Grokker gives you an easy way to delve in to a data set, and it often leads to info-revelations.

Grokker takes the data culled by an online search and organizes it visually into categories that enable you to quickly dig deeply to find the exact site or information you need. The application that works on top of many different databases, including the all-important Google.

sounds like someone finally grasped some key issues with data mining for ordinary humans. Now, I want it to have the ability to do the same thing for my files.

We're talking about a personal knowledge manager now, but, as we start filling up our 40, 80, 120 gig drives, we're gonna get more and more lost in that data sea. I already have trouble finding things, and i try to follow a relatively strict hierarchical model (which has it's own problems...). Broad support for proprietary file formats is a stumbling point here, as are binary data (music, movies, images), but the future of your "desktop" is a smart interface to your data... semantically indexed and organized and available within one query and a click. maybe groxis will lead us there?

[edit] They should try to steal less from Aqua for their web site, by the way, especially since they don't even have a MacOS version yet.

also, Java? It's possible that this is one of the 2% of Java programs that aren't infuriatingly slow, but, i have my doubts.