{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/save-information-for-a-future-job-not-because-it-is-interesting",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0687",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Save information for a future job, not because it is interesting",
  "summary": "Keeping has a cost, so give it a future need.",
  "kind": "concept",
  "body": "Before saving, name one plausible future job: make a decision, perform a task, explain a concept, verify a claim, contact someone or continue a project. If you cannot name a use and the source is easy to rediscover, consider not keeping it.",
  "limits": [
    "Serendipitous collections can have value; this rule is for operational knowledge systems, not for eliminating curiosity or cultural collecting."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-personal-knowledge-refinding-and-maintenance"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Personal information management research frames the job as a lifecycle of acquiring or creating, keeping, organizing, maintaining, finding or re-finding, using and distributing information in support of future needs.",
      "source_id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The lifecycle is descriptive and does not prescribe one folder, tagging or note-taking system.",
      "locator": "Abstract and overview"
    },
    {
      "claim": "PIM research emphasizes a mapping between information and anticipated or current need: keeping moves from information toward a future need, while finding moves from need toward information.",
      "source_id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "People cannot predict every future use, so keeping rules should be lightweight and revisable.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Your notes, bookmarks and downloads grow faster than anything gets reused."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Serendipitous collections can have value; this rule is for operational knowledge systems, not for eliminating curiosity or cultural collecting."
  ],
  "example": "A useful tax table is saved with 'needed for annual filing comparison'; a generic article you can easily search again is not duplicated into the system.",
  "check": "Most kept items have a stated anticipated use or a clear reason preservation matters.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "title": "Personal Information Management",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03291"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0687",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0688",
      "type": "use_before",
      "url": "/knowledge/write-one-retrieval-cue-in-the-title"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-5086A3A5AA1D243D",
      "title": "Keep knowledge so you can find, trust and reuse it later",
      "url": "/collections/keep-knowledge-so-you-can-find-trust-and-reuse-it-later"
    }
  ]
}