[anywherenotes]

I want to search for something in one place, and find it, no matter if it's in any of my gmail accounts, yahoo email, trello, git, google docs, my home pc or work pc anywhere. Basically, search though all my personal accounts.

[ioddly]

Part of this functionality was a YC startup a while ago: https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/greplin-grabs-4-million-fr...

[brucephillips]

Does there exist a post mortem?

[bobosha]

They got acquired by apple (greplin renamed themselves cue) for a reported $40-50MM.

[brucephillips]

I was more thinking about why the product failed, assuming it did.

[brucephillips]

Can you provide a specific use case? This is one of those products that seems like a true gap, but I have trouble thinking of many real use cases.

[anywherenotes]

Sorry for late response. I usually take down notes, but don't always remember where I put them. They are usually organized into what makes sense, but if I later remember and want to go back to that topic, I may not remember where it was written down.

For example I may have an idea to do something, and that would be in google docs, but then I might have some tasks and put them into trello. By searching for the idea's name, I should be able to see both the original write up and the tasks in trello, and potentially any messages I wrote to other people about it.

[AnimalMuppet]

Add "securely" to the features for this one. Because if it's going to log on to all your accounts, it has to have names and passwords for all your accounts. If it can be compromised, the attacker gets all your stuff.

[dabockster]

Probably can't be cloud based then. I would never trust one single entity online with that much information about myself.

>inb4 Equifax

I have no control over what they do. Sad, but these are the times we live in. However, users should have control for the above idea.

[brucephillips]

Password reset functionality effectively gives this universal access to your email provider.

[craftyguy]

Not for services that enable 2fa.

[zubairq]

I am actually in the early stages of building this at visifile.com

Doesn't work over the cloud so it's secure too