Dashboard Gramplet for viewing local README.md files

It was aggravating that opening README.md stored locally drove Firefox crazy. (It would recursively spawn new tabs, expecting the GitHub server to resolve the markdown… which spawned the next tab.)

So I prompted Claude ai to generate a Dashboard Gramplet that renders markdown files within Gramps. It has a Folder icon in the lower left that opens a file browser at the gramps52/plugins directory. Drilling down into a folder show .md files to open. If this is of interest, I’m happy to share.

Next, I was considering adding a custom markdown tags to support Gramps tutorials and guiding “Aunt Martha” through a shared tree. It would have to allow finding Icons from the installed Gramps. Maybe even switching category view modes and active objects. Or the same hotlinking objects feature as in Notes… but without its GUI link editing interface.

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That’s cool! Honestly I would love to see a Gramplet that could display a webpage, that could make importing my data from Ancestry into Gramps easier.

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So far, this is only been tested for Gramps 5.2 and the addon is experimental (but marked as ‘Unstable’)

But the Addon Manager project is:

Emyoulation GitHub curated addons
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emyoulation/CuratedGrampsPlugins/master/gramps52/

The developers strayed down that path before… but it turned into something of a quicksand trap.

Browser tech is in constant flux. So you’re always chasing a new (or old) feature that does not work on a certain configuration. Or patching a new security breach.

But I’d be happy to see a better remote/automation linkage between Gramps and browsers.

Can’t you just export your tree from Ancestry in GEDCOM format and then import that into Gramps?

First of all, my Ancestry tree is a mess, and second of all, I prefer to do it all manually.

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experimental Markdown Dash v.0.1.4 now available for Gramps 5.2