Transcript: the extent considered, and the words used

Proposal, 4 Nov 2026. Hovering a quote on the transcript page draws a keyline round the whole stretch the model considered (first word to last), and lifts to white only the words that made it into the cleaned quote. Words inside the keyline that were cut stay on the paper in the same knocked-back ink as text that never became a quote. The example is Ikea tom, session 1, 1:15, the quote that reads "Well, you know, a lot of… household stuff [is] very… utilitarian…" in the Quotes lens.

artefact: what the product would drawcommentary: not the product

Today · pointer over the quoteSessions ▸ s1 ▸ transcript

Proposed · pointer over the quoteSessions ▸ s1 ▸ transcript

Proposed · pointer elsewhereSessions ▸ s1 ▸ transcript

Commentary

What changed from today. Today the whole matched run goes white, so the white says "this was the quote" but includes cut filler, a false start and two whole detours (the water seal; the plastic lids). Proposed: the keyline says what was considered, the white says what was kept. The gaps in the white are the cleaned quote's "…".
Ink. Cut words use the paragraph's existing knocked-back ink (opacity: .6), the same as words in no quote, so there is no new colour. Inside the keyline they read as "looked at, not used".
Tokens only. --bn-colour-paper, --bn-colour-sheet, --bn-colour-text, --bn-colour-muted (keyline hairline for a hidden quote; unused here), the 0.5px keyline and the 3px lift radius are the shipped values. No new variables.
Contrast. The lift is 1.07:1 off the paper (shipped, owner-accepted). Cut words at .6 opacity on paper are the same contrast as unquoted text today. The white patches are small, so the keyline carries the extent; the white carries the used words.
Hover only. At rest nothing changes from today. The checkbox shows the alternative where the keyline and grey cuts stay on all the time.
Not drawn: the editing handle. The ends of the keyline (first and last words) are where a later "move this end" affordance would attach. No handle is drawn here; it needs the persisted anchor first.
Not the product's output. Which words are "used" was hand-marked against the cleaned text. Quotes the matcher only finds roughly keep today's dashed keyline, and would have no reliable used/cut split.
Cost. This needs a per-word used/cut flag the server does not send yet; quoteExtents.ts locates the extent, not the words kept.