Patent ID: 8584022

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing a set of instructions for a general purpose computer having access to storage for computer files organized in a general folder structure, such files comprising (a) files generated by executable application programs that generate various kinds of application files and (b) application type files, the computer providing a computing environment via a user interface comprising an input responsive to user commands and a display capable of displaying the computer files in the general folder structure, the computer-readable storage medium further comprising: code for displaying and manipulating in response to user commands or communication with an email server different kinds of application type files within said general folder structure, said general folder structure having one or more activity folders; code for storing communication files within said general folder structure, wherein a communication file comprises one or more application type files; code for automatically associating the individual application type files comprising a communication with each other; code for visibly annotating the communication, or any of the application type files comprising the communication, with information about its one or more communications, and displaying the annotation information within the display of the general folder structure, wherein the annotation information includes whether the communication or file was sent or received, names of senders and recipients of the file, time of the file, and date and time the file was sent and received; code for saving any new file created with any application accessible to the user's computing environment into any activity folder within the general folder structure; and code for manipulating computer files within the activity folders, thereby allowing a user to group and organize subjectively related files of various application types within any of said activity folders, including grouping files which are associated with communications together with files which are not associated with communications within any of said activity folders.