Organizational Features

Depending on the software, the information captured needs to be organized in one way or another. Users don't just supply input only to be dumped in a large holding bin. The user doesn't want to sift through their information when they actually need to find something. Another reason users want their information organized, probably according to a schema of their own creation, is for when they don't know what they're looking for exactly. There will come a time, when you have a flash, a sudden recollection, or partial memory of something more complete. You know it exists, you just need to come across it to bring it to the forefront of your memory. In these situations of "I don't know what I'm looking for", we browse our stored information. How we browse, depends on how we organize. But organizing isn't just some trivial activity. Depending on the organizational facilities we've provided to the user, they just might overwhelm themselves.