The Goo Trail

At the core of The Goo is a "trail". A trail is the path you leave behind when you traverse Things in your programming environment. The idea of a trail is inspired by the "Memex" (a device conceived in 1945 by Vannevar Bush). This was also the inspiration behind Trexy a trailblazing search engine.

Every action you take while using The Goo is stored in a trail. But why is this useful?
The Goo trail:

• stores temporal associations between Things.
• helps answer the question, what else was I working on when I last accessed this Thing?
• provides a working context of Things that you are currently juggling. Your current mental working 'zone' is the tail of the trail.
• preserves your programming memory for later retrieval by yourself or others