Stories and memories

Genealogy
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If I do a “memories” search in gramps.discourse most hits is about memory leaks. That’s not what I’m looking for. I want to preserve memories.
In Gramps Web I’m using the Blog feature for memories, stories and biographies. That is quite fine, but it is limited to Gramps Web and layout possibilities are almost absent.
But even that these ‘Blogs’ are based on standard Gramps source and notes, it’s not really an integrated part of Gramps. So for example when I create a ‘book’, I have all these written stories as text documents, I create a LibreOffice master document and insert all ‘stories’ as well as various Gramps reports.

Question - are anyone doing similar in a smarter way? Maybe I’m missing an add-on?

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Presently, I keep all these anecdotes and collective memories in Note’s. Since a Note record is a shareable object, it can be attached to all Person’s mentioned in the note. I have also started to collect “extra-ordinary” events I find in parish records and attach then to Place’s.

I meet a difficulty with citations because a Note is not a “cite-able” object. I work around this limitation by adding information at end of the specific Note, frequently with a Link to original data.

I have not yet looked at book generation issues.

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I frequently want to add citations to notes too… adding a link is a powerful workaround. However, if the note is a direct transcription of the source (in my case transcriptions/translations of grave markers) I also share the note with the source, and the source shows up in the references tab of the note.

I also use links in notes to attach media.

I have not looked into report / book generation either.

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I include a footnote containing a Zotero-generated citation string with a link, either to a Zotero object or an online resource, whenever I need to reference a source in a note.

However, I personally store all my sources and documents in Zotero.

If you think it might be a solution for you, but you only require a citation generator occasionally, you can try this free and open-source service (Zotero).

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Then it is part of the citation for me and does not enter in the “definition” of memory or story. These are anecdotes not related to some events; they are kind of “untemporal”.

I’ll take a closer look at my diagrams to see if there is a “Gramps-flavoured” usage of records I didn’t foresee for this kind of data.