Using the Snipping Tool with Legacy - issues.
I have installed Windows 10 and have been using the Snipping Tool often. My wish is that I could copy that image into the notes for an individual. I have tried saving the image or clipping as pdf and jpg and it will not stick. It is there visually but is gone once I save the note. You can insert that image into Word and no problem. I know many of you will say I should save that as a media item and link it to the individual but I really don't want to do that. At this point, if it is an obit, I have to word process it into notes.
If you are wondering what my thought process is on this (and I often wonder about my thought process myself), I have used notes for everything on anyone - census, marriage, newspaper articles, etc. I am doing that so when I want to write a bio on that person I will have the structure and the details of that bio in front of me. Has anyone tried saving an image into notes and been successful? Has anyone else ever requested being able to do this? Or, am I all alone? Thanks for reading!
Legacy supports text only in notes. You can ask Legacy support how to submit an enhancement request.
ReplyDeleteI have an event "1 - NOTES." I use the 1 in front so when I sort the events, it will go to the top and I can easily see that I have notes on the person I am working on. You can make it private if you don't want them to show up. It is easy to add media and sources.
ReplyDeleteI have a notes event and add information there as I need to. I also use Evernote and I can put notes and images in Evernote. Then I link the Evernote note to the person through the media gallery. I use Tag #5 to show that they have information in Evernote.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we have been able to give you some ideas to get around your issue.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I'm pretty old school. I want to spend my time researching and not learning to use software. And, I like everything to be in one place. Your patience is appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the "old school" approach. Evernote is tempting, but what I am nervous about is that what you are pasting into the notes is a link to something in the cloud, even though a copy may exist on my PC.
ReplyDeleteYou can add media to events like birth, marriage, death, and i attach scans or downloads of documents there, but it is in the "research notes" and the like where the need arises. I still wonder if there is a way to do it already.
I went to the Legacy website and asked for that ability to be added. Thanks for your response!
ReplyDeleteI am old school too Judy Burns. I put all my images, photos, documents, PDF's, Voice snippets, video snippets in one place. In the Multi-Media area. I rarely use "events", other than a few basic ones, birth, marriage, death, burial place, christening (no matter what you may call it), social security numbers, and one or two more. Census, gets transcribed into the General Notes area. Any image of said census, goes to Multi-Media. My data base is years old, and I have chosen to continue it the way it started out, and spend my time researching and linking and blogging over completely doing the data base over. It's all about what works for me. LOL I feel I can "create" their stories better by my transcribing and notes in a manner that is easy to read for others. Personally, and it is ALL me, I find long lists of events when I am using narratives, just don't feel right, and again, that is ALL my take on it. I think it is grand that we can all use slightly different approaches to "tell their stories!"
ReplyDeleteHi Carol, I think you are absolutely right. We all do what works for us. For me, simplicity is better. I had to get a new computer in October and deal with Windows 10. (that turned out not to be a deal at all). Bought an external hard drive and changed my backup storage company when I discovered that the one I had been using not only overcharged but wasn't backing up all the files I had designated. This weekend my printer died. I just got the new one set up this morning. Sometimes the technology thing just wears me out. I'm hoping I'm set for a while. So, I have no desire to complicate anything or learn a new program right now.
ReplyDeleteJudy Burns. I understand. I am at the moment trying to figure out the Google Photos. We are assured that all of our Picasa photos are present and accounted for. I even wrote a blog post, stating, no worry. Now, I am having trouble finding the older photos on GP. I may have to recant parts of my post at this rate. I am dealing with new hard drives, and in doing a image backup last night as part of the process, all of a sudden Legacy and the computer both said I have no printers installed. Frustrated, I turned it all off and went to bed. This morning on a reboot, it all functions. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started on Google Photos! I finally gave up and put everything there - and then couldn't find ANYTHING! So - after a many hours putting it all back on my computer in the Photos directory and simply letting Google do a Computer backup, I feel like I have control again.
ReplyDeleteJust because I have photos of my grandsons for the last 13 years, doesn't mean I want them divided year-by-year. I want them in the Grandsons folder.
This is especially true for my genealogy jpg's. Just because I finally have a photo image for documentation doesn't mean that it should show up under 'Today'. I want it under the person it pertains to.
Pretty sure Google photos was not designed for genealogy!
Donna Nissen I believe the issue with Google Photos is that they read the digital data buried on our photos and file them by date. At this time I only use Google photos for my blog photos. I do not allow anything to auto upload or download, I do only manual uploads for the photos I will be using on Reflections posts. I have managed to perfect the work stream a little, but, honestly, it is still cumbersome, as I am blogging a trip from 5 years ago. Google photos wants to bury them. SIGHHH . I do my own albums, but, they do not appear chronologically, cause they read the first photo in the group/album and use that to "file" the album where ever the heck they want to. If I could disable that date mess, I would in a heartbeat. Not all changes, as we all know, are for the best. SIGHHH
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