Remembrance Agent

A plugin for Lisp which constantly displays suggestions of material which might be relevant to the current context (a la Context-aware computing).

Q. What are the sources used?
A. Email, notes files

Q. How does RA handle scope for the query?
A. Offers three user-customizable scopes: last 10, 50, 1000 words around the cursor.

The authors suggest that atomic documents (Evergreen notes should be atomic) work better as suggestions because:

1. They’re more likely to be legible as one-liners.
2. They’re more likely to be a good hit.
3. If the user needs to open the suggested document, they can peruse it quickly.

   References

   Rhodes, B. J., & Starner, T. (1996). Remembrance Agent: A Continuously Running Automated Information Retrieval System.