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About Infomato^® , Inc.

INFOMATO^® , Inc. was incorporated in California, USA in 2005. Click here to see our online record in the California Business Portal.

We're located in the Silicon Valley, California.
Email: contact@infomato.com

About the inventor and founder: Dr. Wayne Lo

About INFOMATO featured in the World Journal (世界日報)

About organizing unstructured data:
“The management of unstructured data is recognized as one of the major unsolved problems in the information technology (IT) industry… white collar workers will spend anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of their time this year managing documents.” –Robert Blumberg in DM Review.

“Longhorn (now Microsoft Vista OS) will … focus on organization and offering users more ways to view their documents...”, said Microsoft VP Goldberg in 2005-"Longhorn organizes against Google", InfoWorld.

“Microsoft may have a keen interest in search, but its next-generation Windows operating system looks to be more of a threat to super-organized executive assistants than to Google…”-"Will Longhorn Try to Rival Google", IDG News Service,2005.

"Well, we now know Vista failed to deliver a breakthrough in organizing data so they refocused on search. Infomato, however, delivered an organizing breakthrough by creating a platform for organizing unstructured, scattered data."-Dr. Wayne Lo, Founder of Infomato, Inc. in 2007.

About the invention of Magic Folders Concept:  Please view Flash video
The concept of flexible folder tree (vs. conventional fixed hierarchy folder tree) technology was inspired through years of trying to solve information headaches encountered by Dr. Lo. While he was managing a small team of scientists and engineers in Applied Materials and Schlumberger Technologies, and before that when he was doing research at Cornell University and the University of California at Riverside, Dr. Lo needed to organize messy information that was buried in files, emails and online. These types of information were often unstructured (too versatile to be classified by database) and interrelated. Dr. Lo needed to see information in emails, files and online organized according to the immediate needs. For instance, a project might be assigned to several people and one person might be involved in several projects. When Dr. Lo talked to his boss, he often needed to view information from project views. But when he met up with one specific employee, he liked to see the status of all projects involving this person. He tried many off-the-shelf solutions and even learned how to program Microsoft Access (a layman's database), but none of them met the requirements of organizing unstructured and interrelated data. Dr. Lo, an experienced inventor, recognized a great opportunity for discovering a fundamental invention after gaining deep insight into this problem and seeing no ideal solution in the market.

Many people are not clear about the differences between search and organizing when dealing with computer information. You need both to survive in the information era. Search is for finding the missing pieces in your big picture (puzzle). Where do you get the big picture from? From organization. Where do you store your organization? That is where INFOMATO comes in. In more detail, search means you are looking for something specific. Search becomes ineffective when you are not specific; it often brings in piles of information for you to sort and filter. During the sorting and filtering process, you slowly regain the memory back and reconstruct the organization in your head. This is ineffective and very frustrating when you have done the same search before and you forgot how specifically you found it the first time. The INFOMATO solution is ideal for anyone who needs to be reminded of the organization when dealing with a volume of versatile, messy information every day.

Currently only two tools are available tools for dealing with organizing unstructured data (if not including your brain). One is the conventional folder tree system. But the folder tree system cannot deal with the interrelationship between folders. The other tool is tagging, but tagging is not good for organizing. Tagging is more of a search tool that lets you assign tags for personal search terms instead of relying on the search engine's automatic keywords gathering.

The search for the Holy Grail in dealing with our cluttered, overwhelmed computer information is indeed to be found in the neighborhood of the conventional folder tree system. We are already familiar with laying out an organization tree that reflects our thought pattern and dropping files into it. We just need to fix its shortcoming. INFOMATO's innovative technology is similar to the conventional folder system but allow you to see the folders reorganize on-the-fly for your immediate perspective (flexible folder tree). It is therefore filling the void of the conventional folder tree system that is unable to deal with interrelationships between folders. The other challengence in dealing with the conventional folder tree is not knowing how to structure the folder tree when information is arriving in pieces. Infomato's technology will automatically connect them together to form the tree for your immediate perspective as long as you provide the personal meanings for each of the information pieces.

INFOMATO lets you organize interrelated, unstructured data scattered in your emails, files/folders and online. It also provides an effective electronic notebook that is well integrated into this flexible folder system. You already have a good start because you are familiar with folder systems. You will need to learn about the new user interface and practice to "think flexibly" in order to benefit. If you have the burning needs in this area and are an early adopter, you should not pass up this opportunity. INFOMATO will help you dramatically reduce your information burden, increase your efficiency and allow your to see your cluttered information self organize.