5.2. Journals
You can record your thoughts when coding your data in journals. Make use of 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.
The font of the journal text uses the documents font, found in the Settings.
There is a search option to search through journal text. The search uses regex symbols for more 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 order journals by name or modified 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.
Some markdown is available to highlight wording in a journal. Using one to three hash symbols for heading levels. Single asterix surrounding words for italic text. Double asterix surround text for bold text.
