Re: Campaign-organizing software

In article <75cjv2l6ve5be79cgqlk3odt0fges0hnbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Keran  <keran.long.lost@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I am still searching for charting software that would allow 
>me quickly and easily to make extensively annotated charts 
>of genealogies and alliances: an at-a-glance visual 
>representation would be a useful adjunct to my hypertext 
>notes.  So far my best attempt has been Inspiration, 
>http://www.inspiration.com/
>but it wasn't created with genealogies in mind and doesn't 
>handle the format with an efficient workflow.

For genealogies, it seems as though a specialized tool made
for people who are tracing their own family tree would be
appropriate:  I haven't used such software but there is a lot of
it out there.

My husband keeps his notes in flat files, displayed in multiple
windows while he's running, and gets a lot of use out of
text-editor searching tools and "grep".  He was intensely
frustrated when our laptop died and he had to run from paper--
he missed "grep" badly:

grep motive athys    -- What is Athys' Sense Motive score?

I haven't adopted this system yet myself; I still run from
bits of paper.  But his does seem to have considerable
advantages.  I can well imagine that a wiki would be even
better once you learned to use it.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]