Hi Bill, A thought provoking post (for me at least!) I like the structure of the notes in Legacy, and find the main limitation is the lack of formatting. My understanding is that the General Note is intended for the Personal History function and I use it as such. Given that so much of Legacy's functionality focuses on Events, it seems logical to attach notes to specific events, and to sources supporting those events.
However, I've never envisaged that one would take notes directly into Legacy. Is that what you had in mind? It seems to me, at least based on my own limited note taking, say of an interview, or researching a reference, that my notes are initially too unstructured to be entered directly into Legacy, or any database. They may span multiple individuals, or multiple events, or may be purely conjectural, and so on. So I take the notes externally and then re-structure them and copy and paste paragpraphs into the right place within Legacy. One Note sounds interesting for this note taking role, and I'll investigate it, but I'm not clear how something like this would fit inside Legacy. I guess it's the Research notes area that Legacy is weakest on. A Research Note attached to Marriages would be a useful addition, as has been suggested before. I keep my "raw" notes attached to the relevant To-Do item which I try to use as a research log. This works ok, but I have to copy and paste bits into relevant notes for individuals. I'd be interested to hear further how you'd envisage improving Legacy's notes structure to support note taking. I suspect I'm missing something! Cheers, Rob 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
