Jon Udell gives a nice review/context (and some nice "real" screenshots) for ZoE. *Along with the directory of names, [ZOË] has organized all of the [URLs] that appear in my [Info World]-related EMail messages. This would be even more interesting if those [URLs] were named descriptively, but of course, that's a hard thing to do. Alternatively, [ZOË] could spider those [URLs] and produce a view offering contextual summaries of them. We don't normally think of desktop applications doing things like that, but [ZOË] (like Google) is really a service, working all the time, toiling in ways that computers should and people shouldn't... Most of the correlations I perform manually, using Ms Outlook folders, could be inferred by a hypothetical version of [ZOË] that would group messages based on matching content in their bodies as well as in their headers, then generate titles for these groups by summarizing them... GooGle and, now, [ZOË] remind us that we can still add plenty of value to the poorly-structured stuff that we write every day. It's a brute-force strategy, to be sure, but isn't that why we have these 2GHz personal computers?*

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