# Cutting and Restoring Words (Sashimii Docs, Editing) > Cut and restore words from the transcript or the timeline, answer the pauses and cuts Sashimii flagged, and move a cut edge by hand. Canonical: https://sashimii.app/docs/cutting/ Last updated: 2026-11-02 Every cut in Sashimii is a stretch of the recording taken out. You make and undo them from the transcript or the timeline, and Sashimii places the edges on the waveform for you. ## Cut Words Select words in the transcript and press Delete. The cut’s edges land on the waveform, between words. When you select words, or drag a range on the timeline, a small popover above them offers **Cut** when it holds kept words, **Restore** when it holds cut words (not in Edit view), and **Add Note…**. The keys keep working while it shows. ![Words selected in the transcript, "Just keep talking when you make a", shown in grey, with the selection popover just above them offering Cut and Add Note… (1).](https://sashimii.app/_astro/selection.bFSQepPq.png) 1. **The selection popover**, just above the selected words. ## Restore Words Select struck-through words and press Delete or ⇧ Delete. They come back into the cut. ## Cut on the Timeline - **A range:** drag across the clips (not the ruler or the playhead), then press Delete. - **A whole clip:** double-click it, then press Delete. The cuts on either side become one join; their outer edges don’t move. - **Words:** click a word chip under the waveform (Shift-click to extend). The transcript selects them too. ## Answer a Kept Pause or a Flagged Cut The edge pass leaves some calls to you, and marks them in the flag colour: - **A kept pause**, such as “Pause 0.4s · cut?”: a pause it wasn’t sure about cutting. - **A flagged cut**: a cut that might have taken something you want. Click its chip in the transcript, or click it on the timeline in Source view. **Cut** and **Keep** show above it. For a kept pause, Cut cuts it and Keep keeps it. For a flagged cut, Cut keeps the cut and Keep brings the words back. Either answer clears the flag, as one undo step. ![The same kept pause (1) with the small Cut and Keep popover above it (2).](https://sashimii.app/_astro/pause-answer.qJrADvOs.png) 1. **A kept pause**, in the flag colour: the edge pass left this 0.4-second pause in and asks whether to cut it. 2. **Cut or Keep** answers it. The chip also opens the pause’s details: its length, who kept it, and its out and in times, with **Cut It**, **Accept** and **Play**. ![A kept pause's chip, Pause 0.4s · cut?, between "mistake." and "You" (1), with its popover open: the pause's length, who kept it, its out and in times, and Cut It, Accept and Play.](https://sashimii.app/_astro/kept-pause.DwwwdqUR.png) 1. **The chip** you clicked. **Play** lets you hear the pause before you decide. ## Move a Cut Edge Drag an edge handle on the timeline to move it. Double-click a handle to put it back on the waveform. For frame-accurate work on every join in turn, use [join review](https://sashimii.app/docs/reviewing-joins/). ## Place the Edges Again **Cut › Place Edges on Waveform** (⇧ ⌘ E) runs the edge pass again over the whole cut, the same pass your agent runs at the end of a draft. It moves each edge onto the audio, cuts pauses between kept words, and flags borderline pauses for you. ## Related - [Finding Your Way Around](https://sashimii.app/docs/the-window/) - [Reviewing Joins](https://sashimii.app/docs/reviewing-joins/)