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Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 15, 2014 at 12:06 PM
Hm, that side-by-side thing sounds damn cool. I’m going to have to play. It’s always nice to hear directly from a responsive developer, too!
A silly question (I’m so busy currently, I haven’t had time to view the videos, let alone download the trial), so forgive me if the answer’s obvious: can tagged segments of text overlap? Even if some of the tags are sub-tags of other tags (used to tag segments of text overlapping with that particular segment of text)?
I suspect/expect a positive answer to that, but would love to know.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 15, 2014 at 01:25 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
> can tagged segments of text overlap? Even if some of the tags
>are sub-tags of other tags (used to tag segments of text overlapping
>with that particular segment of text)?
Yup, that seems to work very well, nicely colour-coded (you can see it here in less than a min.):
http://youtu.be/I60-lrpQvig?t=1m26s
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 15, 2014 at 03:36 PM
Dang, that’s seriously cool. Oh dear. Temptation is lurking in the underbrush…
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 16, 2014 at 10:08 AM
Hm. Temptation has been fairly easily repelled, since the commercial price of GBP 400, while not ridiculous (especially not by the standards of qualitative analysis software) is nevertheless not exactly an inducement to an impulse buy. But I’ve been watching the videos and have now downloaded the trial. If this works as well as the videos suggest, it’s a seriously impressive tool with a very broad range of potential applications.
In particular, I think the way the categorisation and search engine can be used seamlessly together is very elegant. The way you can create source metadata fields on the fly which are then shared across the entire source repository is an outstanding idea (shades of Idealist). And the reporting looks interesting, too. As you say, Dr Andus, the whole thing has been designed for overlapping categories, subcategories etc., but manages to suggest that it’s still very easy to use. The fact that it’s programmed for cross-platform use (including mobile) from the get-go suggests the development team are well-grounded in today’s realities! Just waiting for the iOS version now, of course…
So. The trial will show whether, after having used all these wonderful features to analyse a bunch of source texts, one can then produce some kind of meaningful, structured, conclusion-enabling output. I have a vast store of documents dealing with my main obsessions, so should be able to generate some meaningful output fairly quickly (when I can find time to do some analysis).
Also nice to find that the developers are based just down the road in Edinburgh! Might have to go and talk to them about my Ultimate Authoring Tool concept…
Posted by Dr Dan
Nov 18, 2014 at 09:42 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Hm. Temptation has been fairly easily repelled, since the commercial
>price of GBP 400, while not ridiculous (especially not by the standards
>of qualitative analysis software) is nevertheless not exactly an
>inducement to an impulse buy. But I’ve been watching the videos and have
>now downloaded the trial. If this works as well as the videos suggest,
>it’s a seriously impressive tool with a very broad range of potential
>applications.
Thanks - yes, the licence looks pricey, but our commercial customers expect a high standard of prompt support, by e-mail and especially phone, (which isn’t available for other tiers) and this is expensive to provide.
>Also nice to find that the developers are based just down the road in
>Edinburgh! Might have to go and talk to them about my Ultimate Authoring
>Tool concept…
Would love to hear about it! Quirkos is very new, so feedback and suggestions for features you’d like to see are always welcome (daniel@quirkos.com). Do let me know next time you are in town.
We are hoping to have the iOS version ready next year, the Android and Linux versions are only a few months away…