In our continuing efforts to deliver the fastest, most intuitive platform on the market, DISCO is proud to announce Same as Last and Copy from Previous Tagging capabilities. This functionality permits users to leverage prior coding decisions on the document they are currently viewing, allowing for faster coding of similar documents and greater consistency during review.
Within DISCO’s standard document viewer, you will now see the RECENT DECISIONS section in the left panel. The RECENT DECISIONS section will display your last five sets of tagging choices and allow you to quickly choose to apply any of those tags or tag combinations to your current document.
If you have not applied any tags to any documents, you will not see any choices under RECENT DECISIONS. However, once you have applied tags to at least one document in DISCO, you will be able to see and select previous coding decisions when you move to the next document. For example, apply the tags Responsive and Trading to your first document (as seen below) and then click the next arrow.
When you advance to the next document (see below), the Responsive and Trading tags will now appear in the RECENT DECISIONS section. To add those two tags to the current document, you can click the circled checkmark to the right of the tag names. You can also click on the individual tag names in the RECENT DECISIONS section to apply that specific tag.
If you prefer keyboard shortcuts, you can use the following to add recently used tags and advance to the next document.
- SHIFT + ; – Applies the most recent tag decision to the current document.
- CTRL + ; or ALT + ; – Applies the most recent tag decision to the current document and advances you to the next document.
As you continue to advance through your documents, DISCO will keep the last five unique tagging decisions displayed in the RECENT DECISIONS section. Whenever one of your tagging decisions includes the removal of a tag, DISCO will denote that removal by placing a line through the tag name.
It is important to note that while you can copy your prior tagging decisions to your current document, you are not limited to only those tags. For example, if you apply your prior Responsive and Trading tag decision to the next document, you can still add the Hot tag as well.
Furthermore, when the RECENT DECISIONS section is collapsed, you can click the circled checkmark to apply the same tagging decisions from the last document to your current document.
It is important to note that when you choose to add tags from the RECENT DECISIONS section, DISCO will not replace any existing tags unless the selection you choose contains a tag removal. For example, let’s say you were currently reviewing a document that had already been tagged as Responsive.
If you choose to add the Hot and FERC tags, DISCO will add those tags to the current document while leaving it tagged as Responsive.
However, if you choose the second option that includes Non-Responsive, Not Privilege, and Responsive with a line through it, DISCO will add the Non-Responsive and Not Privilege tags and remove the existing Responsive tag.
Copy from previous tagging (sometimes referred to as ditto) is available in DISCO’s Review Stages. When constructing a decision pane, you will notice the new Tagging Preferences area. Here you can make decisions about tag propagation, tagging documents in a conversation, viewing predicted tag scores, and providing reviewers the ability to copy tags from a previous document.
Reviewers will see several new features in the decision pane, such as the ” icon and the ability to display keyboard shortcuts (including combination shortcuts).
Once a reviewer has tagged the first document in their batch and advanced to the next document, they can hover over the “ icon to display the tags applied to the prior document. If the document’s tags are similar to the previous document's, they can click the ” icon to match this document’s tagging to the previous one.
At any time, reviewers can display the available keyboard shortcuts by pressing SHIFT, CTRL (Windows), or ALT (Mac OS). You can use the following keyboard shortcuts to copy tags from the previous document.
- SHIFT + ; – Applies the most recent tag decision to the current document.
- CTRL + ; or ALT + ; – Applies the most recent tag decision to the current document and advances you to the next document.
This feature is available in all databases created on or after November 20, 2017.