Patent ID: 7472357

Claim:
A method for managing a list comprising at least one item, the method comprising: displaying each of the items in the list; displaying adjacent to each item in the list a user interface control for flagging the adjacent item, the user interface control comprising a visual display for indicating to a user at least one of a plurality of predetermined and different flags associated with the item, wherein the visual display for indicating to a user at least one of a plurality of predetermined and different flags associated with the item comprises items not flagged, items flagged by the user, and items flagged by another user, wherein the visual display indicating items flagged by the user and items flagged by another user appearing different to the user; receiving a first selection of the user interface control corresponding to an item in the list; in response to the first selection, modifying the visual display to indicate that the item associated with the selected user interface control has been flagged with one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags and setting a property of the item associated with the selected user interface control to a flagged state indicating one of the plurality of predetermined and different flags.