Methods and systems for organizing information

摘要

Embodiments are directed towards organizing heterogeneous information items as nodes within a graph structure and/or a category, where each information item is implemented as a folder and each information item may be in more than one folder. An information management application residing within a computing device enables a user to integrate various information items of various types and sources using a many-to-many relationship for each information item. Information items include notes, events, contacts, geo-coordinates, hyperlinks such as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and messages (including emails, text messages). The application further allows the user to perform a variety of activities on the structure(s) and the information items, including, but not limited to creating an information item, creating one or more structures or relationship between information items, managing various views of the structure(s), and modifying the structure(s).

主权项

1. A computing device for managing content, comprising:
a non-transitory memory device configured to store data and computer-executable instructions; and a processor that is configured to employ the computer-executable instructions to perform actions of an organizer system, including:
displaying a graphical user-interface (GUI) on a display of the computing device;providing access, through the GUI, to a plurality of information items, wherein at least one information item is of a different type than another information item in the plurality of information items, and wherein at least a type of at least one of the plurality of information items corresponds to a native application;associating relationships between at least some of the plurality of information items using at least one of a graph structure or a category, wherein each information item within the graph structure is a node within the graph structure, and is further configured to operate as a folder;when a parent node having at least one child node associated with the information item type that corresponds to the native application is selected for ordering by a user or the computing device, persistently ordering the at least one child node in regard to the parent node within the graph structure, wherein the parent node is enabled to have at least one of heterogeneous or homogenous children, and wherein a change in the GUI for the at least one selected child node is also separately performed with the corresponding native application; anddisplaying through the GUI at least a portion of the relationships within the graph structure or the category.