I am hopeless disorganized in this regard. Mostly because my main Cuz is the one who does most of the research lately.
I did use LTools some time ago to start making a To-Do List and gave up after I had entered over 50,00O to-do's. Because, you know, it gets kind of ridiculous with the average life span of 80 years or so and I'm already well on my way to the end of it. I have to go back and tick off the ones that are done because I never really look at my to-do lists. Duh. I was thinking, when I read of people using spreadsheets, that this might work quite well using MindMeister which in online mind-mapping. You can add a URL and then notes next to it. Everything is in one place so you don't duplicate your efforts and you can refer to it easily to see what you last did. It does handle notes quite well and attachments. And there it is right in your browser so you don't have to open another program, just switch tabs. http://www.mindmeister.com/?r=1945 Although if you keep your spreadsheet in Google Docs that would be about the same. Never have understood, so far, people's fascination with spreadsheets. The other recommendation, due to disappearing URL's would be Zotero, a plugin for Firefox. You take snapshots of pages and keep them, add notes, citations, etc. Very handy tool. The other one somewhat similar is Scrapbook, another Firefox plugin. Save entire pages and also has annotation and combining, folder organizing, etc. That's way off what you're asking which is how to use the forms and incorporate them into Legacy. Well, I notice that To-Do's in Legacy have an option for File ID. If I was using any 'forms', which I'm not, I would put them into the MRIN folders where I have everything else for each marriage and then I'd know where the forms are so I could avoid duplication that way. You may find another use for the File ID's as far as where things are. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 7/19/2012 11:24 AM, Tessa Keough wrote: > The interesting thing I learned when I posted in the Google+ Stream > yesterday after the webinar is that Marian does not use Legacy to any > great extent - I don't know if it is because she does research for > clients or if she is in process of changing programs BUT I also wanted > to know how you incorporate the types of forms she uses with Legacy, > how you make sure you are not doing lots of double entries, and how > you keep track of all those research "documents/forms" in your filing > system (be it paper based or computer based) and how you note it in > Legacy. > That was the question I asked in my post and while I liked the look of > her forms and definitely see their use - I do write up research plans > - how do we incorporate with to-dos, and where do you take it from > there. One thing I wish we had in Legacy in the ability to place in a > Research Manager (similar to RootsMagic). I realize that Geoff plans > to do a webinar about using To-Dos so I hope it incorporates how to > "reuse" Marian's forms in his presentation. In the meantime, what do > others do? > > Tessa Keough > Guild of One-Name Studies, No. 5089 > Legacy Virtual Users' Group > One Place Studies - Plate Cove, Newfoundland > Surnames - Keough, Murphy, Aylward, Kocevar, Lidman, Zagradisnik > Places - Ireland, Newfoundland, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, USA (New York, > Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Washington) > Blogs - The Keough Corner and Scandia Musings& More > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Larry<ldlee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Tim >> Marian's template for tracking the web browsing was OK and I use something >> similar but in Excel. Mine is quick& dirty. I cut and paste the URL for > >> each site and make notes as appropriate. I have columns for date, name, >> item of interest, URL, found Y/N, and comments. If you find something of >> interest, just save a copy in appropriate format, text, photo, etc. Then you >> can hyperlink to the saved file. You can have it plain or fancy and add >> additional columns as needed. >> >> This works (when I remember to do it) and pasting is quick and accuraate. >> >> Larry Lee >> >> Tim Rosenlof<spa...@xmission.com> wrote: >> >>> Researchers, >>> >>> After watching the Great ! webinar yesterday by Marian Pierre-Louis, I >>> would like some suggestion on how 'you' handle the dozens and dozens of > >>> www. searches with negative results. Certainly 'I' browse around pretty > >>> quickly. Should I be recording each ? 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