Patent ID: 8463740

Claim:
A method comprising a plurality of computer-executable acts, the acts executed by a processor of a personal computing device of a user, the acts comprising: receiving a computing event corresponding to a file retained in a data repository of the personal computing device of the user; responsive to receiving the computing event, automatically generating a preview of contents of the file; subsequent to generating the preview of the contents of the file, transmitting the preview to a web server for retention thereon, wherein the preview is assigned a uniform resource identifier such that the preview is accessible by way of a web browser that is provided the uniform resource identifier; automatically transmitting first notifications to operating systems of respective computing devices of approved contacts of the user of the personal computing device, the first notifications comprising the uniform resource identifier; receiving from the web server at least one comment on the preview, the at least one comment generated by a reviewer of the preview that accessed the preview on the web server by way of the web browser and the uniform resource identifier, the at least one comment at least temporarily retained on the web server in correlation with the preview, the reviewer being one of the approved contacts of the user of the personal computing device; and storing the at least one comment on the preview in the data repository of the personal computing device in association with the file and responsive to receiving the at least one comment on the preview from the web server, the at least one comment being searchable on the personal computing device; wherein the at least one comment on the preview is assigned to a version of the file in the data repository such that the version of the file corresponding to the at least one comment generated by the reviewer is provided to the user of the personal computing device when the user reviews the at least one comment generated by the reviewer.