Whenever I create a Source Citation I also add a note with information about the citation. I have never had to create more than one note for a citation.
So in order to simplify the process of creating citations it would be fine having a note text field in the citation window. Also when you open a citation, you will immediately see the attached note. For simplicity no editing features like bold, underscore etc are needed.
Keep the possibility to open the existing note window in special cases where you need more than one note or any of the extra editing features.
This is a workflow where you can leverage the Gramps clipboard.
After adding a Transcription type Note to a Citation, it is useful to keep the Note open until all the facts are transformed into Gramps objects.
However, all the parent floating Windows are distracting. (e.g, 5 windows spawned for a transcription Note of an Event citation for the Father : 1 Family Editor, 2 father Person Editor, 3 birth Event Editor, 4 Citation Editor, 5 transcription Note Editor). If you close any of the parent windows, then all their offspring spawned windows automatically close.
So, after creating the transcription Note, commit it with the Ok button, immediately copy it to the clipboard, commit the Citation with the Ok button, copy the Citation to the Clipboard, and commit the changes in other 3 parent Editors.
To continue citing Gramps objects from the tramscription Note, open the Note editor from the clipped Note and open (or add) the appropriate Gramps object editor for the other facts and drop the Citation on their Sources tab.
Interestingly, the experimental CardView by @cdhorn allows Citation to be drag’n’dropped onto Gramps objects without opening the Editor.
It would be nice if this ‘fact tagging’ process could be streamlined… similar to the way Media object can be tagged with People using the Photo Tagging gramplet. Where you can draw a series of selections and quickly associate (or add) a series of People to that Media object.
It looks like this is a step in that direction:
Yes, I use this kind of workflow, e.g. when finding a census with a whole family and I want to add the citation to each individual.
But in really many occasions, the citation is only attached to one person. With a text field in the citation window, where the transcription can be added without having to open two extra windows would be nice.
Also the described workflow doesn’t reduce the number of windows needed to be open, whenever you just need to have a look on an old citation.
In the Sources/Citation View you can add a gramplet to view note(s).
Only one note is shown.
So when you select a Source or Citation from the list, you immediately get to see the attached note.
Does that solve the problem?
I installed the gramplet called “Note Gramplet”, but I can only add it to the People view. Not to the Sources or Citations views.
I must have installed it during a previous version but it is still there in 5.2.3. I would have thought that it would show in any view once installed.
They are two different gramplets. “Notes” is builtin and available in multiple views. “Note” is an addon and is available only in the Person view.
My Citation Notes are rarely Transcriptions or Translations, they are nearly always information about the Citation and e.g. other formats of citations, like Archive specific Citations, Wiki Citations etc.
The transcoding I do in Zotero or add as Markdown files or PDF’s.
Most of the time any transcoding or translation of a source is done as Annotations in a PDF in Zotero and exported as Markdown to Obsidian/Foam, then linked as media in Gramps…
Anything that might be used in multiple application systems, I save as text files in the format I need and then link to it in the software I use…
To have a Note field easily accessible would be great. Just to be able to “quick copy” something from an external source…