Re: Remembrance Agents

[Gerardo Moro]

Thanks! I get an idea. Will try to use soon and let you know.

Thanks for the links, very helpful.

Question: when you say it uses emails, can it read any email database (I have old ones from Microsoft outlook both Mac and Windows)? What if you only use webmail, in which format shall you feed the RA?

Thanks

El dom, 29 nov 2020 a las 15:52, Eric S Fraga (<e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>) escribió:

On Sunday, 29 Nov 2020 at 15:07, Gerardo Moro wrote:
> Has somebody installed it and tried it? It would be great to have a
> screen recording demo.

I've used it on and off in the past, within the past 2 years most
recently.  I populate the database it uses with both emails and org
files.  While writing, it shows lines from documents that match in a
separate window (whose size can be customized).

It does work but I find that I tend to forget about the remembrance
window most of the time so eventually I turn it off.  I never seem to
have enough screen real estate to justify its use (despite having 38"
and 27" monitors side by side on my desk ;-)).

There was a blog post early this year on this topic [1] which you might
find interesting.  It talks mostly about recoll [2] which is not so much
a remembrance agent but a search tool

HTH,
eric

Footnotes:
[1]  https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/remembrance_agents/

[2]  https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

--
: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4-143-g9a1549