A parks investigator pastes an entire public Facebook thread into Word without marking which comment is the actual finding. What should the notes do instead?
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Short Explanation
A box of raw ingredients is not the plated dish, and a dumped thread is not the finding. Save the capture, then write the claim next to the exact comment that supports it. Reviewers should never have to guess which line mattered.
Full Explanation
OSINT notes distinguish raw evidence from the analytical claim drawn from it. Pasting an entire thread without identifying the supporting comment forces reviewers to reverse-engineer the finding and invites over-reading unrelated chatter. Deleting the thread or collapsing comments into an unsigned paragraph destroys that distinction. The investigator should retain the capture and explicitly quote or pinpoint the artifact that justifies the conclusion.