What's New in TextMap 2

Introduction

TextMap 2 is an important new version of our award-winning transcript summary utility.  As we developed TextMap 2, our goal was to add significant enhancements while maintaining TextMap's renowned ease of use.  We hope you'll feel we've succeeded on both counts.  We also hope you'll be pleased that TextMap 2 remains a small fraction of the cost of competing transcript management solutions.

Here are the important new features in TextMap 2:

Enhanced Transcript Importing

TextMap 2 offers more flexible importing of electronic transcripts.  TextMap 1 imported transcripts that were 25 lines per page and didn't have headers or footers.  TextMap 2 imports electronic transcripts with any number of lines per page and with or without headers and footers.

Cross-Transcript Searching

TextMap 2 includes new searching functionality that instantly displays a list of the page/line locations where a word or phrase appears in all case transcripts. When electronic transcripts are imported into TextMap 2, each transcript word (other than common words such as "and," "but," "or") is indexed and added to a word list that appears by default in the Word Search task pane on the right side of the TextMap 2 window. Powerful advanced search options are also available.

Built-in PDFing

TextMap 2 features built-in PDFing like that in CaseMap 5. Rather than printing TextMap reports, you can create PDFs of them without the need for a full Acrobat license. There's even a "Print to PDF and Email" option that creates a PDF of a TextMap report and automatically attaches it to an email that's ready to send.

Condensed Transcript Printing

Two clicks in TextMap 2 and any transcript can be printed or PDFed as either full-sized pages or with "condensed" pages where four transcript pages are placed on a single output page. Four-up printing starts with the second output page.

Click to view a Condensed Transcript generated as a PDF directly from TextMap 2

Search Results Reports

Anytime you conduct a word or phrase search in TextMap 2, two mouse clicks creates a printed or PDF report of the search results. A Search Report lists all word/phrase hits across all transcripts. For each hit, the transcript name and page/line reference is displayed and followed by the search word displayed in context -- 12 lines of transcript appear above the word hit and 12 lines of transcript appear below.

Click to view a Search Results Report generated as a PDF directly from TextMap2

Transcript Highlight Reports

TextMap makes it easy to cull key testimony from transcripts and organize it in CaseMap. We call the text selections that are sent to CaseMap "highlights" in that they remain highlighted in the transcript for easy identification. TextMap 2 includes a new Transcript Highlight Report that prints the transcript segments you've sent to CaseMap in the order in which they appear within the source deposition or examination. Printed below each transcript text selection are the associated fact fields from CaseMap, e.g., Date & Time, Fact Text, Source, Linked Issues.

Click to view a Transcript Highlights Report generated as a PDF directly from TextMap 2
 

Replication & Synchronization

TextMap 2 includes new replication & synchronization features. You can make a replica of a TextMap file, work in the replica as you travel, e.g., add new transcripts to it and send new transcript highlights to CaseMap, and then meld these additions and edits back into the master TextMap file via synchronization.

"Send-to-CaseMap" Functionality

The key feature of TextMap remains the ability to cull critical passages from transcripts and send them to a CaseMap file where they can be organized. You can use the Send to CaseMap features of TextMap both to create new facts in CaseMap and to append new sources to existing facts.
        

Other New Features

TextMap 2 offers customizable toolbars, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and numerous other new features.