Memo, short for memorandum 'a thing to be remembered', is a [[Qualitative Research|qualitative research]] tool. It is a written note about the researcher's thoughts, ideas, questions, and more, about the data as they analyse it. It captures fleeting thoughts, forces the researcher to think analytically as they make their thoughts explicit, and can be analysed to uncover themes. Hence, it particularly aids in inductive reasoning, that is allowing themes and theories to naturally emerge from the data, without a need to pre-define hypotheses and design experiments around that. Hence, whilst it sits deeply within [[Grounded Theory|grounded theory]], it is also used in other [[Qualitative Research|qualitative]] approaches: * [[Thematic analysis]] * [[Ethnography]] --- TODO * Link to various pieces of research in EdTech that made use of it, and what arose from it. * Look more into grounded theory, and think more about the forms of knowledge that such inductive approaches produce.