Have you amassed a collection of photos and other media without quite knowing how to manage it? Have you been spent hours trying to locate a precious or extremely important file? Have you ever wished you’d backed up your files after a computer crash?

More and more of our work and personal content is digital. And mobile, digital technologies like cameraphones are changing the nature of capture and collection - of what and how we collect. We are living in a world of continuous accumulation.

This is relatively new. Ten years ago, fewer people had home computers, fewer services existed, and we weren’t surrounded by all those appealing, shiny devices that promise to record our every action in case we want to take a step down memory lane, or revisit an article written a while back to snaffle some useful content. Back then, terms like “lifelogging” and “moblogging” were not in common parlance…