User management of electronic documents

A computer program product for managing a plurality of electronic documents, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to receive content selected from a first electronic document;
• computer readable program code configured to generate metadata that is assigned by a document manager to the received selected content that includes priority data indicating a level of importance of the selected content to the user;
• computer readable program code configured to store the metadata corresponding to the selected content;
• computer readable program code configured to perform by at least one of a first recipient and a second recipient a subsequent search according to a search term against a repository that includes the first electronic document and a second electronic document;
• computer readable program code configured to determine that the search term is also in the received content selected from the first electronic document and that the metadata indicating the level of importance of the selected content to the user is assigned to the selected content;
• computer readable program code configured to determine that the second electronic document includes the search term and is devoid of metadata corresponding to selected content having the search term;
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• computer readable program code configured to display search results in response to the search, the search results including an indicator of the first electronic document and further including an indicator of a second electronic document including the search term, wherein the indicator of the first electronic document is displayed higher in the search results than the second electronic document according to the priority data in the metadata assigned to the selected content.