A system which is primarily of use for lawyers, judges and electronic
court reporters operates to correlate personal log notes with digitally
recorded audio proceedings, such as courtroom proceedings. The notes may
be made in conjunction with the computer actually recording the courtroom
proceedings; or they may be made on personal computers separate from the
computer recording the court proceedings. Identification of the
proceedings is made on both the digitally recorded proceedings, as well
as on the log notes; so that they are correlated. Each time a note is
entered, the time at which the note is entered is placed as a time stamp
in conjunction with the note. When the log notes are synchronized with
the recorded court proceedings (either at the time the proceedings begin,
or at any subsequent time), reference subsequently to that note time
stamp allows direct immediate access to the same running time on the
court proceedings, for subsequent review of either the recorded audio or
a transcription made of that audio carrying the same time references.