Update: in modern years, a tool called Verbatim exists, that allows for flowing to be done in Excel. The drawback is that you lose some flexibility, because you can’t draw freeform arrows or unconventional symbols. The benefit is that you can type faster than you can write, you can copy and paste, you can keep files organized more easily than physical papers, and there are lots of community tools and support and macros. There are also some electronic tools for speech writing that let you easily import cards from various files into word, quickly reassembling arguments from indexed files into mostly coherent works of writing, but I didn’t attend a school that encouraged the use of electronic evidence, so I don’t have much experience working with those.
Update: in modern years, a tool called Verbatim exists, that allows for flowing to be done in Excel. The drawback is that you lose some flexibility, because you can’t draw freeform arrows or unconventional symbols. The benefit is that you can type faster than you can write, you can copy and paste, you can keep files organized more easily than physical papers, and there are lots of community tools and support and macros. There are also some electronic tools for speech writing that let you easily import cards from various files into word, quickly reassembling arguments from indexed files into mostly coherent works of writing, but I didn’t attend a school that encouraged the use of electronic evidence, so I don’t have much experience working with those.