7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: detecting another selection of another portion from a different location in the first content; storing the other selected portion in the snippet along with the selected portion; and separating the selected portion and the other selected portion with a divider while displaying the snippet in the navigation pane.
1. A method executed on a computing device for preserving formatting of content selection through a snippet, the method comprising: detecting a selection of a portion of a first content; determining a format of the selected portion; storing the selected portion and the format as a snippet; displaying the snippet in a navigation pane preserving the format; navigating to a location of the selected portion within the first content in response to detecting an action activating the snippet; determining a related location in a second content by matching components in the selected portion stored in the snippet with components of the second content; and inserting the snippet into the second content at the related location to annotate the second content with the selected portion stored in the snippet.