with an email program such as for example lotus notes as illustrated several meetings 1110 are listed on calendar 1100 a user wishing to view documents related to a scheduled meeting may do so by selecting the meeting and choosing an option to search for related documents options may be provided by various ways such as for example u201c right clicking u201d on a meeting to bring up a pop up menu choosing an option from actions menu 1112 or other methods as would be apparent search criteria may also be created from an email message search criteria may include for example the title of the meeting subject of the email message keywords from the body of an email message names of meeting invitees and or other criteria desktop integration module 102 may obtain content and metadata from calendar 1100 regarding the selected meeting indexing module 104 may use the retrieved metadata and content data and compare it to the indexed data for all stored documents documents having matching content data and or metadata may be returned as being related to the selected meeting in other embodiments authors of documents may associate the document with certain meetings in some embodiments of the invention only documents accessed on the day of the meeting are retrieved while in other embodiments all accessed documents related to the meeting are returned once the user has been presented with search results the user may modify the search to more quickly find desired documents for example the user may input additional keywords use document type filters to return only documents of certain types restrict the search to one or more dates and or other search modifications according to another aspect of the invention a system may be provided enabling a.