Tech

The thing I want most

Looking for an project? I want a 'find' tool for books.

I know I've read something - it'll be in a book somewhere on the shelves of my house - but I can't for the life of me put my finger on it. I can remember enough context to help software locate the text but I don't recall the book it was in.

Maybe it'll come to me later, but for now I'll just be scratching my head.

This is why I tend to type rather than write these days. I love seeing a page of hand-written text, but until I can search through notebooks and journals I'll punch all I might want to remember into a machine that will let me retrieve it.

(But if you hack together a solution, be sure to let me know.)