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Product Description:
AnalyzeText ist a powerful text commenting tool:
Use the increasing number of high quality electronic texts in the internet to really 'work' with them (e.g. in philological, philosophical or jurisprudential studies) and take advantage of the comfort provided by electronic text sources.
AnalyzeText allows to structure the text according to your needs with virtual pagebreaks and sections - to define the actual position in the text at any point.
Set color markers to highlight important text passages and comment them on reeditable virtual flash cards.
Use specific colors to regroup comments and markers.
Smart features as 'search' in all comments and a highliy flexible folder system will keep track of, sort and classifiy the comments.
Create a concordance of your text version to sort the source text by alphabetical order or frequency.
Features to come:
- Print all or a list of selected comments.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (3.0) |
Support: | (2.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (1.0) |
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Good start, but.. - Version: 1.0, 1/6/2006 01:55AM PST
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tokere
An application such is this is what I have been hoping for since I started with OS X 10.1. I will use it for qualitative analysis of fieldwork translations. It is the first serious attempt to make a 'computer assisted qualitative data analysis software' (CAQDAS) program that uses the powers of OS X. There are two other competitors, Hyperresearch and TAMS, both cross platform. TAMS is very advanced, but lacking in the user interface department and in the utilization of native cocoa element. The carbon-based Hyperresearch has been stalled in development for years, with focus on the Windows version and still lagging in comparison with its Windows competitors.
As such, I would suggest some future improvements for this app:
- hierarchical comments, and/or hierarchical folders. This would allow for a manual meta-analysis of comments and for making higher order themes visible in the text.
- Support for "smart folders" that autoupdate as you update your comments, like in the Smart folders in the Finder, Mail, etc..
- A project approach, rather than single document one. In my case (and in many other kinds of text analysis) I need to analyze several different text sources.
- Support for more formats, ie. RTF and DOC. Almost all my text is in one of those formats, RTF being the standard format on OS X, and Word THE document standard on Windows. It seems very strange not to include support for them, at least as import possibilities. Another argument in favor of native RTF support is that bold headlines, names, etc. are sometimes useful metainformation when reading a text, hence important to textanalysis.
- A 'report' facility that would sum up the comments of a text (oops, just read the 'coming' features, thats what I meant).
... And this is just the short list.
As you might guess from this, I think the price is a bit steep for what I consider basic functionality.
Toke