1. A method, comprising: opening a first electronic document; creating a second electronic document superimposed over the first electronic document to receive annotations in reference to the first electronic document; creating, in response to creating the second electronic document to receive annotations, an association between the first electronic document and the second electronic document; saving the second document as a separate document independent of the first document; in response to a second opening of the first electronic document, and based upon the association between the first electronic document and the second electronic document that was annotated during a previous viewing of the first electronic document, automatically opening the second electronic document without user intervention; superimposing the second electronic document with the annotations over the first electronic document; and receiving additional annotations in reference to the first electronic document within the second electronic document concurrently while viewing the first electronic document beneath the second electronic document.
1. A method, comprising: opening a first electronic document; creating a second electronic document superimposed over the first electronic document to receive annotations in reference to the first electronic document; creating, in response to creating the second electronic document to receive annotations, an association between the first electronic document and the second electronic document; saving the second document as a separate document independent of the first document; in response to a second opening of the first electronic document, and based upon the association between the first electronic document and the second electronic document that was annotated during a previous viewing of the first electronic document, automatically opening the second electronic document without user intervention; superimposing the second electronic document with the annotations over the first electronic document; and receiving additional annotations in reference to the first electronic document within the second electronic document concurrently while viewing the first electronic document beneath the second electronic document. 6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first electronic document is a word processing file.