You have the option to add one short comment to each coded segments. This can be a summary of the coded segment or a comment about its significance to your analysis. Comments are especially useful for category development.
The difference between memos and comments is explained in the following blog post:
To create a comment for a coded segment in the "Document Browser": Double-click on a coding stripe or on a code name - or right-click on the coding stripe and select Edit Comment .
A window will appear in which you can enter the comment. The comment can contain up to 511 characters, which corresponds to approximately 4 short sentences. Use Shift + Enter (⇧ + ↵) to create a line break.
You can easily determine if a comment has been written for a coded segment when you look at its coding stripe. Normally the inner part of the little circle is white in color, independent of the color of the code symbol. When a comment is attached, the inner circle appears in the same color as the outer line of the symbol. If you hold the mouse on the coding stripe, the comment appears in the tooltip.
Displaying comments on the sidebar of the “Document Browser“
Click on the sidebar icon in the head of the "Document Browser" window to open a sidebar next to the text listing all written comments in boxes.
Right-click into the sidebar to see further display options and to optionally also display memos at the same time.
Edit and search your comments in the “Overview of Coded Segments“
As long as you haven’t changed the standard view, you can search all of your comments in the “Overview of Coded Segments” table in the second column. Here, you can also insert new comments and delete/edit existing ones. By right-clicking on the column header, the overview is sorted according to this header. You can search for comments by right-clicking on the "Comment" column header and selecting Search.
