Remembrance Agent Rocks!

People who just don't get it often make jokes about those of us who use Emacs for everything: editing files, mail, news, shell, etc. But here's a hidden benefit of using one tool for all of these functions: consolidation means that intelligent tools can be written that span all of these various activities much more easily than otherwise.

Remembrance Agent is one such tool. It's an Emacs/XEmacs program that constantly monitors what you do, building indexes of your files, and then recalling relevant things you've done while you work. So if you're writing, say, Python code and some snippets of it are similar to a piece of mail that RA say you read a year ago, it will bring that mail back up to you. It's like a memory agent for everything you do in Emacs.

I used to run RA but it was a bit buggy so I gave it up. There's a new version now, and I'm hopeful that it will be more stable.

Check it out.