2. The system of claim 1 wherein: a) the input means further comprises annotation input means for inputting one or more user-defined annotations to the text; b) the one-to-one association organizing means further comprises annotation organizing means for establishing a one-to-one association between each annotation and a corresponding record; and ( c) the output means further comprises record retrieval means for retrieving one or more records according to one or more annotations associated with at least one record.
5. The system of claim 2 wherein: a) the input means further comprises annotation input means for inputting user-defined annotations selected from the group consisting of text, symbols, digitized pictorial material, digitized voice, or a binary representation of analog information; and b) the organizing means further comprises annotation organizing means for organizing annotations into at least one of first and second sets classified according to type of annotation.