It sounds like you are proposing that I word my documents to fit with future searches for it? That sounds rather backwards…

Also, how does that help with video, audio or images? Or text that you don’t really have control of yourself, like chats, web pages, etc.

If you talk with people who work with search, they’ll quickly explain that it’s extremely difficult to have a search engine make *good* guesses based on content. The biggest search engines in the world with all their computing power are not even getting it right, so where does that leave a little old laptop or netbook?

Of course, full text search and search in meta information is a large part of the desktop paradigm that Zeitgeist and Tracker is setting up to handle.

The things I’m discussing is meant to be a tool to help you. If you have a tool available, and choose not to use it, that’s totally your call. My view is that when I really need to find all the items that belong to project X, I don’t plan on refining my searches for half a day.

A final note: There’s a lot more to Zeitgeist than what is addressed in this short first part of an overview, so you might find something that will appeal to you.