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24  Computers are supposed to be "information technology,"  Computers are supposed to be "information technology,"
25  to help you to keep your information organized. But  to help you to keep your information organized. But
26  we still have no good **tools** to help us **remember** our tasks,  we still have no sufficiently good **tools** commonly available to help us
27  ideas and obligations; no tools to **organize what we know**  
28  about a thing, so that we can **understand** it better;  - remember our tasks, ideas and obligations
29  no tools to **structure our thoughts**; no tools,  
30  when grappling with our problems today,  - organize what we know about a thing, so that we can understand it better
31  to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear.  
32    - when grappling with our problems today, to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear.
33  We need a computer that helps us keep track of addresses,  
34  appointments, birthdays, budgets, employees, phone calls,  - structure our thoughts
35  courses we have taken, marks we got,  
36  thoughts, ideas, types of poems, types of plants,  
37  classes in a program and structures in a plot.  We need a computer that helps us keep track of
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39    - "Personal information": addresses, appointments, birthdays
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41    - Ideas: thoughts, ideas, types of poems
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43    - Work: budgets, employees, phone calls, courses we have taken, marks we got, types of plants, classes in a program and structures in a plot
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45  Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery  Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery
46  abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system  abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system

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