1. A system implemented on a machine that effectuates in situ search for active note taking, comprising: a component that receives a gesture from an input device, recognizes the gesture as belonging to a set of previously persisted gestures, associates a persistable and embeddable object with scribed terms identified by the gesture, and based on the gesture instantiates a search facility to return results using terms identified by the gesture, the results confederated with the embeddable object.