Using Scrivener with NVivo

Kristoffer Greaves 25 June 2014

This is Scrivener in Corkboard View

Each card represents a sectionin the Binder

This is Scrivener in Document View

Each document has its own metadata

Each document has its notes section, e.g. you can add supervisor feedback here

Each section shown in the binder is a separate document

The Binder includes a “Research” section

Items exported from Nvivo can be dragged into the Binder

This is NVivoWe’re looking at PDFs imported from Endnote

Note the Linked memos – these were created from text in Endnote’s

“Research Notes” field when the bibliographic file was imported

We’ve opened the Memo folder

The Memos can be opened and edited,so you can add your notes as you workon the literature review

You can right-click on a memoAnd export it as a text fileYou can drag the text file intoyour Scrivener research folder

Here is a framework matrix sheet

The sources were coded as case nodes

This column holds the text coded to a theme node

The framework matrix can be exportedas a spreadsheet – after you work with it in Excel you can print it as a PDF and drag it into Scrivener’s Binder in the “Research” folder

Similarly, you can export coding references as documents.Add these to the Research Folder in Scrivener too…

The same with charts… (as image files)

Here’s a cluster analysis dendogram – it was exported as an image file, then dragged into a Scrivener folder, to be used as a figure…

So you can keep all your data sources, analyses, memos in one place in Nvivo (and add your finished thesis, articles etc later)

And you can keep your writing and draftingin one place in Scrivener

Click hereIf you want to learn about importing bibliographic refs, framework matrices, coding matrix queries…

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