I like the concept of Citation details note from that software. It’s something Gramps could also have in their CitationRef sections.
When watching that video (at 9:30), I was struck by the awkwardness of the tabbed interface as he dissected the free‐form citation into the structured form fields.
I had similar problems when dissecting obituaries that had been transcribed into Citation Notes.
Although that awkwardness in Gramps was more about needing to constantly re-arrange the cascade of floating Windows to expose the main Gramps window. And trying to keep track of which the parent windows could be closed to keep a particular spawned Note Editor window accessible.
It wasn’t until it became habitual to clipboard the Note (to free it from the window chain of the parent cascade) that workflow for linking/dissecting a citation transcription became manageable. And clipboard the Citation too to simplify citing within the extract facts.
Right now, I tend to add custom Citation Attributes when given a Chicago-style or MLA-style or FindAGrave‐style citation. Then I’ll dissect it into what structured field exist in Gramps today. (But keeping the sample Attribute… in hopes there will be new Citation features in the future that either: use a pre-formatted citation, or; add more structured fields for the rest of the data.)
But an Attribute cannot be clipboarded. So there is no way to float an Attribute Editor window free of the parent cascade for dissection.
Not a citation/source attribute but a regular attribute can be clipboarded. Now, with the Recent Item addon from Kari, this is one of the last cases that gives me the opportunity to use the clipboard
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