1. A system for organizing a commonplace of information, comprising: a) a commonplace of information containing a plurality of info-items; b) one or more computers with server functions for holding said commonplace of information; c) one or more computers with server functions for managing said commonplace of information; d) server system software for managing said server functions, database functions, and the attached devices of said computers with server functions for managing said commonplace of information; e) commonplace management software for managing the organization of said commonplace information on said computers with server functions for managing said commonplace of information; f) one or more computers hosting workbench functions for providing workbench user interfacing to said commonplace; g) workbench system software for managing said workbench functions by controlling said computer and its attached devices on said one or more computers hosting workbench functions and invoking server application functions at the request of workbench application software; h) communications management software executing on said computers with server functions for managing said commonplace of information for distributing information content extracted from, and by collecting information to be added to said commonplace to and from said one or more computers hosting workbench functions; i) communications management software executing on said one or more computers hosting workbench functions to control those computer's communication connection, synchronization, and transfer of information with said computers with server functions for managing said commonplace of information; j) server application software executing on said computer servers for managing the distributing of information content derived from said commonplace to said one or more computers hosting workbench functions through said attached devices; k) workbench application software executing on said one or more computers hosting workbench functions managing the local computing and storage of said one or more computers hosting workbench functions to present a local version of said content through a user interface to a user and to accept user commands; and l) distributed application software executing in part on one or more said servers and in part on a said workbench computer; whereby said user is able to see what is in said commonplace, add to said commonplace new ideas, add meta-data about said ideas, vote on the categorization of said ideas, incrementally extend said ideas by immediate creativity capture, and invoke application functions executing on said server from said workbench as workbench functions.