1. A method of operating a digital content acquisition device, comprising: a user selects a first annotation stored in the acquisition device that identifies some aspect of at least a first content item to be captured, capture at least the first content item and one or more subsequently captured content items in the acquisition device, associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the first annotation with the first content item, automatically associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the first annotation with any other of the subsequently captured content items until a second annotation stored within the acquisition device that identifies some aspect of at least a second content item to be captured is selected by the user, capture the second content item in the acquisition device, thereafter associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the second annotation with at least the second content item, store data of the captured content items along with the associated first and second annotations and record linking references of the associated annotations into headers of the captured content items; when the acquisition device is turned on, determine whether the acquisition device had been turned off for more than a predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on; and if the acquisition device had been turned off for more than the predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on, automatically generate an alert of whether to associate a previous annotation with a next content item to be captured, wherein the previous annotation is associated with a last content item captured in the acquisition device before the acquisition device was turned off.
1. A method of operating a digital content acquisition device, comprising: a user selects a first annotation stored in the acquisition device that identifies some aspect of at least a first content item to be captured, capture at least the first content item and one or more subsequently captured content items in the acquisition device, associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the first annotation with the first content item, automatically associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the first annotation with any other of the subsequently captured content items until a second annotation stored within the acquisition device that identifies some aspect of at least a second content item to be captured is selected by the user, capture the second content item in the acquisition device, thereafter associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the second annotation with at least the second content item, store data of the captured content items along with the associated first and second annotations and record linking references of the associated annotations into headers of the captured content items; when the acquisition device is turned on, determine whether the acquisition device had been turned off for more than a predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on; and if the acquisition device had been turned off for more than the predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on, automatically generate an alert of whether to associate a previous annotation with a next content item to be captured, wherein the previous annotation is associated with a last content item captured in the acquisition device before the acquisition device was turned off. 12. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second annotations identifies an expected circumstance under which the respective first or second content items are to be captured.