<p>I recently used RQDA for a small project where I read through around 600 news media articles. In the past I had used costly programs like Nvivo, so getting used to RQDA's interface was a bit of a change. However, the program is quite straightforward to use and you can watch some useful tutorials on youtube, or by following this link: <strong>http://tinyurl.com/nxa5c8x</strong></p> <p>While RQDA is not as feature rich as paid programs like Nvivo it will do the trick for organizing textual extracts by themes and subthemes. You may want to try a number of different approaches to importing your text as well. I started with a large pdf and tried to import the text, but there were erroneous sybols, tabs, and other formatting issues. Rather than work to fix these I just analyzed my texts with the mess that I imported. In all, RQDA is a useful tool and I will likely use it again in the future. I also expect that with repeated exposure to the program I will find it more useful and easier to work with.</p>