
So, if you are going to invest a lot of your personal time and energy in curating your Internet findings (i.e. Kippt, Spingpad, Delicious (to some extent), etc.). Too many bookmarking and tagging companies have stopped or have gone bankrupt these last years (e.g. This is very sad, unfortunate and creates a no go decision for any seasoned user.
There are many different ways you can use Evernote to gather your materials.Correct and open export of bookmarks and tags are not possible This means that Pocket is (currently) a total lock-in. If you are working in the office, you can use the desktop version of Evernote to clip web pages, make notes and keep to-do lists. If you are working in the field, you can use Evernote on your smartphone or tablet to record field observations, record interviews or take photos of research settings and participants.Īs you create notes in Evernote, you can add tags to them-you can use this as a preliminary coding technique. For example, if you made an observational note about access to medical services in a remote community, you could add the tags remote, medical services. The tags can be converted into codes when you import your notes into NVivo, and the entire content of the note will be coded to these codes. Import & organize files Which import method should I use? Import fromĬonnect to your Evernote account from within NVivo, and then select the notes (or notebooks) that you want to import. This is the simplest way to import your notes.įolders are automatically created for your notebooks and all the notes from a particular notebook will be grouped together in a folder.Įxport a notebook or selected notes from Evernote to a. enex file, and then in NVivo choose to import notes from an Evernote export file. This method can be useful when you regularly use the desktop version of Evernote, and have a large amount of data to import (for example, a large number of notes with attached video clips).
In this situation, you may find it is quicker to import the notes from your computer than download them from your Evernote account. If you use this method, the structure of your notebooks is not preserved. If you want to keep the notes from each notebook in separate folders in NVivo, you should import each notebook separately.
You can import individual notes or entire notebooks into NVivo. When you import your Evernote notes, they are generally converted to document or PDF files-other file types (for example, audio or picture files) may be created, depending on the type of content you have within your notes. Contents of the noteĭocument file which you can edit in NVivoĪ web page which was clipped and saved to Evernote via Evernote Web Clipper.Įither a PDF file or a document file, depending on how you clipped the web page.