8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the contextual search is performed automatically responsive to the application receiving the text.
1. A method comprising: at a computing device, receiving digital-ink data on a user interface including multiple icons associated with applications available for launch on the computing device, the received digital-ink data overlapping with only a first icon of the multiple icons; associating the digital-ink data with the first icon for which the digital-ink data overlaps; determining text based on the digital-ink data; launching an application associated with the first icon; and using the launched application, performing a contextual search using the text.