Hi Rémi Rampin,

Thank you for jumping into this thread.

I am not a developer, but am a Mac user and have picked up linux (broadly speaking) as a hobby. I'd be happy to help out however I can to prepare a Mac installer for v 1.4.1. For example, if you shared any notes about the steps you have followed in the past attempts, maybe I could try making my own attempt. This is admittedly a naive suggestion on my part - it sounds difficult actually - but at least I have enought motivation and a Mac to apply toward the challenge.

Concerning highlighting - I thought of an example where I've seen overlapping highlighting work really well. It is in the reference manager Sci Wheel. That online app has a highlighting and annotation feature where multiple colors can be used and they generally have never blocked out the text from getting too dark. I wonder if we can copy some tactic from them.

Taguette is an awesome tool and I do hope we can find a way to foster its development.?

Kind regards,
Nick

Nick:

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I think this makes sense. Your user story overlaps with some of my own. Taguette's current data model leads to the everything-is-a-tag strategy for identifying highlights, whether tags are metadata you place to organize things or analysis-specific codes. Alternatives would be more complex and might partition extra data attached to a highlight such as in your case with a "round" attribute that is somewhat specific to your methodology or for "cases" such as participants who have multiple documents. You could theoretically have user defined properties on highlights such as these, and you could let a user decide how to choose highlight colors based on the properties of a highlight. I think you also hit on something I have noticed, which is that sometimes you want to analyze a document in one "project" but then do another "project" with the same data. Perhaps your research questions or approach is different; yet it might be good to share the exact same documents and potentially toggle on and off the visibility of highlights from other rounds/projects/etc. From what you've said, I am gathering these are the simplest and most important improvements you would value:

Another note is that there are other ways to denote the highlight's location post-creation. For example, there could be a footnote inserted to the text that connects to an ordered list of highlights on a sidebar or a graphic similar to how does it.

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Nicholas

Hi Nicholas,

These are helpful specifying questions. I hadn't given it much thought! I think the top issue is being to visually see overlapping highlights.

Maybe this use story will help.

Recently, I was iteratively changing my coding approach to find insights in my research material.

Each round, I used a different set of codes which were more focused on a specific kind of theme.

To make it work, I would complete a round using a coding approach, decide what I'd read the data for next, and then add unhighlighted copy of the same file to code a different way.

I don't know if I will always iteratively code, but this might match other users' experiences.?(Any others want to share?)

What if a user could change the highlight color for each iteration of their coding approach? The user would need to be able to determine what this means for them?

Thinking through what that might be like, a user might use the highligh colors in some of these ways:

blue is 1st round, yellow is 2nd round ...

OR blue is when I coded in reference to my first RQ, Yellow for my second RQ, etc.,

OR blue is when I coded for examples of innovation, Yellow?for my respondants emotions and feeling, etc.

Thank you for being so responsive and receptive to this dialogue!

Kind regards,

Nick
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Nick:

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Good to know! I wonder if the feature you desire has also to do with visually seeing overlapping highlights or specifically wanting the color feature. What you describe is very much possible; there are lots of features like this I would love to build when I can find the time. A follow up question would be: what tag/code gets to decide the color for a highlight given you could have many tags on one highlight? You could mix or overlay the colors, but that could get weird with many tags. Would you want a single tag to get precedence of the color?

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Nicholas

Hi Njg4ne,

Thanks for the response and suggestion to try runng the Docker version on my Mac.

I looked at your prototype demo video. Those data viewing functions your cooking will be super useful!

The one feature I wish for most is multi-color highlighting, where the highlights are transluscent, and the colors can be assigned to codes. This is because I often find myself wanting to highlight wider or narrower passages in my data.

Kind regards,

Nick

It requires slightly more technical know-how, but the version should work on Mac and not cause you the issues you describe. I am a third-party developer and am very interested in making improvements to Taguette as a user myself, so I would like to know your feedback. I have been working on a post-highlighting analysis tool that is fully browser based, so it requires no installation. At this stage, you'll still have to highlight your data in Taguette and export it to sqlite format: |

Dear Taguette users,

I am a superfan of Taguette. After using Dedoose and Envivo for my qualitative coding, and hearing horror stories about ATLAS.ti,? I believe Taguette is best-in-class for producing archive-ready analysed datasets. It is also great that it is FOSS! I really do hope development is continuing and would be happy to pitch in from a user perspective (I have low programming/coding skills).

Does anyone have a sense for when the MacOS installer for v1.4.1 will come out?? I just tried building it from a clone of the repository using CLI and running Poetry, but I got a messages saying Poetry needed symlinks in the environment. I just don't have time to dive deep into what that is all about. A drag-and-drop MacOS install would be awesome.

Kindest regards,

Nick

Thanks for the speedy reply! This will work for now. If I find myself with some extra time, I may see if I can contribute a patch.

I have the same question. I could temporarily reconfigure taguette to have open registration and restart, but I would prefer to keep registration closed and add new users manually from the admin account? Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!