Abstract: A method for selecting and saving information in a single user action. A user selects, with a computer input device such as a mouse, a document section having text and/or images from a primary document such as a web page displayed in a window of a primary document display program such as a web browser associated with a document section acquisition program. The selected document section is automatically, with no further user action required, transmitted over a network to a server computer and stored. Multiple document sections from one or more primary documents may be similarly stored. The document sections may then be transmitted to a document viewing program and displayed in a document viewer window. The user may select which document sections to retrieve and display, which are then assembled into a document at the document viewing program. Notes may also be added by the user in association with a selected document section.