Systems and methods for simplified recording and sharing of data

A computer program product residing on a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• creating, by a computing device, a file that includes data received from a client device, the file being accessible by a file system executable on the computing device, the data being a piece of data from a source of digital content, and the piece of data being less than an entire file provided by the source;
• copying the received data to a cache in response to input received on an icon associated with the file, and the copy of the received data within the cache being accessible to one or more applications;
• and
• providing, by the computing device, the copy of the received data from the cache to at least one application accessible by the computing device so as to share the received data without accessing the file created or the entire file provided by the source.

A computing system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor in communication with the memory, the at least one processor configured to:
• create, by a computing device, a file that includes data received from a client device, the file being accessible by a file system executable on the computing device, the data being a piece of data from a source of digital content, and the piece of data being less than an entire file provided by the source;
• copy the received data to a cache in response to input received on an icon associated with the file, and the copy of the received data within the cache being accessible to one or more applications;
• and
• provide, by the computing device, the copy of the received data from the cache to at least one application accessible by the computing device so as to share the received data without accessing the file created or the entire file provided by the source.