note document alternatively the creator could distribute the encryption key needed to open a note document this allows users to publish note documents to a subscription list users can host their own note documents on private computer systems such private computer systems may be licensed copies of part or all of the computer system 20 such a privately held note document might be protected by security measures the creator of such a note document can create additional note documents in other instances of the computer system 20 which may be owned by other people or companies these additional note documents could provide pointers to one or many note documents on the creator 39 s private computer system these additional note documents might contain a summary of the original note document users of one instance of the computer system 20 may have access to certain other instances of the computer system 20 this access is determined by the owner of each instance this allow many instances of the computer system 20 to participate the hosting and distribution of geographically located note documents since any media type can be easily put in to a note document it is easy for the owners of an instance of the computer system 20 to create note documents from data from other computer systems under their control for example a store owner can copy their inventory database into note documents in their instance of the computer system 20 this conversion of a store database to geographically located note documents makes it easy to serve the inventory information to other users interested in the stores physical area a user can upload or create a collection of note documents in one action such as dragging and dropping a folder of documents.