1. A computer-implemented method of providing a personal search agent enabling a user to search for electronic documents that the user has previously accessed regardless of the location of the electronic documents, the method comprising: monitoring one or more of a plurality of electronic documents previously accessed by the user for one or more predetermined events; automatically converting each of the monitored electronic documents into a common format for creating an index of said monitored electronic documents, wherein an index entry that comprises content data found within each of said monitored electronic documents is created for each of said monitored electronic documents by searching one or more browser caches and intercepting one or more commands to access one or more applications regardless of the location of said monitored electronic documents; and providing a graphical user interface enabling said user to enter one or more keywords to create a search query to be used to search said index, and wherein in response to receiving and executing said search query, presenting said search results including at least some content data from said index as text and using one or more graphical displays.