Using a PIM to catalog files and folders

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 14, 2012 at 10:34 AM

Pavi wrote:
>I am not sure how to consolidate my research, since I have
>many pdfs and webpages, not to mention files. These would probably be better suited to
>TreeProjects, using a standard tree format, as storing them with revisions is
>desirable as are automatically imported folders (special folders). However, I am
>completed fascinated by the possibilities of organizing more “free form” in CT. Is
>there any way to store files in the TreeProjects database, and access them (export?)
>in CT, I wonder?

That I don’t know. You might be better off contacting the TreeProjects developer or ask the folks on the ConnectedText forum.

As I said, I think CT is better suited for doing the analysis of content once the data collection is done and you don’t plan to add much new data to those folders. I am now using CT as my main CAQDAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_assisted_qualitative_data_analysis_software). I did however take a seminar in Atlas.ti and taught myself NVivo by watching the tutorial videos and using it extensively for the first half of my project. However after discovering CT I realised that I can not only model all the main processes of NVivo in CT but can even do stuff that NVivo is not good at. Also, CT is much faster and more pliable, not to mention more affordable.

The big thing for me is that I can model my own work flow (analytical steps) and implement it in CT, while in NVivo you are stuck with the imagination of the NVivo developers. Of course NVivo also has some bells and whistles that CT doesn’t have but I found I don’t need those for my purposes.