Proactive Staged Distribution Of Document Activity Indicators

A method of proactively distributing document activity indicators, the method comprising:

• detecting a first activity, performed by a first user, on a document created by a creator user;
• generating a first activity indicator corresponding to the first activity;
• identifying a first set of users based on:
• changes to the document made by the first activity, a type of the first activity, the first user and the creator user;
• distributing the first activity indicator to a first set of user workspaces, each user workspace corresponding to one or more users in the identified first set of users;
• receiving a request for activity indicators from a requesting user's workspace;
• and
• providing the activity indicators from the requesting user's workspace in response to the request.

A system comprising:

• a first server computing device comprising:
• one or more first server processing units;
• and
• one or more first server computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more first server processing units, cause the first server computing device to:
• detect a first activity, performed by a first user, on a document created by a creator user;
• generate a first activity indicator corresponding to the first activity;
• identify a first set of users based on:
• changes to the document made by the first activity, a type of the first activity, the first user and the creator user, the first set of users comprising a second user;
• and
• distribute the first activity indicator to a first set of user workspaces, each user workspace corresponding to one or more users in the identified first set of users, the first set of user workspaces comprising a second user workspace corresponding to the second user;
• and
• a client computing device comprising:
• a display device;
• one or more client processing units;
• and
• one or more client computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more client processing units, cause the client computing device to:
• obtain, from the second user workspace, the first activity indicator;
• and
• generate, on the display device, a user interface visually presenting recent document activity to the second user based at least in part on activity indicators obtained from the second user workspace, the recent document activity comprising the first activity performed by the first user.