An interesting approach might be remembrance agents, from
http://www.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/RA/
Remembrance Agents are a set of applications that watch over a
user's shoulder and suggest information relevant to the
current situation. While query-based memory aids help with
direct recall, remembrance agents are an augmented associative
memory. For example, the word-processor version of the RA
continuously updates a list of documents relevant to what's
being typed or read in an emacs buffer. These suggested
documents can be any text files that might be relevant to what
you are currently writing or reading. They might be old emails
related to the mail you are currently reading, or abstracts
from papers and newspaper articles that discuss the topic of
your writing.
Has anyone tried this? It's released under GNU but requires emacs
which I'm not familiar with :-(
Patrick.
