PERSONALIZED CONTEXTUAL MENU FOR INSERTING CONTENT IN A CURRENT APPLICATION

According to aspects of the disclosed subject matter, systems and methods for providing improved access to content accessible outside of the current execution context. On a computing device, an intelligent canvas is provided as an operating system-level service. By implementing and/or providing the intelligent canvas as an operating system-level service, interaction by a user with the intelligent canvas does not require a change from the current execution context. Upon receiving a request to interact with the intelligent canvas, an intelligent canvas view is presented for display. The intelligent canvas view includes a plurality of user-actionable controls and at least one user-actionable control corresponds to content for importing into the current execution context. Moreover, the corresponding content of the at least one user-actionable control is anticipatorily selected for presentation in the intelligent canvas view.