Contact creation and utilization

A system for automatically generating a document by passively capturing content of a conversation among users over a network, the system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory operatively connected with the at least one processor storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to execute a method that comprises:
• creating a contact associated with the conversation, wherein the conversation is a direct conversation among the users and the users collaborate during the conversation, and wherein the contact is used as a non-user to passively capture content from the conversation;
• associating the contact with the conversation and with at least one document;
• receiving at least one content of the conversation;
• based on relevance of the received at least one content of the conversation to at least one topic of the at least one document, automatically identifying at least one portion of content of the conversation for inclusion in the at least one document;
• and
• automatically transferring the identified at least one portion of the content to the at least one document to generate the at least one document.

A method for automatically generating a document by capturing content of a conversation among users over a network, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a contact as a non-user, content of the conversation, wherein the conversation is a direct conversation among the users and the users collaborate during the conversation, and wherein the conversation comprises contact data for the contact and content from the conversation;
• automatically identifying, by the contact, at least one document associated with the conversation;
• based on relevance of the received content of the conversation to at least one topic of the at least one document, automatically identifying at least one portion of the received at least one content of the conversation;
• and
• automatically transferring the identified at least one portion of the content to the at least one document.