Tinderbox as a QDA app (alternative to or along with Atlas.Ti or Maxqda)

Tinderbox Tasks
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I use Tinderbox as a QDA tool to analyze (Chinese language) interviews and legal documents - after previously exploring (and struggling with) atlas.ti and maxqda for the same purpose. My workflow was actually inspired by a video you mentioned in another post: Survey software + Tinderbox - #8 by andreas.

  1. I create plain text files of the primary sources I want to analyze and copy them into TBX.
  2. I “explode” these notes and then assign a prototype to the fragments (which inherit some of the meta data of their original source).
  3. Finally I process these fragments one-by-one, adding notes and assigning tags, categories and occasionally links to them.
  4. After all fragments have been processed, I retrieve the information using the Attribute Browser and use “Copy Note URL” to link to important notes in Scrivener etc.

This works for me because I don’t have visual or video data to analyze (or, for that matter, PDFs) and the granularity of a sentence-based analysis suffices for my purposes.

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