It is not a program specifically designed for that kind of tagging and gathering, but it does have some tools that can be of use toward a simplified approach. I would say it isn’t too weak on the marking side of things (though surely not as streamlined as a program dedicated toward this purpose—I myself use macros to speed up the process of inserting markers into the text), it’s weaker on the gathering side, if what you expect of that is a list of only the marked phrases. You can gather documents with a specific type of marking and walk through matches like regular search results, and likewise you can search by note colour and string matching at any time.
- This thread has some good discussion on the matter, though not much by way of resolution.
- Forum user Louko posted an interested workflow for processing interviews a good long while ago—but it looks like most of the Scrivener related aspects are still relevant.
- Also some good discussion in this thread.
- I have written quite a bit on how I structure markings in a project and gather them later. For how I use this stuff (I’m no ethnographer), the available tools work very well—I need context around a marking so I don’t mind that the whole text it resides within comes along with the search.