New interviews are created with a generic name. Renaming one takes seconds and is the difference between a library you can navigate and a list of identical entries.
On iPhone and iPad
- Open the interview.
- Tap the title at the top of the screen.
- The field becomes editable, under the prompt Edit Interview Name.
- Type the new title and confirm.
On Mac
- Open the interview.
- Click the title at the top of the document.
- Type the new title, then press Return or click away.
The change saves with the document and follows it everywhere — into the interview list, into exports, and onto your other devices if the interview is in your iCloud folder.
Titles worth typing
Transcriber searches your transcripts, so you will often find an interview by something that was said in it. On Mac, Search in the toolbar looks through transcript content — its tooltip says as much: Searches for the content of the transcripts.
Titles still matter for the times you are scanning rather than searching. What works is whatever you would say out loud to describe it: who it was with, and what it was about. Rita — pricing objections beats Interview 47 in a way you will appreciate in three months.
Dates already appear next to every interview, so there is little point repeating one in the title.
Sorting and browsing
Once titles mean something, sorting by name becomes useful. On iPhone and iPad, tap SORT in the interview list and choose Name, Date or Duration, ascending or descending.
On Mac you can also switch between List View and Grid View in the toolbar, depending on whether you are reading down a list or recognising something at a glance.