Patent ID: 8074175

Claim:
A calendar system that facilitates improving activity awareness and coordination of schedules among multiple users, comprising: a computerized awareness appliance for interacting with a user interface including one or more display views of a calendar grid; an event space adjacent to the calendar grid and formatted as a customizable notepad, text data being enterable in the event space in multiple selectable input formats including writing with a writing tool and typing; one or more navigation components that facilitate dragging and dropping the text data in the form of a note from the notepad to a selected day on the calendar grid to form a calendar item, wherein: a particular word in the note entered as part of the text data is recognized during creation of the calendar item; and a color associated with the calendar item is automatically selected from among a plurality of available colors based on learning from user association of the color with the particular word; one or more tracking components that track changes to calendar items made by users; and a changes area displayed distinctly from and concurrently with the calendar grid, the changes area displaying a history of the changes made to the calendar items, the changes area displaying the history of changes as a chronological list of the changes made to the calendar items.