The screens of the app

What each item in the menu at the left shows, with a picture of each screen.

The menu

The menu stays at the left of every screen. Some items show your whole tree. Others show one person, the person named in the chip that starts with Showing. The chip is empty until you open someone. It clears again if you remove that person's tree.

Table 1. The menu items and what they show
Menu item What it shows Needs a person
Workspaces Your family trees, one card for each. No
Person The page of one person. Yes
Family tree A drawing of the person with parents, partners and children. Yes
Events The things that happened in that person's life. Yes
Notes Your own notes about that person. Yes
Where records are kept The archives, libraries and websites your sources come from. No
Who made this tree The people credited with the tree. No
Research questions and notes Your list of questions and ideas. No
Preferences The colours and the light or dark look. No
About uFTi The version of the app and facts about your computer. No
If a page says Select a person or No person selected, it needs a person first. Search for someone, then open them. A page says no person is selected shows how.

Workspaces

This is the first screen. Each card is one family tree. It tells you how many people, families and events the tree holds. Open a family tree file and Remove a tree from the list start here.

The Workspaces screen with two cards, Brontë family of Haworth (2), marked Active, and Brontë family of Haworth, each showing how many people, families and events it holds

Person

This is one person's page: their names, their birth and death, their family and their photos. Find a person shows how to open it.

The lower part of Patrick Brontë's page, with his wife and six children listed, the Photos buttons, and the Edit, Add a record and Delete person buttons

Family tree and Events

See a family tree explains the tree. See the events of a person explains the list of events.

Patrick Brontë's list of events, which are birth, marriage and death, each with a date, a place and a count of sources

Notes

Notes are your own words about a person. Add a note to a person shows how to write one.

The Notes page for Patrick Brontë, showing a note that says he was curate of Haworth, a small badge that says Sources: 0, and Edit and Delete note buttons

Where records are kept, Who made this tree and Research questions and notes

These three pages list things that belong to the whole tree. Each is empty until you add something with +. The first one lists the places where your sources are kept.

The Where records are kept page, with a line that says nothing is there yet and to use the plus button
The Who made this tree page, with a line that says nobody is credited yet and to use the plus button
The Research questions and notes page, with a line that says there are none yet and to use the plus button

Preferences

Choose how the app looks explains the choices on this page.

The Preferences page, with three themes and Oxford and slate chosen, and three looks and Light chosen