In simple English
Researchers often read dozens of long text files and interview transcripts. They need to highlight interesting quotes and organize them into groups. Commercial software for this work costs hundreds of dollars per user. This tool is free, open source, and runs on your own computer. It costs you nothing in money, but you need some time to set it up.
What it is
Taguette is an open-source qualitative research tool written in Python. It lets you import text documents and tag specific paragraphs for analysis.
What it is good for
This tool suits students and independent researchers who need to organize interview notes or literature reviews without paying for expensive proprietary software.
- Supports many file formats including PDF, Word documents, and EPUB files.
- Lets you export your highlights and tags for writing your final paper.
- Runs locally on your computer to keep your research notes private.
- Requires comfort with the command line for a local development installation.
- Lacks advanced quantitative text analysis or automated coding features.
- The latest release is from 2019, so active feature updates are slow.
Expensive commercial qualitative data analysis software and manual highlighter pens on paper printouts.
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git clone https://gitlab.com/remram44/taguette.git cd taguette poetry install poetry shell taguette --debug