1. A graphical user interface in a display, comprising: at least one display object for displaying component portions of a file in respective formats of the component portions, wherein the component portions are capable of being associated with a plurality of formats, including a text format, a presentation format, a graphics format, an email file format, and a sound file format, the component portions being associated with at least two formats of the plurality of formats including the text format, the presentation format, the graphics format, the sound file format, or the email file format and the component portions having an initial component portion displayed on an x-axis and a y-axis, wherein: the y-axis is perpendicular to the x-axis within a graphical user interface; and the remaining component portions are cascaded along a z-axis within the graphical user interface, relative to the initial component portion; at least one user control for retrieving portions of information from the component portions cascaded along the z-axis within the graphical user interface; and a summary component to summarize documents or projects in a dynamic application, the summary component minimizes an application into a smaller rendering that is replaced at focus by another application that is optionally minimized into an exploded view, the exploded view being automatically positioned to a side of a screen and minimized per specified preferences, the exploded view including a set of messages that a user has opened within a time horizon, cascaded to the side of a task in an order that the user can read the messages.