1. A method comprising: identifying a plurality of desired portions of a content item; automatically creating, by a computing device having at least one processor, annotations for the content item, wherein automatically creating the annotations includes: storing a first identifier corresponding to a first desired portion of the plurality of desired portions and a second identifier corresponding to a second desired portion of the plurality of desired portions in the annotations, wherein the first desired portion and the second desired portion are separated in the content item by an intervening portion, and storing displayable content information describing a non-identified portion of the content item; and generating, by the computing device, a display of the displayable content information describing the non-identified portion of the content item without displaying the non-identified portion.