Patent ID: 7783645

Claim:
A method of facilitating access to data objects, comprising: capturing an event associated with a computer system; in response to the captured event, selecting a subset of data objects that may be related to the event; creating a list associated with the subset of data objects, wherein the list is at least partially ordered based on a degree of relevance ranking between a data object in the list and the event; and outputting information associated with the created list; wherein said event associated with a computing system comprises a data object gaining the focus of a graphical user interface; wherein said data object gaining the focus of the graphical user interface comprises a window displaying an email message being opened or brought to the foreground; wherein said outputting comprises displaying, in the window, indications of the subset of data objects; and wherein the indications of the subset of data objects includes an indication of a data object stored in a database; the method further comprising displaying a set of choices that includes a choice to remove the indication of the data object from the indications of the subset of data objects without completely removing the data object from the database.