The problem
The chronology is in a spreadsheet. The good paragraph is highlighted in a PDF nobody else has. The research answer was right in March and nobody has looked at it since. The note that mattered is in an email to yourself.
Every tool you use hands you a document that is finished the day it is made. Six months later the case has moved and none of it has.
And the part that matters most has no home at all. Your theory of the case, why that paragraph matters, which facts must land before the argument works — that lives in your head, in a legal pad, and in the memory of whoever was in the room. There is software for storing the file. There is none for thinking about it.
How it works
Open the disclosure, the pleadings, the expert reports — the files you already have, in the formats you already use. Highlight a passage, pull an excerpt, ink in the margin. Everything you keep stays attached to the page it came from.
Write what you actually think: this witness contradicts that one; this clause is the whole case; this is the order the facts have to land in. Your reasoning sits next to the material it came from — the issues, the chronology, the witnesses, the points you intend to make — each one still a tap from the document behind it. Add a fact in month six and it goes where it belongs, without rebuilding anything you already worked out.
What makes it different
A document system holds the file. A note app holds the note. Neither holds the argument — the reason this paragraph matters, the order these facts have to land in, what you concluded in March and why. Here that is the primary thing, and it is still there in month nine when someone asks you to justify it.
Questions
No. The name is about evidence, not backups: every line you write is backed by the page it came from.
No. Open the same bundles and PDFs you have now. What changes is that what you keep stops disappearing into a folder.
Nothing asserted. Everything backed.
