MAXQDA 2018

A memo in MAXQDA is a place to write notes, questions, and hypotheses about your coded data. Think of a memo like a sticky-note you are attaching to a file.

Memos can be attached to individual codes or to text that you have highlighted.

To attach a memo to an individual code, you:

• Click on the code's name, which will reveal the adjacent highlighted text.

• Right click on that text and a box will appear, where one of the options is Insert Memo for Selection.

• Click on that and the below memo box will appear.

Please note:

• Clicking on the calendar icon allows you to add the date and time when you wrote the memo.
• You can rename the memo, as well as pull in linked codes to it.
• Once you are finished writing a memo, close the box and a yellow post-it will appear next to the code. This post-it signals to you that there is a memo attached to this code or block of text. If you hover over the memo icon, you will see its contents.

To attach a memo to a document:

• Go to the Document System, and right click on a document. A box will appear where one of the options is Memo. You click that and the same memo box from above will appear.
• Just fill out the memo information and close it. A yellow post-it will appear next to the document to let you know that the memo is attached.

• You do the same process to attach a memo to the Code System. The memos look the same.

This feature of MAXQDA allows you to link together text in the same or in two different documents. Once you make a link, clicking it opens the corresponding text in the second location. To link text together:

• Go to the Document Browser and open a document.
• Choose the text you want to link by highlighting it. (You can also click on a code, which will automatically highlight its adjacent text.)
• Click the Insert Document Link tab,  .

• Go to the second location and highlight the text you want to link together.
• Click the same link button,  ,  and the two sections of the documents are now linked together. The linked text in both places will be underlined and in another color, here blue. When you click on either part of the underlined text, MAXQDA will take you to the other half of the linked text.

To add an external web link to a document, you want to:

• Open a document in the Document Browser.
• You then want to highlight the text you want to add a web link to.

• Right click and a window will pop up where you can choose Insert Web link.

• Enter in the web address:

• Click OK.
• The text that has the web link attached will be underlined and in a new color, here blue. You can then click on it and be taken to that website. If you hover your browser over this highlighted, colored text the web link will pop up.