Logs

What Is a Log?

Links and Connections In Logs

Working With Logs

Finding Text in a Log

Font, Font Size, Text Style, Text Color in Logs

Change Log

What Is a Log?

Family file logs provide places to document your research efforts. For example, you could create a log for each surname or major branch of your family and chronicle your research efforts relating to each surname or branch: your library visits, your written and email correspondence, your upcoming trips and tasks, your travel calendar, research questions, conflicts, etc.

To record information in a log, click Logs in the navbar.

Or, use the Logs menu button to select a particular log to edit...

This opens the Logs window, shown below.

The big scrolling field on the right displays the contents of the log highlighted in the list of Logs on the left side. To select a log, click a name in the list of logs.

You may enter and save up to 64,000 characters in each log. Text in each log can be edited using standard Mac keyboard command shortcuts.

Links and Connections in Logs

If logs contain links (URL’s to web pages) or "connections" you can go directly to those linked pages or people from the family view, or from within the log itself.

From the family view, use the Logs menu button to select the name of the log. You'll notice a submenu appears with those links and connections. These can be selected for navigation (all without opening the Logs window).

This example above includes a log called "Things to do." And, in that log, there is:

  1. A connection to another person in the family file (Alma E. RICE).
  2. A link to a web site (using normal text) ("new findagrave link").
  3. An explicit link to a web site (the full URL).

Note: the last item in the Log menu (Change Log) is explained here.

Note: the pop-up menu of logs only appears when clicking the right edge of the Logs button in the navbar; clicking elsewhere opens the Logs window normally, where the most-recently viewed log appears in the Logs window.

Working with Logs

Finding Text in a Log

You can find text in a log by clicking the Find button (see illustration above), pressing Command+F, or choosing Edit > Find > Find. Then enter the text you'd like to find in the Find on This Page window and press Return/Enter or click the Next button.

If the search text is found, it will be highlighted in the log field...

Font and Font Size for Logs

To change the font and font size used for text in logs...

  1. Choose Reunion > Preferences.
  2. Click General.
  3. Select a font, style, and size under the heading Font for lists and data entry.

Text Style and Color

The text in logs can be styled and colored. To change the style of selected text, use the Text Style buttons. To change the color of selected text, use the Text Color button.

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