Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to personal history recall, for a received user input, through contextual analysis of user data associated with user usage of applications/services. Examples described herein extend functionality of and enable a virtual assistant to provide efficient and accurate recall processing even in instances where a user provides vague or general description. An exemplary virtual assistant is configured to process user input received through any modality. A virtual assistant is programmed with a skill for custom search processing that adapts operation of the virtual assistant. An exemplary skill for custom search processing provides a layer of intelligence over raw application data to enable the virtual assistant to match user input to a previous context in which a user was executing an application/service. Contextual search ranking and filtering factors in access to content and user activity when evaluating a user input such as a spoken utterance.
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