saving the state of the current screen for later viewing to provide context for the current note a new button 127 allows a user to create a new note without popping down the current create note dialog 120 a subnote button 128 allows the user to create a subnote to the currently active note thereby allowing the creation of hierarchical relationships between note objects cancel button 129 allows a user to cancel the current note prior to being stored in the notes service 20 if the cancel button 129 is activated the currently active note object is discarded u2014 that is the memory occupied by the currently active note object is freed and it is not saved in persistent storage fig7 is a display note dialog 130 of the graphical user interface 100 that is displayed when the display 110 b menu item of the drop down menu 110 of the notes service functions has been selected display notes dialog 130 displays notes created by the client application in a notes table 135 if the client application 15 is a collaboration application the display notes dialog 130 displays the note objects created during a specified collaboration session these notes may be filtered according to type for example selecting the all notes tab 131 a results in a list of all notes being displayed regardless of type selecting the general tab 131 b results in a list of all the general notes being displayed selecting the action items tab 131 c results in a list of all the action item notes being displayed selecting the decisions tab 131 d results in a list of all the decision notes.