Abstract: A data-management system and method to be provided to a digital computer terminal for generating a link in real time between an electronic document opened in a computer application and a target document. The digital computer terminal includes a computer readable memory and a data-capture device, and the data-management system includes data-capture logic for controlling capture of electronic data by the data-capture device, target-document logic for generating the target document from the electronic data, and link-generating logic for substantially simultaneously storing the target document in the computer readable memory and generating the link to the target document in the electronic document in real time.