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Cloud Outliner
Organize your thoughts and manage your projects by creating and sharing outlines between your various devices and your Evernote account, allowing for collaboration and distribution.
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te.to.te
Differs from other note-taking and drawing applications by making collaboration central to design and operation; ties in with your Google account allowing for brainstorming and public/private sharing of drawings, images, and documents
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iDo Notepad
Note-taking application well-suited for keeping diaries or journals, add multiple entries, search and sort notes, assign unique icons to code different topics or kinds of notes, and use calendar to select different dates notes
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Mindomo
Mind-map plans and ideas by creating thought chains to show detail and clarity to your creative flow of ideas, display central ideas and link connecting thoughts, assign task to each idea, and sync and share ideas with others
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CaptureNotes
Write, type, or record audio notes; pinpoint critical items with Flags; import PDFs; add and take photos; and share notes to Dropbox and Evernote
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Penultimate
Handwrite, scribble, and sketch notes; draw pictures, charts, and tables; utilizie handwriting recognition tool; and sync with Evernote to search your notes on any computer or mobile device you use
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SenseMaker
Capture pictures, recordings and writing in various combinations, allow respondents to reflect how they are making sense of the world and then interpret their own stories into a series of abstract constructs
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WordPress
Use a blog to create and edit posts; write, add photos, and create links; and moderate, edit, or reply to comments
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nativeye
Gather real-time, real-place insight from customers' experiences, conduct mobile ethnography, gain instant insight from mobile research communities, and facilitate secret shoppers
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Notes Plus
Tools for writing, drawing and marking up files, and recording audio notes with a wide selection of typefaces, colors, point size for type, line thickness for drawing, and even opacity for highlighting; importing existing files and images; and organize and share files
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EthnoHub
Cloud-based tool for researchers to prompt mobile phone users to email diary entries with text and/or photos) and code the data and to capture clues and findings
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PaperDesk
Take notes by writing and typing on the same page with a large selection of colors and font styles; record audio, add images/pictures, and sketch on the same page; manage notes in scrapbooks; and share/export files
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Notability
Capture ideas, share insights, and present information by integrating handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing notes
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UPAD
Scribble and write thoughts and ideas, add photos to highlight or accentuate ideas, and draw and sketch figures and images
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Qualvu Mobile App
Video consumer feedback application allows consumers to record responses to investigator's information needs while shopping, using a product, or whenever convenient and familiar for them
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Endnote
View, edit, organize, and share bibliographic research material and PDFs from EndNote by utilizing tools for searching, organizing, and sharing research, and creating bibliographies
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Popplet
A mindmapping app to incorporate photos and drawings so visual thinkers can merge pictures with prose
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PaperPort Notes
Note taking and document mark-up app for combining documents, web content, audio, typed text, and hand written notes into a single, sharable document
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PaperFetch
4-in-1 product designed to simplify PubMed management with automated multi-paper download and PDF self-organizing algorithms
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Qwiki
Turn pictures and videos from events captured on iPhone into brief movies and then share the movies via Facebook, Twitter, Email or SMS, and also embed them on a blog or web page
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GoodReader
Read, highlight, and underline PDF documents; add personal notes; upload, save, and share files; and sync all versions on multiple devices
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inScribe
Note taking application for typing notes with the virtual keyboard or draw with your finger; add photos, resizable shapes and pre-drawn stencils; create and playback audio recordings; e-mail notes as PDF files; and search for text across all your notebooks
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SimpleMind
Mind mapping tool for brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device with built-in visual styles; and for sharing with Dropbox integration.
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Mobilenoter
Note-taking application for syncing with Microsoft OneNote notebooks, handwriting input and drawing, audio recording and playing media in your notes; and adding, moving and deleting images on your pages
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YouTube Capture
Record video in fewer clicks and less lag time; edit with automatic color correction, stabilization, trimming, and music tracks; and upload videos to YouTube, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter simultaneously, or share privately with friends and family
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Capture
Capture and upload audio, video, and images from your iPad then publish and share with clients and colleagues via the ActiveGroup Lobby for mobile ethnography and shop-alongs
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MAXQDA Mobile App
Import photos, videos, text documents, and audio via Dropbox to your desktop MAXQDA
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Simplenote
Keep notes, lists, ideas, and more on the web, your mobile device, and your computer; and find notes quickly with instant searching and simple tags
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Springpad
Create Springpads with things you find on the web or on the go: clip an article, snap a photo, scan a product barcode, record a voice memo, or save a place nearby; and then access it anytime, anywhere
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OneNote Mobile
Take new notes with text, pictures, and bullets including audio notes and open existing OneNote notebooks on mobile devices; and then keep notes in sync using Microsoft SkyDriveŽ online storage to access, edit and manage notes from your PC or almost any web browser
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UX Recorder
Records on-screen activity and gestures along with video from the front facing camera and audio; intended to replace a document camera for recording user testing sessions of mobile Web sites
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TagPad
Record interviews with an animated interview schedule displaying your interview questions and recording the interview and dynamically tagging the recorded audio by question for quick access and preliminary analysis
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ethos - Ethnographic Observation System
Both a mobile device application for conducting fieldwork and a link to a web-based project management system
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Revelation Mobile
Mobile device app seamlessly integrates with Revelation Project, making it simple to add mobile projects into larger studies
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Evernote
A suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving
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AudioNote Notepad and Voice Recorder
Combines a notepad with an audio recorder to create synchronized notes with audio
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EthnoCorder
Multimedia enabled field research with over 20 types of multimedia elements that can be used in either questions or responses
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myResearch
Field market research application for capturing live point-in-time feedback from respondents using video, audio, image recording and quantitative data
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FocusGroup
Conducting live feedback research via focus groups with anonymous feedback
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Over The Shoulder
Allows users to answer questions and provide opinions for research purposes with in-the-moment ideas, photos, videos and innovation inspiration
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Observe
Collect data in the field, add codes for specific phenomena, mark transcription times, and share with colleagues
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Liveminds
Enables participants to share thoughts and record experiences in 1-to-1 Interviews, Group Discussions, Auto Ethnography, and Diaries & Blogs
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MyInsights
Conduct qualitative research connected to a closed web environment, where projects can be created, participants and observers can be invited and where you can view and download the results
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myServiceFellow
Mobile ethnography for service design via customer structured research based on perceived service sequence and service components importance through journey mapping and touchpoints sequences
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dscout
Web and mobile service to engage scouts in sharing real-world experiences, in the moment ideas and real-time feedback
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Lifelapse
Captures your life by taking a picture every 30 seconds and lets you share it through a one-minute video
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Instaviz
Pocket whiteboard for sketching rough shapes and lines, and turning them into laid-out diagrams
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QuickVoice
Record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, interviews, and entire lectures and multi-session seminars
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Interview Assistant
Platform to prepare, conduct, document, and review interviews
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Recorder
Use as a voice recorder or sound recorder to record memos, discussions, interviews, and ideas
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MyNotes
Create and manage notes, lists, and clippings, store ideas and thoughts, or write a diary
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MindNode
Mindmapping application for collecting, organizing and outlining your thoughts and ideas as mind maps for to-do lists, brainstorming, research, writing, and project management
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Recall It!
Create notes with text and pictures, and then assign tags to each note so you can recall them
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YouNote
Take different types of note like AudioNote, PictNote, DrawNote, TextNot, WebNote and MultiNote
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iTalk
Record conversations, interviews, speeches, performances, and the sounds of nature up to CD-quality sound, and then email your recordings or sync them through iTunes
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Audio Memos
Voice recorder with simple and intuitive interface pause record, pause play, slider, quality control, volume meter, volume boost, volume normalizing, voice activated recording features
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Dragon Dictation
Voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking to speak and instantly see text content for everything from email messages to blog posts
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Best Dictation
Virtually divide an audio file and play each part repeatedly so you can divide an audio file of an interview or speech into several sentences and listen each sentence repeatedly
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Dedoose
Web app to analyze text, video, and spreadsheet data through the integration of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method approaches
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Wordle
Generate "word clouds" from text that you provide, give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text, and tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes
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nineteen
Designed to allow quick visually-assisted explorations of large qualitative/quantitative datasets to help researchers to spot patterns through easy access to visually-coded and abstracted representations of their data
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Many Eyes
Choose your data set, upload it to the web, select a visualization method, customize your visualization output, and publish your results
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Fineo
Implements a visualization technique based on the Sankey diagram for visualizing continuous data and representing relations between categorical data
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Gelphi
Interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs
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TagCrowd
Web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud
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MindMeister
Create, view and edit conceptual mind maps, share them with friends and colleagues online, and sync with the online MindMeister service
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QUALocator
Comprehensive online search and comparison resource for qualitative research facilities and related technology providers developed in collaboration with the Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA)
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Cohdoo Highlight
Shine new light on recording user research, interviews, lectures, and more by starting a recording, marking "aha" moments as you hear them, pausing and resuming the same recording, adding more highlights, reviewing your highlights, adding notes and sharing recordings with your team
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FieldNotes
A note taking tool to take on the road for locating your position using GPS, viewing a satellite map of the location, taking notes, collecting photographs all in geo-referenced format, and then transmit this information via e-mail as a kmz or text to any destination
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SoundNote
Tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, and while playing back your recording, tap a word and SoundNote will jump to that point in the audio
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NoteBooks
Allows you to create as many virtual books as you need to write, store and structure your detailed notes, and serves as a repository for all your journals, ideas, notes, drafts, diaries, projects, task lists and everything else you want to keep close at hand
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NoteBook
Focuses on simple functionality for creating, sharing, and editing your notes and allows you to share your notes from anywhere with Dropbox sync so you can collaborate with others, keep your notes on all your iOS devices, and add, edit, and modify them on your Mac and PC
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iAnnotate
Productivity tool for reading, annotating, organizing, and sending PDF files allowing you to add detailed notes to your annotations that inform you or your collaborators of your opinions and decisions and with bookmarks, you can set and navigate directly to the relevant information, passages, and annotations
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Note Taker HD
Write and organize handwritten notes, diagrams, etc. and annotate PDF files, organize them by tags, date/time last modified, favorites, and email one or more pages as a single PDF file
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Corkulous
Provides a virtual "corkboard" for visualizing tasks, notes and images, for moving them around for mind mapping, and for sharing with others via Dropbox
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iThoughts
Mind mapping tool enables you to visually organize your thoughts, ideas and information for list making, brainstorming, project planning, goal setting, concept mapping, and note taking activities
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Mendeley Reference Manager (Lite)
Indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital library, gathers document details from your PDFs allowing you to effortlessly search, organize and cite, looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs and other related document details automatically, and imports papers from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, and IEEE
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PubMed On Tap
Searches PubMed to find and display reference information stores references (with pdfs) in your personal and searchable library, retrieves pdfs from the Web, and e-mails references (with pdfs) from within the application
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