Methods and apparatus for user-customizable application software

A method for processing user-added features of an application program, comprising:

• displaying, to an end-user, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a first chart on a first screen of an application program, wherein the first chart includes a first axis representing time and, along a second axis, instances of a row class of screen region;
• receiving pointing instruction, from an end-user, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, to a first location on the first screen;
• receiving an indication, by the end-user, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, to at least a first instance of the row class of screen region, by detecting end-user input, constituting a gesture at the first location, while the first location is within a first screen region corresponding to the first instance of the row class of screen region;
• responding, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, to the indication with the gesture to the first instance of the row class of screen region, by using a first template to produce a first universal resource identifier;
• substituting in the first template, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a first parameter of the indicated row class of screen region with a first value of the indicated instance of the row class of screen region;
• producing, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, a first result of a first user-added feature using the first universal resource identifier based on the substitution;
• and
• transmitting, performed at least in part with a configuration of computing hardware and programmable memory, the first result for display to the end-user.