I’m never tired of recommending Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) software (like MAXQDA, Nvivo, ATLAS.ti) to do literature review, especially for a big project. Myself is using MAXQDA to my thesis project. I can imagine my lit review would have been a disaster without it. Here is the reason why👇
An additional reason I can think about is that QDA software is one of the closest instruments to achieve what so-called Syntopical Reading, proposed by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren in his famous book—How to Read a Book.
In the same tweet thread, I add a reference to a blog about how to use QDA (Nvivo in this case) to do lit review. The blogger even made a video demo. Highly recommended to have a look!
ps. @msteffens 's in-progress app—Keypoints—might be a powerful tool to do research👇
