Tasks on Windows 10?

DouglasShannon1

I have a question about my task list. Up to this point, I have always cleared my tasks on my Samsung Galaxy Android phone, and the process is super easy. The two columns for comparison are displayed side by side, and it is a fast way to compare the information.

I would like to start to use Windows 10 to clear my tasks, because my Dell PC is where I do almost all of my genealogical work. However, unlike the Android task list, I am really confused under Windows 10. When I click on a task person's Review button, instead of bringing two comparison columns, it just brings up the page for that one person. It shows me who is attached to that person, family members, etc, but I don't see what the "task" is - what am I supposed to do?

Please advise. Thank you!

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I'm not LDS, so I don't have Tasks, I just have Hints. Those are all, well, hints: possible matches between the indexed records database and profiles of my relatives in Family Tree. Are Tasks sometimes something else?

Gordon Collett

Since there are two places to work on tasks, I'm not entire sure if I will be starting the same place you are or whether things look the same under macOS as in Windows 10, but here is the general procedure for working on Tasks/Hints.

I can either click on the main Hints tab at the top of the page or I can click on Hint in the small box on the left hand side:

Both get me to the same place. However, if you click on the person's name, you go to that person's profile page but that also gets you to the same place eventually.

1) If I click on Hints in the menu bar I come here:

Now I can again click on the person's name and go to his profile, or I can click on the blue button to open the list of hints of him:

Now I need to click anywhere in the box for a hint to open it:

Clicking the Review button takes me to where I carefully and fully review the hint to make sure it really is for Lambert:

(Be aware that the task lists on the web page are only updated periodically. If the hint is already attached, Instead of seeing "Possible Family Tree Match" you will see who it is attached to.)

Then I click Attach to Family Tree to attach it:

2) If I click on the blue button in the Record Hints box, I come to the person on the Hints page with the list of Hints open like this:

then proceed on the same way.

3) It can actually be most efficient to just go to the person's page. You will find only hints that are not yet attached there. Get there by clicking on the person's name then work on the hints from there: