Abstract: A visual document navigation scheme displays items and their related data in a vertically aligned manner using horizontal indentations to visually link an item and its related data. A document navigator software produces such a display to facilitate accurate document viewing and efficient document navigation in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment (e.g., a nurse or clinician on duty in a hospital). The use of vertically-aligned positional markers by the document navigator program to place an item and its related data at substantially the same horizontal starting location on an electronic display results in a display of a document's contents in a concise, logical, and focused manner. Visual cues such as shapes, colors, or both may also be used. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.