Bill, Can you briefly explain how you use 'Microsoft OneNote' with Legacy? I recently got a copy of the program with that in mind. Thanks in advance.
Peace, "Guided by the Ancestors" On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:05:46 -0500, William S. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have looking at a demo version of an Australian program called > "Relatively Yours," and although it didn't tempt me at all to abandon > Legacy, it reminded me once again of how inadequate the note-taking > capabilities of Legacy are. In Relatively Yours, there is a screen > entitled "Personal History" on which one can compose a narrative history > of an individual, with all the formatting of a simple but good > word-processor. (It reminded me of WordPerfect about fifteen years ago.) > > What a pleasure to use something like that! If that screen were > supplemented by an unlimited number of smaller notes (and of course a > good search command), the program would turn into a serious instrument > for historical research. In Legacy we have to make do with one set of > General, Research, and Medical notes per individual, perhaps a custom > event of "Research notes" (or something like that), and attached > documents, but it is all very klunky: bracketed codes for some really > primitive formatting, the inability to search attached documents, etc. > > Legacy is a brilliant program, and I use it daily, but for note-taking I > find it inadequate. (My professional career has been devoted to the > pursuit of historical scholarship of other varieties, so I speak from > long experience.) I'm aware that it's awkward to introduce RTF elements > into a database program (though FileMaker and ProCite, to mention just > two random examples, manage to do it), but until there is some > improvement in this aspect of Legacy, I will be forced to divide my > genealogical research notes among Legacy itself, external attached > files, and Microsoft OneNote. > > Is there a solution on the horizon? > > Bill Peterson > (Washington, D.C.) > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > -- Peace, "Guided by the Ancestors" Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
