12. A pointer-based computer system as recited in claim 11 wherein said means for generating an initial note area on the computer screen includes means for creating a first data structure including a note number and a note height dimension.
11. A pointer-based computer system comprising: a central processing unit; a memory accessible by said central processing unit; a computer display having a screen; a pointer; means for generating an initial note area on the screen of the computer display; means for dividing said initial note area into a plurality of note areas in response to at least one division gesture implemented by moving the pointer across the width of the screen such that a left edge of the division gesture is within a first defined distance of a left side of said computer display and a right edge of the division gesture is within a second defined distance of a right side of said computer display, wherein the division gesture is made in a horizontal motion having a slope of less than a predefined slope value, and wherein each division gesture creates divider indicia in the form of a header bar on said screen which visually separates an immediately preceding note area and an immediately subsequent note area, the header bar being associated with the immediately subsequent note area, the header bar including a sizing button, the sizing button being operative to adjust a height of the immediately subsequent note area without adjusting the immediately preceding note area; and a quantized scrolling mechanism operative to respond to a down-scroll command received for a given note area by performing one of the following: (a) when the given note area has a subsequent area that is not displayed on the screen and the associated header bar is displayed but is not positioned at an upper portion of the screen, scrolling down and displaying the associated header bar at the upper portion of the screen thereby displaying at least a portion of the subsequent area; (b) when the given note area has the subsequent area that is not displayed on the screen and the associated header bar is either displayed positioned at the upper portion of the screen or not displayed, scrolling down and displaying the subsequent area positioned beginning at the upper portion of the screen; and (c) when the given note area has no subsequent area not displayed and a subsequent note is available for display, displaying the subsequent note such that the subsequent note's header bar is located on the upper portion of the screen, the quantized scrolling mechanism further operative to respond to an up-scroll command received for the given note area by performing one of the following: (d) when the given note area has a preceding area which is not displayed on the screen and the preceding area's height is larger than a height of the screen, displaying a bottom most portion of the preceding area; (e) when the given note area has the preceding area which is not displayed on the screen and the preceding area's height is less than or equal to a height of the screen, displaying the given note area such that the associated header bar is positioned at the upper portion of the screen; and (f) when the given note area has no preceding area not displayed and a preceding note is available for display, displaying the preceding note area such that the preceding note area's header bar is located on the upper portion of the screen.