Why no love for TagNotate?

Posted by Carrot
Nov 19, 2018 at 07:13 PM

Around ten years ago several friends and I got together to plan a note-taking software that would do exactly what you, me, and a lot of other people want: an note-taking application that allows tagging of content. This feature is critical for all qualitative data analysis software (QDA applications). Most QDA apps are expensive and have very restrictive licenses.

However, one of the QDA vendors, ResearchWare produces a product called HyperResearch which is priced reasonably, especially the student version, and can be run from a USB pen drive which makes it invaluable to researchers who move from computer to computer. Despite snail-pace development of their products, the company finally released HyperReserach 4 earlier this year which includes the ability to tag PDF documents in addition to wordprocessor documents, audio files and video. Compared to the big players of AtlasTI and MaxQDA, their interface is dull, PDF editor, audio and video editors are quite simplistic, but they get the job done. And for a price that is much lower than the big names.

I’m not affiliated with ResearchWare. They have a good product that is strangely not used very much it appears.

Dellu wrote:
> 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).
>