Quick drafts of items in a primary work queue

摘要

Techniques disclosed herein facilitate the use of the primary work queue within an information management application as a centralized access point for creating and viewing multiple types of new draft items such as a note, to-do, or message item. An information management application can receive a new item request through its user interface and initiate a new draft item in response to the new item request. A view of new draft item can then be surfaced in a primary work queue of the information management application. The item type of the new draft item may be different than other item types in the primary work queue.

主权项

1. A method of operating information management applications, the method comprising:
receiving a new item request through a user interface to an information management application executed on a computing device; displaying, at a screen of the computing device, a primary work queue of the information management application, wherein the primary work queue comprises a list of item types that can be sorted by date and time; initiating, at the computing device, a new draft item in response to the new item request, wherein the initiating the new draft item includes providing a graphical user interface for composing the new draft item; determining an item type of the new draft item; providing at least one item-specific functionality for the new draft item based on the item type of the new draft item; and upon creating the new draft item, surfacing, at the screen of the computing device, a view of the new draft item at the top of the list of item types that can be sorted by date and time in the primary work queue of the information management application.