Yeah makes sense, I thought the same thing. Could there just be a “show age” toggle/field on the person tiddler which defaults true when dates of birth and death are both given and false otherwise. The default can then be manually overridden when the user has provided a date of birth and knows/believes the individual is currently living.
I like the idea. Field is ignored if birth and event exist, even if dates are missing. Having a death event without a date would mean the individual passed and date is unknown. I think we should extend your idea to also include a global show age. In this way if death event does not exist and users want the age shown on all individuals it can be done without toggling show age at each person tiddler. Thank you for the feedback.
Another couple of points (please let me know if there’s a more helpful way to record these):
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Is there any good way to record births/deaths as events in the lives of other people? So for example the birth of a child or death of a parent may be an important event in the lives of the parents/children, but if the parents are added to the birth event, this creates problems elsewhere. Do we need a “secondary person” field or something for this?
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If the filter is used when selecting multiple people from the selector widget, any previous selection is erased, even if the Ctrl key is held. Perhaps one way around this would be for the selected entities to bypass the filter and be displayed in the list rather than being filtered out.
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This is resolved in build 8, coming soon. As you have indicated there are events defined that force upon who is selected. Birth, death and burial come to mind. You are only allowed to select those who were born, died or buried. Build 8 has ability to add “event roles” where you associate an individual to an event by also indicating their role in the event.
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I’m unable to replicate. The Ctrl key works for me. But you have an idea here that could solve another issue. Or, maybe you are actually having the issue I’m thinking about. The Ctrl key does not work if you have selected items that have been filtered out by the filter/search feature. Having a lock feature with the ability to cache previously selected items would resolve this.
Edit: I should have read your points properly—that is exactly what u said the problem is with point 2. I’ll look at fixing in build 8.
That’s great. Looking forward to build 8 
On point 2 you’re describing exactly the issue that I’m having - that the Ctrl key doesn’t work if selected items have been filtered out.
Thank you for the tip, adding selected entries to the filter of the list box. That is a brilliant idea and only took a minute to implement. I love how it works now. It’ll be in build 8.
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FYI. The next release, build 8, of The Memory Keeper is now available for download. Start by reviewing an example solution. The Memory Keeper — Churchill Family History 0.0.08
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Hi Craig,
I noticed that I can add people to an organisation as members. Is there any chance you can add a tab under person to show which organisations they are associated with.
Use case: I would like to places where a person worked or went to school even the organisations or charities they participate.
Many 
A thought… if we hope that Memory Keeper is used by mainstream family historians and local history researchers (which they should). We might need a “Quick Start” guide. We have some excellent guides “Getting Started” but I suspect they are still off-putting for the non-techie/unfamiliar with TW.
Well, @my_mind how did that get left out? Comes down to lack of QA. I can personally benefit from this. There is a generic organization tab Tiddler, but I failed to include it on person and place tiddlers. Also, it appears organizations are not appearing on the organization tab on project or tasks tiddlers as expected. Thank you, I’ll fix that.
Craig
This was a quick fix I’ll include in the next release (0.0.09). However, let’s try something… hotfixes.
Make sure you have good backs up. This hotfix is only valid for those systems on 0.0.08.
Download this json file and drag and drop it into MK. Test and let me know how it goes.
http://craigsturgeon.com/mk/hotfixes/AddFixOrganizations_0.0.08-01.json
@myfta I cannot disagree with any of these comments. I think most people who have downloaded MK have some level of background knowledge of TW. I do want to add a “Getting Started” section to my documentation, but I do not want to replicate any other great works out there on TW. This topic of documentation being too techie has come up a few times. Are there any good “how to” or “getting started” videos on youtube?
Wonderful thanks for you this!
World like a charm. I can see organisations under person. Many thanks again.
Is there an easy way of adding additional event types to Memory Keeper? In particular I think it would be useful to mark career events such as a change in occupation, enlistment/discharge from the military, award received etc.
Edit: further to the above, is there any way of including additional notes about an event which will appear in a person’s timeline?
Go to the online help (also written in TW)
https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/
And search for “custom event types”. Let me know if that is not what you are looking for.
Notes in the timeline… add event descriptions or notes in the “description” field of the event. That should do it.
Heads up. More coming in the next build. Timeline events will show the icons associated with the place(s) of an event. The idea is an event occurred in specific city, that place can be child of another place (county), and that could be a child place of a State which is a child of the country (US). Any found icons associated with these places appear in the event on the timeline. The idea is to put a flag image as the icon. I put flags in for provinces, States, and countries. So, only these appear. These icons will also appear on pedigree charts (on Family tab).
Craig
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Ah thanks so much. I somehow missed version 0.0.10 was already out! The docs I was looking from The Memory Keeper — Help 0.0.08 are still the 0.0.08 version.
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I can see how that could happen. I moved the help and downloads from my personal site to GitHub, so downloads would still be available when I get hit by that bus.
Very thoughtful! All the same I should have explored the documentation a bit more thoroughly before piping up on here. Thanks for your patience.
I’ve noticed a few issues since upgrading to 0.0.10 relating to charts. Not sure if these have been seen elsewhere, however:
- Birth/death dates no longer show up on pedigree charts
- The descendent chart shows up as a very small graph with no information about the people in the chart (but with links to tiddlers for the relevant individuals).
- The family grid contains icons which link to the relevant tiddlers, but again no information is displayed about these people in the grid view itself (no names etc)
I’ve tried starting from an empty file and creating a dummy family from scratch but the issues appear the same. I’ve tried in both Firefox and Chromium browsers.
I will review and potentially fix. I think some of changes were made to improve performance (ie removed birth & death dates). The alternative was to display the caption field. I think I should make this optional/ configurable.
So, for example. If you have a person named “Smith, John William”, try populating the caption field with the name and years for birth and death, example “John William Smith (1879-1934)”. After you add a few caption fields retest.
Have a look at a new demo I’m working on
https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/AlexanderGrahamBell/AlexanderGrahamBell.html
Thank you.
Craig
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