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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Calculating Year of Birth
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:23:38 -0600
References: <NDBBJJMPJKPBEPNBFPGAMEOHKDAA.John@JohnCardinal.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJJMPJKPBEPNBFPGAMEOHKDAA.John@JohnCardinal.com>


On 7/2/03, at 07:45, John Cardinal wrote:

>Stuart Armstrong wrote, in part:
>> I wish there were a way to collect ALL my citation details for any
>> given source, and string them together. It would result in a complete
>> log of everything I ever found in that source.

>What about the List of Citations (LoC) report? It's not available yet for TMG
v5, but perhaps you used that report in TMG v4. What is it missing relative to
your wish above?

and Lee Hoffman wrote
>Well, when the List of Citations report becomes available, you should be
able to do this.

I never thought of using the LoC in v4 for this purpose, namely to list the complete citations for Everybody. I just ran it now to see if it would work. It isn't exactly what I want but it might be useable.
I want to strip the person/tag associations from the citations and retain only the source associations. Then I want to paste everything from each source into a research task and attach the research task to the source. So that whenever I examine a source I can review all my research from that source -- a complete raw-data research log organized by source.
Since I've always quoted the relevant part of sources in the CD of every citation, it would contain virtually all my research in the raw. The only thing that would be lost would be the chronological sequence, which isn't a serious loss. And there would be some considerable redundancy because citations are typically repeated for multiple tags, but I can live with that. It looks like with a little global editing with a word processor and some tricky but do-able sorting, I can do it. It will probably take 2 or 3 days work but I'll only have to do it once, and it will be worth it if I then resolve to maintain this log from that point on.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll be waiting for the availability of this report in v5.

Stuart Armstrong
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