search - curated & updated list?

Posted by Jan S.
Apr 9, 2018 at 04:35 PM

Sounds like you’re more interested in analyzing your notes than retrieving particular pieces. Maybe you should look at topic modeling software. That’s quite easy to do when you’re data is in plain text format (.txt, .csv etc.; a lot harder when dealing with .pdf and other binary formats).

Some qualitative data analysis software offers those features. I think MAXQDA is the best of those (ATLAS.ti, NVivo, QDAMiner are other ones).

Leximancer is a specialized solution which automatically produces topical concept maps. https://info.leximancer.com/

There are also several free R packages. (All the software that I’ve mentioned is quite expensive for private/commercial use—between 1k - 3k $)

mdlynam wrote:
Thanks, Jan.
> >I do like X1, it’s my go-to at work. What I like about dtsearch is the
>ability to include synonyms in the search. I also use carrot2 now that
>iMetaSearch is defunct. I really, really, like the ability to see what
>categories my search results fall in to. That kind of auto-analysis
>isn’t fool-proof, but for me it’s a good starting point when assembling
>and making connections between various topics. I’m babbling and
>off-topic now.