startsession
Initialize a qualitative research session to review ongoing projects, participants, codes, memos, and tasks. Establish context, track progress, and prioritize analysis activities efficiently.
Instructions
A comprehensive tool for initializing a new qualitative research session, providing structured information about ongoing research projects, participants, analytical elements, and recent research activities.
When to use this tool:
- Beginning a new research analysis session
- Getting oriented to your current research state across multiple projects
- Planning which research elements to focus on in the current session
- Reviewing recent research activities and progress
- Identifying active research projects and their status
- Exploring available participants for analysis
- Reviewing your most frequently used codes
- Accessing recent analytical memos
- Establishing research context before diving into specific analysis tasks
- Re-engaging with your research after time away
- Prioritizing high-priority research tasks
- Tracking the status of various research activities
- Understanding sequential research processes
Key features:
- Generates a unique session identifier for tracking research activities
- Retrieves and displays recent research sessions with summaries
- Lists active research projects with status and phase information
- Provides a sample of research participants with demographic information
- Presents your most frequently used codes with reference counts
- Highlights recent analytical memos with type and summary information
- Formats information in an easily scannable format for quick orientation
- Integrates with the loadcontext tool for deeper exploration
- Maintains continuity between research sessions
- Tracks research session history for progress review
- Displays high-priority research tasks needing attention
- Shows status information for key research activities
- Presents sequential relationships between research processes
Parameters explained: No parameters required - the tool automatically retrieves all relevant context.
Return information:
- A unique session identifier
- Recent research sessions (up to 3) with:
- Date
- Project name
- Brief summary
- Active research projects with:
- Project name
- Current status
- Research phase
- Sample participants (up to 5) with:
- Participant name
- Demographic information
- Participation status
- Top codes (up to 10) with:
- Code name
- Reference count
- Code group
- Recent memos (up to 3) with:
- Memo name
- Creation date
- Memo type
- Brief summary
- High-priority research tasks (up to 5) with:
- Task name
- Current status
- Associated project
- Upcoming research activities (up to 3) with:
- Activity name
- Scheduled date
- Prerequisite activities
- Current status
Status and Priority Information:
- Research activities are displayed with their current status values
- High-priority tasks are prominently highlighted for attention
- Valid status values include: planning, data_collection, analysis, writing, complete, scheduled, conducted, transcribed, coded, analyzed, emerging, developing, established, preliminary, draft, final, active, in_progress
- Priority values (high, low) help indicate which tasks need immediate attention
Sequential Process Information:
- Upcoming activities show prerequisite tasks that must be completed first
- Research phases are presented in their logical sequence
- The precedes relation is used to determine activity ordering
- Sequential relationships help visualize the research workflow
Session Workflow:
- Start a research session with startsession
- Review the provided context to decide what to focus on
- Use loadcontext to retrieve detailed information about specific research elements
- Conduct your analysis, adding new elements with buildcontext as needed
- End the session with endsession to record your research progress
You should:
- Begin each focused research period with startsession to establish context
- Review recent sessions to maintain continuity in your research
- Identify active projects that require attention
- Note available participants for interview analysis
- Consider frequently used codes that may indicate important patterns
- Review recent memos to reconnect with your analytical thinking
- Prioritize high-priority tasks for immediate attention
- Check the status of research activities to maintain progress awareness
- Consider sequential relationships when planning your research activities
- Use the session ID when using other tools to maintain session tracking
- After completing a session, record your progress using endsession
- Establish a regular cadence of research sessions to maintain momentum
- Use the structured overview to make deliberate choices about where to focus your analytical effort
Input Schema
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