1. A computer implemented system for facilitating in situ search for active note taking, comprising the following components stored in a computer readable storage medium and executable by a processor: a gesture discernment component that receives a gesture from an input device identifying at least one inked handwritten script and recognizes the gesture as belonging to a set of previously persisted gestures; an embeddable object component that associates an embeddable graphical object with the at least one inked handwritten script, the embeddable graphical object being associated with recognized query text and/or a number of results returned in response to the recognized query text and additional embeddable graphical objects, the additional embeddable graphical objects being associated with disparate functions; a tracking menu comprising: a scroll ring that receives pseudo-circular motion from the input device and translates the motion into vertical or horizontal scrolling in a focus application of a system manager window; a capture tool that allows a user to circumscribe an area of a display; a close box that dismisses the tracking menu; and a move handle for dragging the tracking menu to a new position, the tracking menu providing cross application functionality between disparate applications; a handwriting digital conversion component that digitizes and analyzes the at least one inked handwritten script; and a search component that instantiates a search to return results using the digitized and analyzed at least one inked handwritten script, the results coupled with the embeddable graphical object.