Logs

What Is a Log?

Links and Connections In Logs

Working With Logs

Finding Text in Logs

Finding & Replacing Text in Logs

Font & Font Size for Logs

Text Style, Text Color in Logs

Importing Logs

Free-Form Text Tools

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 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 Logs

To find text in the current log or all of the logs, click the Find button (see illustration above), press Command + F, or choose Edit > Find > Find.

Finding text in the current log or all logs works the same as finding text in notes which is explained here.

Finding & Replacing Text in Logs

To find & replace text in the current log or all of the logs, click the Find button (see illustration above), press Command + F, or choose Edit > Find > Find and then check the Replace checkbox.

Finding & Replacing text in the current log or all logs works the same as finding & replacing text in notes which is explained here.

Font and Font Size for Logs

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

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

Text Style and Color in Logs

The text in logs can be styled and colored.

To change the style of selected text, use the five Text Style buttons that appear above the log field on the right...

To change the color of selected text, use the Text Color button.

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Importing Logs

The Import Log button (the green up arrow above the log text field) lets you import unformatted text files of up to 64,000 characters directly from disk into any log field. The imported text will be appended to existing text, if any.

If Reunion determines that importing a text file will exceed the capacity of a log field, you will be given the option to import a partial file.

HTML, RTF, and MS Word document files may be imported; however, formatting is stripped from these files when imported into a log field. MS Word .docx files are not supported.

Free-Form Text Tools

To clean up text formatting issues, remove invalid characters, modify smart quotes, etc., in the current log or in all logs, click the Free-form Text Tools button (the wrench icon above the logs field).

This will present a window with several different text "cleaning" options explained here.