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Journals

You can record your thoughts when coding your data in journals. Use these to develop ideas and themes. Journals can be exported as a single journal, or all journal text can be collated and exported as a single file. Journals can be deleted. Journals can have attributes.

There is a search option for searching the journal text. The search uses regular expression (regex) symbols for greater flexibility.

• A dot '.' is used as a wild card, e.g., '.ears' will match ‘bears’ and 'years'
• A '?' after a character will match one or none times that character, e.g., 'bears?' will match 'bear' and 'bears'
• A '*' after a character will match zero or more times.
• '.' will match the dot symbol, '\?' will match the question mark. '\n' will match the line ending symbol.

Regex cheatsheet: www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html

You can sort journals by name or date. You can add attributes to journals. You can show rows of journals with a matching text name, coder or attribute value, using the right-click menu function.

The journal window will be free-floating, so that you can enter notes while coding or generating reports.

Highlight journal text using markdown

Some markdown is available to highlight wording in a journal. Use one to three hash symbols for heading levels. Single asterisk surrounding words for italic text. Double asterix surround text for bold text.