Dashboard and Remembrance Agent
I stumbled on this Dashboard project last week somehow. From the blurb:
The goal of the dashboard is to automatically show a user useful files and other objects as he goes about his day. While you read email, browse the web, write a document, or talk to your friends on IM, the dashboard does its best to proactively find objects that are relevant to your current activity, and to display them in a friendly way, saving you from digging around through your stuff like a disorganized filing clerk.This is apparently similar to the emacs Remembrance Agent. Hmm… I wonder if this could be rigged up to present a user with relevant bibliographic records as they author? In an ideal world, does it really make any sense that you have to stop writing, go to another application, type in a search term, etc., etc.? What if those records were simply available you needed them?
