Hello and thank you.
@clsturgeon oh my god, you put a lot of work and time into it.
Wonderful thank you.
(01) In order not to get out of hand in my text, I used the compass ‘my task at hand’.
Then something of my whole network becomes visible, but there are also limitations against getting out of hand.
(02) I think we both suffer from a similar ‘disease’: maybe building a good tool is more important than using it…?
(03) Very Important: Please take all of my feedback, as an offer, as my user experiences and impressions, feedback as a thank you for your efforts.
(04) Take from it what you can use.
And we blame the rest on my limited English.
(05) Do you know whether or how many active users of ‘MK’ there are at the moment?
(06) From my use case, I have the impression of Big Overhead, as if you wanted to shoot sparrows with a cannon.
(07) My Gedcom file was imported without any problems.
With around 176 entries of persons, 272 tiddlers became 697 tiddlers.
(08) According to my first impression, family relationships were well taken over and even represented correctly in the graphic representation. Clean performance !!
(09) Events and locations were also very well taken over.
The handling of the ‘system’ with namesake seems to impress me. Added the Gramps ID to the name in the title for people with the same name.
(10) But before that I had to search around for a while to know and call this function.
(11) A call entry in the sidebar >Tools >> Import, then >>Import_GEDCOM below would have helped me.
(12) Existing notes were recognized during the import, provided with an ID e.g. @N0040@ and this ID was empty, i.e. saved without text in MK. Too bad.
(13)Existing photos were not imported.
(14) In my use case, I don’t need this complex collection and evaluation of sources and resources.
(15) I know most of the events from stories or my memory, or from copies of family documents.
(16) In my mind there are many truths, stories, memories. I think the attempt at objectification is even more harmful. As if there were an objective truth. Even three witnesses to an event can deliver three different perspectives and reports, a victim has an experience, the perpetrator has an experience, etc. an endlessly braided bond.
(17) It’s not about evidence. For me it is about understanding and healing the generations back and forth.
(18) In my opinion, the use of tags should be carefully considered.
(19) Long lists require scrolling.
(20) Duplicate terms with overlapping tags can lead to confusion.
(21) What is the significance of recording aircraft, road vehicles, and watercraft? In how many family histories do they play a determining, formative, supporting role, possibly over generations?
(22) And even then, one tag should suffice, either Objects and Vehicles or only Vehicles , at least not both types of tags, even with overlapping content.
Objects, Vehicles and more is probably cheap. Because buildings, weapons, cameras, machine tools, brassieres, BOOKS, etc. could be recorded there if they play a major role in the story.
(23) All tags that are just a headline are, in my view, a -still empty- declaration of intent.
(24) Where there is no mature function behind it, I would replace these tags or summarize them with one tag: future projects. Or take it out entirely. And put on an internal Issue_List.
(25) Having to call up the search window every time I use it is annoying.
(26) Suggestion: The window should always be open so that I can go straight into it with the cursor.
It can also possibly increase when you enter it?
(27) The MK specific tabs do not appear in my local language.
(30) Wishes for 2023 that are coming to mind right now:
30.1 Import of GEDCOM_files with notes
30.2 Import of GEDCOM_files with photos
30.3 Always provide search window
Have excellent times, where ever you go
cordially Paralullus (aka Til Peta Noske)
