Does this make the latter more important? If you use a computer to help you count how many words are said on a certain topic or how many times something happened, you will count are those things you thought relevant to note and to code with certain categories as you sorted the data. You are not necessarily identifying something important. Some people use computers and counting to try to make their research look more scientific, but I would argue that it is pseudo-scientific and even dishonest to think something is important if it occurs in field notes or sorting several times.