I have a folder within OneNote call "Genealogy." Then at the next level I have two folders named "Bill" and "Sylvia" (my wife) and a section called "Shared" (for general material relating to both families). Under "Bill" I have folders called "People" and "Places" and a section called "Miscellaneous." And the under "People" I have a series of sections for various family names in my tree: "Thompson," "Hadley," etc.
Within the "Thompson" section, for example, I have a page bearing my mother's name, with one subpage each for details about her wedding, transcriptions of obituaries, etc.
OneNote is a great little program, and if you play around with it a bit, you'll come up with other ideas for organizing the information. The features I like best are the ease with which you can move bits of text around, the excellent search capacity, and the ability to take a "screen clipping" from a Web site.
Best regards,
Bill Peterson
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Geder Genealogical Services wrote:
Bill,
Can you briefly explain how you use 'Microsoft OneNote' with Legacy? I recently got a copy of the program with that in mind. Thanks in advance.
Peace, "Guided by the Ancestors"
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:05:46 -0500, William S. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have looking at a demo version of an Australian program called "Relatively Yours," and although it didn't tempt me at all to abandon Legacy, it reminded me once again of how inadequate the note-taking capabilities of Legacy are. In Relatively Yours, there is a screen entitled "Personal History" on which one can compose a narrative history of an individual, with all the formatting of a simple but good word-processor. (It reminded me of WordPerfect about fifteen years ago.)
What a pleasure to use something like that! If that screen were supplemented by an unlimited number of smaller notes (and of course a good search command), the program would turn into a serious instrument for historical research. In Legacy we have to make do with one set of General, Research, and Medical notes per individual, perhaps a custom event of "Research notes" (or something like that), and attached documents, but it is all very klunky: bracketed codes for some really primitive formatting, the inability to search attached documents, etc.
Legacy is a brilliant program, and I use it daily, but for note-taking I find it inadequate. (My professional career has been devoted to the pursuit of historical scholarship of other varieties, so I speak from long experience.) I'm aware that it's awkward to introduce RTF elements into a database program (though FileMaker and ProCite, to mention just two random examples, manage to do it), but until there is some improvement in this aspect of Legacy, I will be forced to divide my genealogical research notes among Legacy itself, external attached files, and Microsoft OneNote.
Is there a solution on the horizon?
Bill Peterson (Washington, D.C.)
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