Almost Paper is a computer program for litigation lawyers. It allows you to load, index, search, read and annotate transcripts of evidence and other documents in electronic form.

Almost Paper was designed by a litigation lawyer. Instead of changing the way you work to fit the demands of a computer, Almost Paper allows you to work with your electronic transcripts the way you already do with your paper ones.

The way lawyers work with paper transcripts is in many ways better than the way computers have forced us to work with electronic ones. Paper comes in sheets not long continuous scrolls. A book, in a way, is randomly accessible. You can go to any page without scrolling through all the earlier ones first. The text has a location. You remember that a particular passage was at the top or bottom or middle of a page. If you want, you can write notes on a paper document. You can highlight the good bits with a coloured marker. You can add sticky flags to mark a page you want to come back to. None of this works very well with most computer programs.

Almost Paper is different. It combines the advantages of working with a computer - the ability to search for words or phrases, the ability to carry thousands of pages around on your laptop computer, and so on - with many of the advantages of working with paper.

Almost Paper

• lets you view each page of your transcript as a separate page on your computer screen - so that your paper and electronic transcripts match exactly
• lets you add notes to your transcripts
• lets you highlight your transcripts with an electronic yellow marker
• lets you mark important pages with red flags so you can return to them at any time
• lets you divide your document into sections with section headings that appear at the top of each page - so you always know whose evidence you are reading.
• lets you organize your documents into electronic binders.
• lets you drag and drop key evidence into an outline. Evidence on each issue in your case is always at your fingertips.
• lets you print your documents, your notes, highlighted passages or any combination of the three you choose.
• lets you print an index for any (or all) of your documents, so you can find evidence even without your computer.