 Welcome to a 10-minute walkthrough of Quercos. When you download Quercos, you get a month trial of the full version. The first screen shows a list of all your recent projects, or you can open a different file. New projects are saved as a local file. The author name helps you keep track of work when you're working in a collaborative project. You can password protect them, or import structured data from online surveys. The Quercos project file contains all your sources and coding work. In Quercos, the codes are showed on the left of the screen, and the text source is on the right, and you use the slider to adjust the width. You add text sources with the top right button, and bring in one or many sources in one go. These can be text files, rich text files, PDF files, or Word files. Tabs let you switch between the last three used sources, or use the source browser to see them all. The Properties tab lets you define and describe sources in any way. Enter details like the demographic characteristics. You can have any number of properties with a mix of numeric or discrete values. Quickly enter new or existing variables for all of your sources, and use the Text tab to go back to your source data. Click on the Add Querc button to create a new theme or code. You can customize the name, description, and color. Select, drag, and drop text onto the bubble to code to it. Colored highlight strips show how the text has been coded. New quirks are created with a random position and color. Drag your quirks to position them anywhere in the canvas. Create any number of quirks in one go, or create them on the fly if you're doing grounded theory. Drag bubbles onto each other to create nested subcategories. Hover the mouse onto the parent quirk to open up the subcategories for coding. Bubbles grow as you add text to them. Drop text onto the Memo column to attach a comment or note. Hovering over the memo shows the associated text which can be directly coded. The Memo button at the top toggles the column. Search for keywords across all of your sources, and load more of the source around the results to see more context. You can code directly from the search results. Projects are auto-saved, so you can change to another at any time. Here we've loaded a complete project to look at how we explore coded data. Right or long click on a quirk to get the Quirk actions menu, and edit the Quirk properties at any time. Double click to see quotes and subcategories for that quirk, and click on a subcategory to see quotes just from that quirk on the right. Quickly copy all or some of the quotes to paste into Word or any other software. See how many quotes come from each type of source with the properties tab. The home button will always take you back to the main canvas view. Quirks can be arranged by name, size, or date, or use the tree view to show them as a conventional list. Quirks can belong to any number of groups. Groups that you create sets of quirks that can be turned off and on on the canvas. Choose groups for a quirk to belong to in the edit menu, and use the group view icon to choose which to display. You can also search for Quirk name in the bottom left of the canvas. Queries let you see results from any subset of your data. Using the properties we can see results just from men, or split the screen to compare results from women as well. Overlap views visualise the connections between your quirks and coding. Quirks closer to the centre have the most quotes from overlapping themes. Word clouds can be a fun way to visualise the most common words in your project. Quirks gives you lots of ways to customise the style and look, as well as generating a word frequency list. Customise the stop list to remove words you don't want included. You can generate a standard Word document with your complete coded transcripts. Comments show your work just as if you coded them with highlighters. Reports show all of your data and coding from across the project. Customise which sections you want to include, and how you want your quotes to be arranged and displayed. Save the report as an editable Word file, PDF or web page. Export your coded data as spreadsheet CSV files. Bring your data into Excel, SPSS or R for tables and statistical analysis. Download a one month free trial today from quirkust.com