2011
7 posts
The Information Overload Problem
Today marks the third annual celebration of Information Overload Awareness Day. Believe it or not, there are no parades in the streets, no displays commemorating the event in the greeting card section of national stores and, sadly, no closed offices granting relief to overwhelmed office warriors. It’s highly unlikely that many of the knowledge workers suffering under a deluge of emails and...
X1 Mobile Search Now FREE For Mac and PC!
Earlier today we announced a huge step forward for X1 Mobile Search. Previously, X1 Mobile Search required an installation of the X1 Professional Client on the desktop. With this latest release, X1 Mobile Search allows users to search either their PC or Mac from an iPhone or iPad, for FREE, with no installation of the X1 Professional Client required. Here is an excerpt from the press...
Is E-Hoarding Unhealthy?
Our CEO, John Waller, recently participated in a Bloomberg Businessweek debate regarding the ‘health’ of storing digital information. It probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone in the X1 community that we consider ‘e-hoarding’ to be intelligent, especially for people employing a fast retrieval tool like the X1 Professional Client! Here is the text from...
The Limits of Memory
(Originally posted May 27, 2010)
In reading Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell’s great book Total Recall, there were certain passages that struck us as directly relevant to the problems that we are trying to solve here at X1. Granted, the MyLifeBits project is a fascinating and ambitious study that we won’t try to reduce to a few words in our blog post here! Much simpler, some of the language is...
PowerPoint: Loved or Hated, But Rarely Ignored
(Originally posted May 7, 2010)
Elizabeth Bumiller’s piece in the New York Times last week, “We Have Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint”, was at one point mid-week the most read and emailed article on nytimes.com. While the focus of the article was the U.S. military’s reliance on PowerPoint, response in the comments section and throughout the blogosphere quickly shifted to a more general...
Do You Know What's in Your Inbox? Inbox Usage...
(Originally posted March 24, 2010)
According to a 2009 report from Deloitte:
“During 2009, on average office workers are expected to send more than 160 messages daily and check their inboxes more than 50 times, in all dedicating up to two hours each day to email.”
With an average of 160 message sent daily, information is becoming increasingly staggered. The days of lengthy, thought-out emails...
Kryder, Moore, and You
(Originally posted March 10, 2010)
As the world of computer and computing powers develop, they are bound by two laws that are working against your productivity. These laws allow you to save and have access to every email you ever send and every file you ever create, while eliminating the need to delete anything. The first is Moore’s law and the se cond is Kryder’s law.
Moore’s...