Problems and Strategies in Preserving and Managing InformationConservationEvery human being preserves or stores information. Some keep their information organized, others don't. People are confronted with enormous amounts of information every day, too much to store it all. There are various costs that prevent us from storing all the information we receive. The more information we keep, the more management it takes to keep all the information organized. Information must be organized in a way that people can derive value from it. As with management, operation also represents a cost linked to the storage of all available information. Low-value information should not be retained because it only makes the process of finding information more difficult. Keeping a massive amount of items can be distracting when manual searching is used to find the relevant information. People acquire large amounts of information daily, such as emails, bookmarks, contacts, photos, etc. and must decide which ones to keep and which ones. are irrelevant and should be eliminated. But people have difficulty making the decision to keep or delete information. One theory that people prefer to retain information is because it might prove useful in the future. Knowing what information to keep and what information to dispose of requires determining the future value of the information. Determining the future value of information is difficult because humans try to reason about hypothetical situations in which they are very poor*. The decision to retain or delete potential future information is subject to two types of errors. kept and is not available when needed and keeping irrelevant information can make a person feel guilty about being disorganized. The world moves away from paper and becomes...... middle of paper ...... This process is often repeated. Users have problems processing informational messages. Observations have shown that people spend a lot of time trying to organize these messages. A possible solution could be to create folders for informational messages, but creating dedicated folders for informational messages is difficult for several reasons. Generating records requires considerable effort and filing is cognitively difficult. Successful classification of informative information depends heavily on the user's ability to know whether they will need their information in the future. Web information is largely not actionable but informative. One form of management is to bookmark certain web pages. Other strategies include printing pages, sending links in their email, copying links to documents, generating sticky notes, or using cognitive memory..