System and method for managing and utilizing information
A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for managing information associated with a plurality of electronic documents, the computer-executable instructions including: instructions for displaying a hierarchically organized list of user selectable keywords; instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with selected ones of the keywords; instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with at least one meeting, conference or event; and instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with at least one of the keywords and meetings, conferences or events responsively to a user request therefore.
1 . A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for managing information associated with a plurality of electronic documents, said computer-executable instructions comprising:
instructions for displaying a hierarchically organized list of user selectable keywords;
instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with selected ones of the keywords;
instructions for associating at least some of the electronic documents with at least one meeting, conference or event; and
instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with at least one of the keywords and meetings, conferences or events responsively to a user request therefore.
2 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with a date responsively to a request therefore.
3 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with a source responsively to a request therefore.
4 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with an author responsively to a request therefore.
5 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with a title responsively to a request therefore.
6 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of ones of the electronic documents associated with an electronic document type responsively to a request therefore.
7 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for automatically presenting a link to other information associated with the information associated with the stored documents.
8 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for automatically displaying a list of persons associated with the information associated with the stored documents.
9 . The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the list of persons comprises at least two of: name, telephone number, contact address, e-mail address, professional affiliation, company and title.
10 . The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the list of persons comprises at least three of: name, telephone number, contact address, e-mail address, professional affiliation, company and title.
11 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the electronic documents include at lease some of: .PDF, .PPT, .DOC, .TXT and .WPD documents.
12 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the electronic documents include: .PDF, .PPT, .DOC, .TXT and .WPD documents.
13 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions for allowing a user to enter a new keyword into the hierarchical list of keywords stored in at least one database.
14 . The computer-readable medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions for allowing a user to delete a keyword from the hierarchical list of keywords stored in at least one database.
15 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein at least some of the meetings, conferences or events are past meetings, conferences or events.
16 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein at least some of the meetings, conferences or events are future meetings, conferences or events.