10. A method for creating and managing persistent document collections comprising the steps of: displaying a plurality of documents that are managed by a browser-based content management application that receives user input from a client-side web browser; receiving an add selection from the client-side web browser which specifies at least one document of the plurality of documents to add to a persistent document collection, the persistent document collection comprising a grouping of a sub-set of the plurality of documents, the persistent document collection enabling access to the sub-set of documents as a group and having an attribute that specifies any external applications with which the persistent document collection can share its documents; and storing the persistent document collection comprising the at least one document of the plurality of documents in a data store, in storage space allocated to the persistent document collection, wherein the content management application is further processed to assign one or more attributes to the persistent document collection, wherein the one or more attributes include an amount of disk space measured in a multiple of bits or a multiple of bytes to allocate to the persistent document collection.
13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising: at a later point in time, receiving a remove selection which specifies the at least one or more of the plurality of documents to remove from the persistent document collection.