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How do I tag messages?

Tag messages, emails, and files during review to organize evidence by topic, issue, or relevance.

Tag messages, emails, and files during review to organize evidence by topic, issue, or relevance. Tags are saved at the case level and available across searches, exports, and reports.

Tag a phone or social media message

You can tag individual messages in phone and social media conversations from the Evidence Panel.

A conversation with a message selected

  1. Click a message in the conversation to select it. The Evidence Panel opens on the right showing the message text, Tags, and Comments.

  2. Click a tag to apply it, or type a new tag name and press Enter.

Applied tags appear next to the message in the conversation view and in the Evidence Panel.

Tag an email

You can tag an entire email thread or an individual email within it.

An email thread with the Tag control visible in the toolbar

  1. Open a collected email. The Tags on This Conversation section shows tags applied to the entire email thread.

  2. Click a tag to apply it, or type a new tag name in the "New tag..." field and press Enter.

To tag an individual email, click Tag on that message and choose the tags to apply.

Tag a file

You can tag files from the file list or the file preview.

The Files tab in a data source

A file preview with Tags, Download, Comments, and Snip below

  1. Click the Files tab in a data source to view collected files.

  2. Click Tags at the bottom of the file list to open the tagging panel.

  3. Select a file to preview it. Tags appear below the preview alongside Download, Comments, and Snip.

Tag messages in bulk

You can apply a tag to multiple messages at once using the Bulk Tag tool.

The Bulk Tag button in the toolbar and the Select a Tag to Apply dropdown

  1. Click Bulk Tag in the toolbar.

  2. Select a tag from the "Select a Tag to Apply" dropdown, or create a new one.

    Messages selected with the tag applied and a tag count in the sidebar

  3. Click messages in the conversation to apply the selected tag. A tag count appears next to each conversation in the sidebar.

    The Done button bar at the bottom of the screen

  4. Click Done when finished.

Tag by keyword search

You can search for messages by keyword and tag all matching results at once.

Keyword search results showing a match count

  1. Type a keyword in the search bar to find matching messages within a conversation. The result count shows how many messages match.

    The Tag All Results button and tag selection

  2. Click "Tag All [N] Results" to select tags for all matching messages.

  3. Choose the tags to apply and click Apply.

    The confirmation dialog for applying tags to all results

  4. Confirm the action to apply the selected tags to all matching messages at once.

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