Feature request :
I would like to store notes which are not directly linked to a specific individual or place or media item or source. This sort of thing has been discussed here before e.g. Jan 2024 – RootsMagic File Description and or Notes – but I don’t think it generated a response from RootsMagic.
Nevertheless I wasn’t the only one who wants to have somewhere to store general notes, whether it’s a description of the project; the research methodology adopted; a Group in the database; or indeed any other non-specific information. So, I’m putting this request forward again in the hope that RM will take it up this time.
A good place to initially access this functionality would be from the Home screen, where it would be easily visible, in the Help and Support area – something like this :
My Database Notes
My project description, guidelines and notes
Clicking on this new item would take the user to a note editor where you could :
• Create a new note
• Name it and date it
• Save it in the database
• See a list of saved notes
• Edit a saved note
• Delete a note
The icing on the cake would be to :
• Organise notes into folders, and
• Print these notes in a report
It seems to me that all this could be delivered using already established RM program concepts, such as Notes and Tasks. It is a reasonable ask I think.
My Database Notes could be used to keep track of a huge variety things, recording many different types of information. A few examples of the general notes I want to keep are :
• A description of the database, what is it about?
• Why I use modern place names, rather than the original historical name
• How to calculate today’s equivalent value of old monetary sums in Wills
• Social history background relevant to whole Groups, Trees, etc in the database
At the moment, these things are either hidden from sight if they’re just recorded once against a single person/fact/place; or they have to be repeatedly copied and tagged to many individuals. Far from ideal. What’s needed is a database-wide, and readily accessible, space to store information without it unnecessarily bloating the database, and I think this would do that.
Over to you Renee . . . . please!