Working with notes feels so disconnected because I haven’t figured out how to see all notes for one person in one screen in GRAMPS (my preference). Am I overlooking this option somewhere?
For each note I enter, I use the following template so as to see a timeline of notes as I browse the notes page and enter new notes.
I don’t think I understand your work flow well enough, but looking at your examples, I ask why you are putting these in notes? Each EVENT includes the data you are showing and it all appears in the Person and other screens.
I only use notes for Research notes or other facts not included with Source/Citation. I also use the Citation Note to keep a copy of the transcribed citation.
You may have to explain your work flow more.
I am still working out my workflow. I realize that reports pull disparate view of data together but I haven’t found one that displays all notes for a person.
I would like to be able to see all notes for an ancestor to check that all are noted, to check for dupes, to make sure all events or docs or whatever are accounted for, to see their life in a timeline which often times reveals stories and suggests research.
Having to open a personal note, then event note, then general notes in a GRAMPS screen breaks that info up so all can’t be seen at once. Does that make sense?
I am not copying the data or citation from an event or person or whatever into the notes, just some thoughts, or extra family info. Or just state “birth of”. I also want a timeline of a persons’ life and this method seems to work for me.
I find a visual tool of a person’s life very helpful in so many ways.
This is somewhat similar to another thread (find citations attachment points or reverse lookups of citation references) where the objective is to find all the Citations in a hierarchy of secondary objects spawned off a primary object. So, it meant finding Citations not only for a Person, but also that person’s citations in Relationships and Media (and Notes, Places, Events, et cetera) objects, and those of the tertiary objects… and so forth.
It is just in this case, Gramps would need to list Notes (instead of Citations) found in that hierarchy. Because that hierarchy could be quite deep, it might be helpful to have a sortable column with the degrees of separation from the selected object too.
@Nick-Hall , there have been a number of requests for filtered hierarchies of this ilk. I recall (but cannot find) you mentioning having a primitive experiment that exploded the hierarchy into a (QuickView? Gamplet?) list. But that you wouldn’t have time to think about until after 5.2 was out for awhile. You made an observation in the Citation thread that one idea would be “fairly easy” to code. (Although that “ease” is for people with your skillset.)
Has there been a Feature Request that might be applicable?
Possibly 0012436: “Deep References” gramplet (add optional configuration of existing “References” gramplet)
I have created some views which display all data stored for a given object. They also allow the user to follow links to display new objects. These views would be very useful for finding the attachment points for citations, but would only display links to notes, not their contents.
My Combined View would be very easy to extend to display all notes for a person in a list.
In v5.3 I plan to enhance the navigation history to better support the Combined View, the new “everything” views and also card views.
Showing the contents of all the Notes sounds like a Notes Report with a filter and some sorting. Just like the Citations in the hierarchy sounds like a “Endnotes” references report with a filter and some sorting.
I suppose that QuickReports would be another option and would eliminate the rigmarole of saving a file & displaying it. And the QuickReport gramplet would make them “browsing friendly” in the Views.
A few more filter rules would be helpful. There’s already an “Active person” rule, so one can create a custom filter for the active person, and then use that filter with rules like “Events of persons matching the <person filter>”. If there were also rules such as “Notes for events matching the <event filter>”, “Notes for people matching the <person filter>”, etc. then the Notes view could be filtered to show all notes related to the active person.
That is one addon that I really wish had been rolled into the Core.
In fact, since the inclusion management of Addon Rules isn’t on a one-by-one basis, maybe the addon rules should be bundled into the core for each major release? That would ensure Custom Filters don’t choke on missing Addon Rules when you upgrade but haven’t installed all the addons. Right now, Gramps just purges Custom Filters that fail an integrity check. It doesn’t even alert about having done so.
That problem might just be because addon rules is an immature feature. The Rule Plugin type was only added in Aug.2019 with the 5.1.0 version. (I just added cross-ref links to the lists of built-in and add-on rule to the landing zones for the Add Rule and Define filter dialog Help buttons.)