After recording a forensic interview, it's useful to transcribe it. Assuming the transcription is accurate, this will allow you to search for specific terms or copy and paste verbatim quotations into your report. The quality of transcription depends heavily on the quality of the recording. For in-person interviews, consider using

When I'm writing my reports, I frequently reference source documents. Over time, I'm made a number of changes to the way that I do this, increasingly trying to make it clear that the words I'm presenting are not my own. For example, in my current report template, document excerpts are

There are pros and cons to recording your forensic interviews. This is not a post about those pros and cons. If you have decided to record an interview, you might face many possible challenges. One that a frequently hit is that I am forced to conduct the interview through glass.

I recently came across this blog post detailing some handy tips for Preview, an application built-in to macOS. 10 Tips - Preview the Mac app people forget aboutPreview is that stand-alone program that comes with all Macs and one you probably don’t pay too much attention to.Fourth WallRory