1. A method for creating a portal page summarizing previous portal page usage comprising: monitoring usage metadata indicating current usage of at least one portlet within at least one portal page for one of a plurality of events specified to trigger storage of the usage metadata; responsive to detecting one of the plurality of events within the usage metadata, storing the detected usage metadata at a current time of at least one instance of at least one portlet application within the at least one portal page; and subsequent to storing separate detected usage metadata at a plurality of different times, dynamically creating a summary portal page displaying a separate instance of the at least one portlet application for at least one of each of the plurality of different times specified according to the separate usage metadata stored at each of the plurality of different times, such that the summary portal page provides a summary of at least a selection of previous usage metadata selected by a user of the at least one portal page.