Almost Paper provides you with a new way to work with your electronic transcripts - the same way you've worked for years with your paper ones. Other programs allow you to search your transcripts and depositions for key words and phrases. But you still have to read them. And who wants to read a transcript on a computer?

Now, with Almost Paper, working with your transcripts on your computer is a pleasure - because it's just like working with the paper ones (almost).

Here are some of the features of Almost Paper that we believe make it unique:

Paper and Electronic Copies Match

You still have to cite evidence by page and line number from the paper transcript. With Almost Paper, the pages in the electronic and paper copies match. If the evidence you want is at the bottom of page 135 of your paper transcript, you'll find it at the bottom of page 135 on your computer as well.

More Annotations

Other programs allow you to add notes to your transcripts. But with Almost Paper you can also highlight passages with a yellow marker and even mark key pages with colored flags - all on your computer.

Electronic Binders

If you want to stay on top of a case, you have to be organized. Every litigator keeps paper documents in binders. You might have a binder (or set of binders) for transcripts, a binder for witness statements, and so on. Almost Paper lets you do the same thing on your computer. You can create electronic binders for your electronic documents. Any document can be added to any binder you wish and to as many binders as you wish. When you open a binder you see only the documents you have put in it.

The Almost Paper Outline

In Almost Paper's outline window you can create headings and subheadings appropriate to your case. For example, you might list all of the important issues in your case; or create headings for the evidence you want to refer to in argument. As you read your transcripts, drag and drop references to key passages under any heading or subheading. Clicking on a reference in the outline takes you back to that passage immediately.

You Won't Get Lost

Other programs find key words and phrase quickly. But when you read them, you have no idea who is speaking. Is this the Cross Examination of Smith? The Direct Examination of Jones? Almost Paper allows you to divide your transcript into sections (Cross Examination of Smith, Direct Examination of Jones, etc.). The heading of the current section always appears at the top of your computer screen, so you always know where you are.

Go Directly to a Section or Page

Almost Paper keeps track of every page, and every section, in every one of your transcripts. If you want to go to page 592, simply type "592" in the GoTo dialog box and Almost Paper takes you there immediately. If you want to go to the Cross Examination of Smith, open a list of the sections you have marked, choose "Cross Examination of Smith" and Almost Paper takes you to the first page of that section.

Plus all the advantages of working with a computer

Of course, there are many benefits to working on a computer that you don't get with paper. You can carry thousands of pages on your laptop computer, your transcripts, notes and other annotations won't get lost and you can use our full text search engine to find important evidence in seconds.

Now in Version 2.1

Almost Paper Version 2.1 is now shipping. Read about the new features that have been added.