For these, the quotation-commenting system presented in AtlasTI is much more practical. Reading, understanding, and reflecting are my focuses. I want to use them as a hub to knowledge management, not merely coding specific parts.Ĭoding is not the main focus of my workflow. My intention is mostly to use these applications to read PDF files, understand the concepts, reflect on them, and develop them in new directions. Almost every feature of the application is about the code. The application is tuned to manipulate the codes not that much of the original texts. As I understand the MAXQDA, the whole system is tuned to people attempt to put their materials into a structured spreadsheet-like system after coding (tagging) every bit of it. There is no advanced document manager unlike in Atlas. Reading and annotating a document are second citizens with MaxQDA. That might be fine for some people whose intention is an extensive coding of text. The whole focus of Maxqda is the code (=tags): not on texts and concepts. But, the software has some design directions that made it not so convenient for my use. As it turns out, the application (the code) is brilliantly done. If one counts the number of features embedded into MaxQDA, they could be twice more than that of the AtlasTi.īut, as I dig deeper, I find some disconcerting worries. But, to be honest, I was totally in love with the interface of the Maxqda. It looks like a Windows application on the mac, in contrast to Atlas which is a truly Mac app. Even if there is a huge mess of menus and functions, I love the whole interface of Maxqda. MaxQDA is also extremely polished and clean. In addition, unlike the other two, Max can import RTFD files. Dragging a bunch of text files, NVIVO took more than 30 minutes Atlas imported them in about 12 minutes: Max did it in just over 1 minute. I was impressed how fast it imports the documents in comparison to NVIVo specifically. Maxqda is much faster when importing documents. These two QDA applications are truly amazing. The real comparison turns out to be between AtlasTi and MaxQDA. Indeed, if not for the dysfunctional pdf reader, I won’t have to pay for QDA software as my university already offers NVIVO for free. Therefore, the easiest of the decision was to dismiss NVIVO. The pdf reader lacks navigation features such as the bookmark and outline. The Pdf reader is mediocre: not that functional. NVIVO is generally the slowest of all the three and has the least features. I spend a couple of days learning about each of the software: trying with sample projects, watching tutorials etc. I was fascinated by these two applications, in addition to NVIVO.
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