A guide to help you manage your information consumption, produced by a student of library and information science for other fellow information addicts.
32. Set limits Cloud storage
for yourself Filters
Tools are at your fingertips!
Note-taking Dashboards
Folders Calendars
Lists Online
Voicemail archiving
RSS feeds
33. Check out a few of these:
Diigo
Dropbox
Evernote
Google Reader
Instapaper
34. And don’t forget
the Delete button.
(Because you can probably use your awesome search
skills if you really need that information later.)
43. Plan what and when you’ll
consume your information.
Maybe some morning news over coffee.
An audiobook during the work commute.
Pass the afternoon break with Facebook.
Perhaps some homework after dinner.
61. For more information…
Braum, H. (2012, October 16). Managing professional information overload.
Retrieved from http://nekls.libguides.com/info-overload
Houghton-Jan, S. (2008, July 29). Being wired or being tired: 10 ways to cope with
information overload. Adriadne, 56. Retrieved from
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/houghton-jan
Johnson, C. A. (2012). The information diet. Retrieved from
http://www.informationdiet.com
Kirkpatrick, M. (2009, May 25). Groups: Turn information overload into an asset.
ReadWrite. Retrieved from
http://readwrite.com/2009/05/25/groups_turn_information_overload_into_an_asset
Mind Tools. (2012). The urgent/important matrix. Retrieved from
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_91.htm
Purdue University. (2012). Evaluation. Retrieved from
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/rguides/studentinstruction/evaluation
Solis, B. (2012, May 15). The fallacy of information overload. Retrieved from
http://www.briansolis.com/2012/05/the-fallacy-of-information-overload
62. Image credits
Flickr – A Conversation (Khalid Albaih)
freerangestock.com – Plug (Chance Agrella)
openclipart.com – Balanza (Enhy), Book (Janisroznieks), Dog (Drunken_Duck),
Family2 (Papapishu), Juggler Clown (sammo241), Man (AK), Pac-Man, Pause,
Woman Doctor (Gerald_G)
stockfreeimages.com – Blank note (Brentmelissa), Business woman in office
(Amaxim), Cake vs. apple (Qtrix), Calculator (Podfoto), Calendar (Miszmasz ),
Compass on the map (Photooiasson ), Delete (Lostbear), Friends sitting on the grass
(Lykovata), Graduation cap on top of book pile (Jarenwicklund), Green target and
red dart (Ghen), Hour Glass (Palto), Idea (Monika3stepsahead ), Isolated Colosseum
(Frenchmen77), Lying royal flush cards (Golovanov), Old binoculars (Kvkirillov), Set
icons - 23A. Tools (Markov), Snorkeling man (Veredinka), Stopwatch in hand
(GeoffreyWhiteway), Sunset Puzzle (Frenchmen77), Target background (Tamilsma),
Underwater reef (connelld)
Unpublished – Hands (Tyler Harms), Twitter Blur (Hope Harms)
Wikimedia Commons – Duct-tape (Evan-Amos)