Automatic data retrieval system based on context-traversal history

A method for retrieving an object associated with a previously traversed context for use in a current context, the method comprising:

• identifying a transferable object in a first context while the user is operating in the first context;
• automatically storing in memory, without user involvement, information used to retrieve the transferable object;
• accessing the automatically stored information in order to copy the transferable object to an object receptor in a second context while the user operates in the second context;
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• storing a marker in the memory to signify an end of a first historical period associated with the first context and a start of a second historical period associated with the second context, to associate the transferable object identified in the first context with the first historical period, and to separate the information automatically stored in the memory in the first historical period from information automatically stored in the memory in the second historical period, thereby recording a history of context traversals by the user that includes a traversal from the first context to the second context.