Everything in one place

I was searching my Gmail today for message I'd received and couldn't find it. It turned out the message had been received as a text message to my phone, so I was looking in the wrong place. This highlights the need for further integration of information and communications technologies. I need everything in one place. Everything. Absolutely everything. The personal digital life aggregator.

And I need to be able to search it.

This includes:

• documents (the kind we typically have stored on our hard drives, but soon to be stored in the cloud) (text, image, sound, video, etc)
• emails
• calendar
• voicemails (with transcription)
• text messages
• blog posts
• forum posts
• data from apps on my phone (e.g. my to do list)
• rss feeds
• articles I've read
• web favorites/bookmarks
• bank statements, bills, pension, investments, etc

The key barriers to the everything in one place dream are:

• company security policies will prevent your content from work being in your personal "one place"
• closed online systems that don't allow a metasystem to pull it all together
• content that's not owned by one person (e.g. a photo taken by one person, but tagged by another; or a collaboratively produced presentation)