14. The system of claim 12 further comprising: filtering the available clippings to present a subset of clippings that are associated with a category; and automatically associating a new clipping with the category upon receiving a request to persist a new clipping.
14. The system of claim 12 further comprising: filtering the available clippings to present a subset of clippings that are associated with a category; and automatically associating a new clipping with the category upon receiving a request to persist a new clipping. 27. The method of claim 14 , wherein, upon association with the category, the new clipping inherits one or more portions of metadata corresponding to the category.