Why no love for TagNotate?

Posted by Mirce
Oct 10, 2018 at 06:26 AM

Dellu wrote:

>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.

I just checked this by sending an annotated pdf from TagNotate to PDFViewer and GoodReader - the highlights and notes taken in TN are are correctly transferred, i.e. visible. However, the tags are not shown of course.

>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.

I must confess that I never heard of these applications. They seem really powerfull, but also daunting. Especially this commenting on the quotations seems very useful.
But the price of Atlas Ti - really frightening. 930€ for a single user, non-commercial license. :(

BTW, I contacted the developer of TN regarding a Windows version - no plans for that he answered.