10. A process of providing a computer system with document management facilities, comprising: providing the computer system with a collection facility configured to collect a multiplicity of documents from diverse applications, said documents being in respective different formats unique to the respective applications; providing the computer system with an indicator generating facility configured to automatically generate respective indicators that are associated with said documents and comprise at least respective time information pertaining to the documents; providing the computer system with a maintaining facility configured to maintain in non-transitory form a main collection of the documents and the indicators associated therewith; said maintaining facility being configured to maintain said main collection of documents unbounded in practical terms consistent with the computer system to thereby accommodate many documents and the respective indicators associated therewith in a form that is selectively searchable and retrievable by the computer system; providing the computer system with a search facility configured to respond to search criteria provided to the computer system by generating, from said main collection of documents, a subcollection of a multiplicity of documents that is a subset of the main collection documents; providing said computer system with a display facility configured to concurrently display on a computer display representations of plural documents that comprise only a segment rather than all of the documents of one of the main collection or the subcollection of documents; said display facility being further configured to display said representations in an arrangement consistent with the indicators associated with the documents corresponding to the representations that are displayed at the time, wherein at least some of the displayed representations show at least some information indicative of a content of the respective documents, which content-indicative information is in addition to any display of hierarchical data structure or time of creation of modification of documents; said display facility being further configured to display an enhanced representation of at least one of the documents of the displayed segment while continuing to display other representation of the documents in the segment; providing the computer system with a live main collection updating facility configured to maintain live the main collection of documents by automatically responding to subsequent events to include new documents in the main collection in response to said new documents being collected by the collection facility in response to said subsequent events, and to include in said indicators stored in the maintaining facility new indicators associated with said new documents; providing the computer system with an automatic subcollection updating facility configured to respond to said search criteria by automatically including in a subcollection generated in response to said search criteria or new search criteria those of said new documents that meet said criteria; and providing said computer system with a display updating facility configured to cause said display facility to display a segment that includes representations of at least some of said new documents.
10. A process of providing a computer system with document management facilities, comprising: providing the computer system with a collection facility configured to collect a multiplicity of documents from diverse applications, said documents being in respective different formats unique to the respective applications; providing the computer system with an indicator generating facility configured to automatically generate respective indicators that are associated with said documents and comprise at least respective time information pertaining to the documents; providing the computer system with a maintaining facility configured to maintain in non-transitory form a main collection of the documents and the indicators associated therewith; said maintaining facility being configured to maintain said main collection of documents unbounded in practical terms consistent with the computer system to thereby accommodate many documents and the respective indicators associated therewith in a form that is selectively searchable and retrievable by the computer system; providing the computer system with a search facility configured to respond to search criteria provided to the computer system by generating, from said main collection of documents, a subcollection of a multiplicity of documents that is a subset of the main collection documents; providing said computer system with a display facility configured to concurrently display on a computer display representations of plural documents that comprise only a segment rather than all of the documents of one of the main collection or the subcollection of documents; said display facility being further configured to display said representations in an arrangement consistent with the indicators associated with the documents corresponding to the representations that are displayed at the time, wherein at least some of the displayed representations show at least some information indicative of a content of the respective documents, which content-indicative information is in addition to any display of hierarchical data structure or time of creation of modification of documents; said display facility being further configured to display an enhanced representation of at least one of the documents of the displayed segment while continuing to display other representation of the documents in the segment; providing the computer system with a live main collection updating facility configured to maintain live the main collection of documents by automatically responding to subsequent events to include new documents in the main collection in response to said new documents being collected by the collection facility in response to said subsequent events, and to include in said indicators stored in the maintaining facility new indicators associated with said new documents; providing the computer system with an automatic subcollection updating facility configured to respond to said search criteria by automatically including in a subcollection generated in response to said search criteria or new search criteria those of said new documents that meet said criteria; and providing said computer system with a display updating facility configured to cause said display facility to display a segment that includes representations of at least some of said new documents. 13. The process of claim 10 including providing the computer system with an access restriction facility configured to cause the collection or at least some of the subcollections to be accessible to different extents in response to respective different sources of request for access.