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# Add a manual insight

You can report observations directly from the field or office within your inspection corridor and add photos, notes, criticality levels, and change types directly to an insight for more detailed reporting.

Desktop:

1. Click anywhere within your corridor of inspection
2. Choose how to link it: to an existing **Case**, to a **Zone**, or leave it standalone (a new Case will be created for you)
3. Fill in the information that you need to populate
4. Manual insight are represented by a pinpoint

{% hint style="info" %}
**New in V1.22.0** — you can now link a manual insight directly to a **Zone**. This is useful when your observation belongs inside a land inquiry you are already tracking: the insight is stored alongside all other Zone-related evidence, and no new Case is created.

**Updated in V1.24.0** — the Zone option is offered both when you click the map and when you add an insight from your photos. Only **Active** Zones at that location appear in the list, so a **Planned** or **Archived** Zone cannot pick up new evidence by accident.
{% endhint %}

<figure><img src="/files/va8tAWIkFarPKlLcI8CS" alt=""><figcaption><p>Creating a manual Insight</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/J0WAjFZqA9lJPFkTJZlj" alt=""><figcaption><p>Choose to connect it or not to an existing case</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/eOtvLDpvwJLMkJYH0RmQ" alt=""><figcaption><p>Populate the insight and case data</p></figcaption></figure>

### Mobile

The flow is exactly the same except that you have to hold the click to create a manual insight

### Demo

*Manual Insight Creation - Desktop version*

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*Manual Insight Creation - Desktop version*
{% endembed %}

*Manual Insight Creation - Mobile version*

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*Manual Insight Creation - Mobile version*
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### Enhancements


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