The Hermeneutic Unit Editor is your main workspace in ATLAS.ti.

All basic project components (primary documents, quotations, codes, memos) are presented by default as drop-down lists. Floating windows displaying these lists may be activated at any time. Coding can be done by simply dragging codes from the code manager onto the selected piece of text (or graphic selection). In-vivo coding is just as simple: the selected text can be dragged into the code manager and assigned to the desired code.

The HU Editor displaying a Rich Text document with a floating coding tool.

The HU Editor showing a graphical document.

Interactive margin: Note the area to the right of the primary text pane, the margin area. In addition to the differently colored brackets, the codes, hyperlinks and memos attached to the text are fully interactive. Clicking on an object in the margin area executes certain actions (like renaming, playing a video sequence corresponding to a transcribed piece of text, jumping a hyperlink) or displays a context menu.

Via drag & drop, segments can be merged and links rearranged.

Both the margin area and the dynamic paragraph number area can be toggled on and off.