Highlightshero Pn
Highlights and tags are available on all Free, Professional, and Enterprise plans. However, creating custom tags is only available on Professional and Enterprise plans.
Managers and Contributors can create highlights and tags.

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Overview

The power of Dovetail lies in highlighting and breaking down key information in text, documents, or video transcripts. These highlights can be grouped under tags, embedded, and shared in insights to connect your findings back to the raw data collected. Highlights made in transcripts from video and audio content create individual, searchable clips. These clips are a powerful way to share stories about your research and bring your customers into the room.

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Create highlights for important moments

You can surface information in your data by highlighting text in data added to a project. This could be text in transcripts created from a customer call or documents like industry reviews, presentations, or academic papers. There are two ways to create highlights in your data:
  • To create a highlight, select a section of text in your data and select Highlight from the action menu.
If you’re a power user, you can quickly create highlights by selecting a section of text and then pressing Tab on your keyboard to cycle through the action menu.

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View all highlights within a note

You can quickly view all highlights within a note from the note sidebar . Simply open the highlights tab by pressing the highlight icon on the right-hand side of a note. Here, you’ll see all highlights in the order that they appear on the note. Clicking on a highlight in the note sidebar will scroll the note to the relevant section of the note content.

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Resize your highlights

You can adjust the start or end position of your highlights by clicking on the highlight and moving drag handles.
At this time, highlights in a document cannot be resized once they’re created. If you need to make any changes, you must remove the highlight and create it again.

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Watch a highlights only video

Once you’ve started creating highlights on notes with video or audio files, you’ll see a new tab appear above the video/audio player at the top of the note titled Highlights only. Navigating to this tab will present you with a condensed version of your video/audio that contains only the highlighted sections. You can also download and share this video to others. To do this, select Download from within the video player.

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Share a highlight

You can quickly share a highlight with your team while reviewing your note data.
  • To do this, click on your highlight and select Share.
  • From there, select Copy link to highlight and paste this link in Slack, Teams, Notion, or other available tools for others to preview the highlighted content.

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Group highlights under a tag

Tags help you group related highlights together. A single highlight can have one or many tags associated with it, and a single tag can have many highlights associated with it. Tags can be created from two places:
  • Within a note: Drag over a section of text within a note, and select Tag from the action menu. From there, you can create a new tag to group your highlight under.
  • On a tag board: By opening a tag board, you can create a new tag by selecting + New tag from any group within the board.
Learn more about using tags in your projects →

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