What if you could catalogue you’re entire life, every book that you’ve read, every person you’ve met, pictures of every moment. The ultimate personal information manager is what I would call it and other people are working on it right now. I am across Haystack, being developed by MIT, sometime last year but haven’t heard much about it recently. More recently I found [Onlife|http://www.ethomaz.com/onlife], a Mac application which is on the right path, and they have a page of research on the topic which may be interesting to some.
Other links:
*http://www.ethomaz.com/onlife/
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
*http://www.sigmm.org/Members/jgemmell/CARPE
*http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/
*http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/