A *(user interface) and an Information Retrieval system for the average computer _(user).

Slogans from _("Overview"|http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/overview.html):

<ul>
  <li>Information in One Place</li>
  <li>Right Click on Anything</li>
  <li>Work with Information, Not Programs</li>
  <li>Drag and Drop</li>
  <li>E-mail and Instant Messaging Together at Last</li>
  <li>Personal Digital Library</li>
</ul>

Excerpts from _("Design Principles"|http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/overview0.html):

<blockquote>
Haystack is a system designed to improve the way people manage all the information they work with on a day to day basis. Haystack exhibits a number of improvements over current information management approaches:

<ol>
  <li><strong>Genericity</strong>. Haystack incorporates and exposes all types of information in a single, coherent manner. [..]</li>
  <li><strong>Flexibility</strong>. The data types Haystack understands are not hard-wired; any additional types of information that a user wants to work with can be easily incorporated. [..]</li>
  <li><strong>User-Object Orientedness</strong>. Haystack breaks down the artificial barriers created by giving distinct applications responsibility for different data types. Instead, Haystack attempts to match a users own focus on objects in view and what can be done with them. [..]</li>
</ol>

<strong>The breaking down of application barriers is very useful</strong>. [..]
</blockquote>

<ul class="links">
  <li>_("Haystack Home"|http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/index.html).</li>
</ul>
