Patent ID: 7823078

Claim:
A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: displaying business data on a user interface through which users can view the business data and provide input modifying the business data, the business data comprising a plurality of business objects, the user interface including a plurality of views that do not contain pre-defined user interface elements for displaying notes; receiving one or more first user inputs from a particular view that displays one or more business objects, each first user input requesting creation of a note and specifying the contents of the note to be created; in response to each of the first user inputs, creating a note, binding the note to one of the business objects, and making the note accessible from the particular view and also from any other view that displays the business object bound to the note; receiving a second user input selecting one of the notes; and in response to the second user input, navigating from the selected note to the business object bound to the selected note.