Did you try Sticky Sorter?  Not convinced it would be useful for 1000 notes,
unless you have a REALLY large screen, but it would be worth looking at.  It
is an Office add-on

http://www.labnol.org/software/create-affinity-diagrams-with-sticky-sorter/5465/

<http://www.labnol.org/software/create-affinity-diagrams-with-sticky-sorter/5465/>
Robin

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:31 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi - I am working on a user research project with over a dozen participants
> and we will be using affintity diagramming to make sense of the data. It
> looks like we may have over 1000 sticky notes by the time we are finished.
>
> Can anyone suggest a software tool that can handle this number of
> observations, and allow us to easily maniupulate them?
>
> I have been experimenting with MS "Sticky Notes" but it keep freezing up on
> me!
>
> thanks -
>
> Kay Corry Aubrey
>
> Usability Research & User-centered design
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