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Systems and methods are provided for representing multiple tasks and their associated properties, including the time and nature of a deadline and preferences about the granularity of time for focussing on the task. This includes providing several services, including atuomated scheduling of project focus meetings with the owner of the system, reminders and tracking of time and resources used for the tasks, rescheduling of meetings given user input about putting off task, and juggling and rescheduling appointments with other appointments as they come in, given the priority of the appointment. Methods tools as multilevel, multi-view busy-free depending on those viewing the user"s calendar. Resource tracking tools are harnessed for coalescing task-centric items and for providing appropriate files, documents, and other informational resources to users when users revisit a suspended task.