[grifter]

Reminds me of the original version of greplin, which became cue, which shutdown [1] after failure to acquire funding/achieve profit:

> Cue started out as Greplin, a search startup that indexed all of a person’s online social content off Facebook, Gmail and Twitter. Last year they pivoted and launched a personal assistant app called Cue, that turned a person’s e-mails, contacts and files into a daily agenda with key items like restaurant reservations and flight confirmations.

- [1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/02/cue-greplin/

[seltzered_]

Thought the same thing. Another startup that came to mind was Atlas Informatics https://twitter.com/discoveratlas (defunct as of oct. 2017 - https://www.geekwire.com/2017/atlas-informatics-shut-pulling... )

[skinnymuch]

Yep thought of them and also the predecessor to the now defunct Newton Mail. Magic-something. I ended up not using them as much as I liked the idea.

[CPLX]

I was a huge fan of the initial versions of Greplin, used it all the time. It sort of got steadily worse as it went sadly.

A simple and effective update/replacement of the concept is a solid idea. Though in fairness search is not nearly as annoying as it used to be, most phones and OS broad search functions can handle quite a bit of the use case.