Taguette (a homophone of "tag it") is a free, open source, very basic, easy to use qualitative analysis software program. It works on all operating systems and has a very small learning curve. With Taguette, users can import pdfs, word docs (.docx), text files (.txt), HTML, EPUB, MOBI, open documents (.odt), and Rich Text Files (.rtf).
After uploading documents, users can highlight words, sentences, or paragraphs and tag them with codes that you create. All the work done in Taguette is completely exportable. The interface is currently available in multiple languages. Learn more about using Taguette via their getting started guide and FAQ.
You can install Taguette on your own computer with instructions and files from https://taguette.org/install.html. If you need to collaborate on your qualitative project, you can use the free online server maintained by the developers of Taguette at https://app.taguette.org.
Once you have installed Taguette, or logged onto app.taguette.org, you will see a page that greets you as the admin and has a button to Create a project. Click that button and you'll be prompted to enter a Title and Description for your new project. This can be changed later on if you want.
Upon clicking Create, you'll be taken the Project View, which has a left and a right pane. The left pane contains the information about your project information ('Project Info'), uploaded materials ('Documents'), and tags ('Highlights') as tabs. You can go between these tabs as you like. The right pane will show documents and is the area where you'll do the highlighting and tagging.
To upload a document, navigate to the left pane, click on the Documents tab. You should see a button that says Add a document. Click that and pick just one text document from your computer. You'll be prompted to give the new document a Name and Description (like a note about the file, although this step is optional). When you have picked a document and given it a name, click the Import button. You should then see that file immediately in the Documents tab. If not, just refresh the page and it will appear.
New projects always have one existing tag (or codes, if you're familiar with qualitative research): 'interesting'. This is just there to get you started -- you can add and remove tags however you'd like. To view all your existing tags, click the Highlights tab in the left pane. You should see a list of existing tags for the project - again, if you haven't added any yet, you will still see 'interesting'. To add your own tags to this project, click Create a tag. You will get a popup asking you for the Name and Description of the tag you want to create.
Once you have created tags, you can highlight the documents you uploaded. Click on the document and it will populate in the right pane. Once you see the text, select by left-clicking and dragging your cursor over the text you'd like to highlight. Once you let go of your left-click, a pop-up that says new highlight will appear next to the highlighted text. Click the pop-up that says "new highlight', and you will get a list of existing tags from which to choose. You can select one or more tags to apply to the highlighted text.
