# Files Specific to Gramps Web & Add-ons **URL:** \ **Category:** Gramps Web\ **Created:** [October 22, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/files-specific-to-gramps-web-add-ons/8692 "2025-10-22T02:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 8:25am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/files-specific-to-gramps-web-add-ons/8692/3 "2025-10-22T08:25:57Z")
> [@Snake1949](#): > > Before trying Gramps Web, I tried Gramps. It looks like great software with lots of functions and add-ons. But, adding data in Gramps proper is confusing, difficult and clunky. I expect importing a Gedcom would make things a lot easier. I didn’t try that. Attracting new users who don’t yet have a Gedcom would be difficult I would think. > > Gramps Web is a little better for adding data, but I just think it could, and should, be so much easier. I agree with your assessment of awkward data entry. It is one of the reasons that I find the [Data Entry addon gramplet](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Addon:DataEntryGramplet) to be an important expansion. And also have a [data entry spreadsheet form](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/import-from-excel-librecalc-spreadsheet/6835/3) that is cut&paste compatible with the **Import Text grample** t (when the delimiter has been set to tabs instead of commas). But it also seems to me that there is an excellent opportunity to use some of the web tools which allow fillable PDF forms to be a clean and crisp data entry interface. Standard genealogical fillable PDF forms exist for recording 3-7 generation pedigree data, individual vital data, family group data. (Although, suprisingly, none of the forms I have found online from Genealogical organizations have been optimized. The tabbing order is wonky on most. And the field names are typical left with the defaults created by the form editor or exporter. It seems like the form fields should have been named to imply the GEDCOM tags that would be used for the data. Which would help AIs to scrape and fill data more Intuitively.) If Gramps Web could leverage these typical genealogical forms (both for data entry and for printing/exporting data) then Gramps Web would be immediately familar to many genealogists. --- _[View the full topic](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/files-specific-to-gramps-web-add-ons/8692)._