Creating or modifying an ordered trail of links to pages and/or documents

A method of managing an aggregate document, comprising:

• a) presenting a user interface screen on a display device associated with a computing device in response to a user using the computing device to identify or select an aggregate document to be created or modified, wherein the aggregate document is configured to store a plurality of media content records and interconnecting relationships that define a trail for navigating through a corresponding plurality of media content resources using the interconnecting relationships and hyperlinks to the corresponding media content resources, wherein the user interface screen includes management options for selection of a plurality of embedded services to add one or more media content resources to the trail defined by the aggregate document, wherein the plurality of embedded services include a first embedded search service associated with a first search engine, an embedded manual service, and an embedded resource repository service;
• b) presenting search selection options in the user interface screen on the display device in response to the user selecting a first management option identifying the first embedded search service from the plurality of embedded services and subsequently activating of the first embedded search service, wherein the search selection options include a search text box for selective entry of one or more search terms by the user and a search control for activation of a search by the first search engine in relation to coinciding content of the search text box;
• c) presenting a search result list in the user interface screen on the display device after the user entered one or more search terms in the search text box and activated the search control and in response to receiving search results from a corresponding search conducted by the first search engine, wherein the search result list includes one or more search result items representing a corresponding one or more media content resources and corresponding to the one or more media content records, the search result list also including an add control associated with each search result item, the corresponding media content resource, and the corresponding media content record;
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• d) adding the media content record and the corresponding hyperlink to the aggregate document in response to the user activating the add control associated with the corresponding search result item.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause a corresponding computer-controlled device to perform a method of managing an aggregate document, the method comprising:

• a) presenting a user interface screen on a display device associated with a computing device in response to a user using the computing device to identify or select an aggregate document to be created or modified, wherein the aggregate document is configured to store a plurality of media content records and interconnecting relationships that define a trail for navigating through a corresponding plurality of media content resources using the interconnecting relationships and hyperlinks to the corresponding media content resources, wherein the user interface screen includes management options for selection of a plurality of embedded services to add one or more media content resources to the trail defined by the aggregate document, wherein the plurality of embedded services include a first embedded search service associated with a first search engine, an embedded manual service, and an embedded resource repository service;
• b) presenting search selection options in the user interface screen on the display device in response to the user selecting a first management option identifying the first embedded search service from the plurality of embedded services and subsequently activating of the first embedded search service, wherein the search selection options include a search text box for selective entry of one or more search terms by the user and a search control for activation of a search by the first search engine in relation to coinciding content of the search text box;
• c) presenting a search result list in the user interface screen on the display device after the user entered one or more search terms in the search text box and activated the search control and in response to receiving search results from a corresponding search conducted by the first search engine, wherein the search result list includes one or more search result items representing a corresponding one or more media content resources and corresponding to the one or more media content records, the search result list also including an add control associated with each search result item, the corresponding media content resource, and the corresponding media content record;
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• d) adding the media content record and the corresponding hyperlink to the aggregate document in response to the user activating the add control associated with the corresponding search result item.