Hacker News Reader

I used this for a while approximately 15 years ago. It was excellent and while I was composing an email it would find things in my history that were useful to the conversation. Alas, I can no longer do all email and web browsing in Emacs. I really wish such a thing existed for Mail.app in OS X.

It's to bad that this doesn't run as a daemon that can simply be queried through an API. Back in the day I remember a linux project called ... dashboard? (found it! http://nat.org/dashboard/) That seemed like a great tool. For whatever it got scrapped and it's guts turned into Beagle. Since I no longer use linux on the desktop it's hard for me to evaluate, but it looks like it's now a tool similar to OSX's Spotlight.

So this is GNU Clippy? (As description of what this does)

No, Clippy didn't search through your documents to recommend things relevant to what you're writing or looking at. This is a lot more interesting.

The Remembrance Agent