Adversarial Process
Evidence Organizer
The Evidence Organizer takes unstructured collections of documents — court filings, emails, text messages, photos, reports — and turns them into a structured, searchable evidence archive. Every piece of evidence gets tagged with dates, sources, relevance scores, and connections to other documents. Built during a real custody case where hundreds of documents needed to tell a coherent story to a judge.
Use case: You have a box of documents, emails, and screenshots. This turns it into a case.
Audience: Self-represented litigants, researchers, and families managing high-conflict cases.
Access note: read access is public; execution, private distribution, or heavier inference-backed runs may still depend on membership, verification, and profile completion.
How it works
What this tool needs
Original or first-generation digital files (not photos of screens if you can avoid them), and patience to check the tool’s guesses against what you remember.
What you upload or prepare
Put everything you want indexed into one folder, or import file-by-file. Name files plainly if you can (e.g. “2024-03-01 email from school.pdf”).
What runs automatically
Pulls dates, names, and recurring terms from text when possible, groups files into a working index, and suggests tags or links between related items.
What you review manually
Confirm dates, fix wrong tags, mark what is strongest evidence, and draw connections the software cannot know (context only you have).
What you get at the end
A searchable archive view, an ordered evidence list you can export, and notes you can hand to a lawyer or use in a filing—after you have checked them.
When to stop and ask for help
Stop if you are unsure whether you may use a document in court, if someone threatens you, or if a deadline is soon—get legal help before relying on any export.
What you need
- Digital copies of your documents (PDFs, images, or text files you are allowed to use)
- A rough sense of your case’s important dates and people (you do not need perfect notes)
- Time to review tags and connections—the tool suggests structure; you decide what matters
Example output
- A structured folder of evidence renamed by date and source
- A searchable index of every mention of a specific name or date
- A 'Case Summary' PDF listing your top 10 pieces of evidence
Case index (illustrative excerpt) ----------------------------------- ID: E-014 | Date: 2024-03-12 | Source: school-district-email.pdf Tags: education, custody-related | Relevance: High (user confirmed) Linked: E-003, E-009 ID: E-015 | Date: 2024-03-18 | Source: text-export.txt Tags: communication | Relevance: Medium (review suggested)
Limits and distribution
- No public download or hosted runner is linked from this site yet—see distribution note below.
- Cannot currently read handwritten notes with 100% accuracy
- Large video files may need to be processed separately
- Does not provide legal advice on which documents to include
- Local installation (Private)
- Nora Foundation Managed (Verified Access Required)
Installers and private releases are not linked from this public page. The description matches the tool we ship to collaborators; use Join or Community if you need access or setup help.
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