Selections

A selection is a time range on the day timeline that you've marked off for later. You build selections by hand as you scrub through the day, then export them all at once as airchecks when you're done.

You can have any number of selections active at once. Each one is drawn as a translucent shaded region across all lanes.

Making a Selection

Selections are bracketed by the [ and ] keys, like a quotation:

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Scrub or play to the moment where the selection should start.
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Press [. DayTracker drops the start edge at the current playhead position.
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Scrub or play to where the selection should end.
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Press ]. DayTracker commits the selection and adds it to the list.

You can keep going from there — start another selection somewhere else on the day, or refine the one you just made.

Refining a Selection

Grab either edge of an existing selection and drag it left or right to fine-tune the boundary. The edge snaps as you go, so it's easy to land on a marker boundary or an exact second.

Deleting a Selection

Click and hold inside a selection. After a brief delay the selection turns red and is removed. The brief delay is deliberate — a quick click anywhere on the timeline still seeks; only a sustained click deletes.

Selection Shortcuts

Key	Action
`[`	Mark start of a new selection at the playhead.
`]`	Mark end of the current selection and commit it.
`C`	Clear all selections on the current day.
`⌘`+`Z`	Undo the last selection change. Works after a Clear, too — your selections come back exactly as they were.
`E`	Export all current selections as airchecks. Opens the export dialog with every selection pre-listed.

Exporting Selections as Airchecks

Once you have a few selections marked, press E (or use the Export Selections button) to turn them all into MP3 airchecks at once. Each selection becomes one MP3 file, named with the date, time range, and any label you've attached.

By default selections are exported as-is — exactly the range you marked, cut at the second. If you want them cut at hour boundaries instead, choose the Round to hour option in the export dialog and DayTracker will widen each selection to the nearest hour edge on each side.

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Selections aren't part of the recording itself. They live in a small per-day file alongside the audio so they survive a restart of DayTracker. Clearing selections with C removes them from the screen but you can always bring them back with ⌘Z.