Why no love for TagNotate?

Posted by Dellu
Oct 9, 2018 at 04:04 PM

Mirce wrote:

>What is your take on Tagnotate? Do you find the concept useful or are
>the use-cases in your cases too exotic?
>Are there any other apps which are similar regarding this functionality?
>(and I mean really similar, not “similar.to” like similar).

I have tried Tagnotate. I think I was a bit worried that the annotations made with the app are not visible other pdf reading applications.

But, I love the idea of tagging paragraphs (bullet points) and being able to drill down into the individual tags. That is exactly why I have been using Atlas.Ti, Nvivo and MaxQda. Almost all the quantitative data analysis software follow the same strategy. You annotate a specific part (paragraph), quote it as well in the case of Atlas Ti, and tag (code it). You can then construct a collection of documents or quotations across documents using the tags.

It is a very neat way of reading and processing information. I find Atlas Ti much more efficient because of the quotations; and that I can write comments, titles, and summaries to the quotations. But, the license is very expensive.
I paid a hefty cost; and works only for 2 years. That has been a big problem to me.

Thank you for bringing Tagnotate to our attention. I will check it again (if it can replace at least part of the functions of the Atlas Ti).