Saturate is a collaborative memoing and coding tool. Activity is organized around projects and you can create any number of projects and invite other users to be part of a project. If you are new to Saturate, you might want to start by watching this short video.

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Adding text data

Saturate allows you to share textual data such as transcripts or field notes. Project members can then write memos about that textual data and apply codes to it.

Saturate also allows you to work with qualitative data that is arranged in a table. For example, if you have a spreadsheet with responses to a survey. The questions may be in the top row of the table (the header) and each participant's responses form the rows in the table.

Tabular data can be pasted into Saturate which will store each participant's responses as separate textual data.

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Working with audio data

If you have audio data (say some recorded interviews) you can upload those recordings and directly code and memo the audio. This video shows you how.

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Memoing

To create a memo, use the memoing tool in Saturate's sidebar. If you want to write a memo about some text data, a code, a category or another memo, first navigate to that object and then use the sidebar as normal.

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Coding and categorizing

In Saturate you can code text data and memos: while viewing some text data or a memo, simply select some text and use the coding tool in the right margin. You can categorize the codes that have been applied (see the Categories & Codes link). You can also export all of the coding you've done as a CSV file (which you can open in a spreadsheet application).

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Searching for memos, coding and data

In Saturate you can search through your memos, coding and text data. This video shows you how.

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Analyzing webpages

To get started coding and memoing web content outside of Saturate, drag these links to your browser's bookmarks bar:

Memo Page | Code Page

Now when you are browsing the web, you can create a memo about any webpage by clicking the "Saturate/Memo" link in your bookmarks bar. To include a snippet of text from the webpage in your memo, select the text on the page, before clicking the "Memo!" bookmarklet.

You can similarly code any text on a webpage using the "Saturate/Code" link in your bookmarks bar.

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Archiving Projects and Exporting Project Data

When you are completely done with a project you can archive it. After you've archived your project, Saturate will create a zip file that contains the project's coding (in a csv file), memos, text data, tabular data and a list of webpages (it may take a minute or two for Saturate to create the zip file). Once the zip file is ready, you'll see a download link below the archived project's name as shown in this video.

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Setting up an avatar

Setup or edit an avatar (an image that represents you) at gravatar.com. Read this blog post for details.

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Deleting and undeleting (undo)

In Saturate if you delete something and change your mind you can undelete it with Saturate's new undo feature. This video shows you how.

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Why is Saturate free?

Currently Saturate is a research project and is supported from my research funds. When the research project wraps up, I'll consider ways to keep the application operating and actively maintained.