Family History and the Atlas

Two toolbar buttons unlock a second layer on top of the tree: a written archive of your family's history, and a historical map of Rwanda to place it on.

Key moments

A person's side panel (Details tab) has its own timeline: key moments — births, marriages, moves, anything with a date and, optionally, a place. This is gated on the Clan protocol specifically (the key_moments feature it grants), which Family History pulls in as a dependency — so adopting Family History is enough to unlock this too.

Open a person, then + Add a moment: pick a type, a date (exact, a year, a range, "around" a year, or relative to an era), and an optional narrative. If you've pinned a location from the atlas (see below), attach it here too.

Historical atlas

Open Historical atlas (the map icon) to see Rwanda's prefectures and communes on a map, switchable between historical eras — the names and boundaries shown change to match the period you select, since prefecture names have changed over time.

• Click a region to see its details in the Selected region panel; click it again to clear the selection.
• Map settings lets you switch between visual presets and toggle commune-level borders on the fine-detail layer.
• Selecting a region also gives you Use this location — copies coordinates you can paste straight into a moment's location field.

Article editor

Open Article editor (the file icon) to write biographies and other articles about people in your tree.

• The main panel is a markdown editor with a formatting toolbar (headings, bold, etc.) and a live Preview tab.
• Upload lets you attach images — each one is embedded into the article text and shown resolved in the preview. Images you've already uploaded this session appear in a gallery so you can reuse them without uploading twice.
• Save persists the article. Reopen any past article from the dropdown at the top instead of starting a new one each time.

My Articles and Manage

Two more tabs turn the editor from "one article at a time" into an archive you can act on:

• My Articles lists every article you've authored, most recently updated first. A small badge shows how many suggestions are waiting on an article. Click a row to open that article and jump straight into Manage.
• Manage is where you act on the currently open article:
  • Assign to a person's history — search for a person and attach the article to them as part of their record; link or unlink any of that person's key moments from the article from the same panel.
  • Pending suggestions — anyone can propose a change to someone else's article (a different title or body, with a note explaining why). If you're the article's author or your family node's admin, you'll see Approve and Reject buttons on each suggestion here; approving merges the suggested change straight into the article.
  • A ← My Articles link at the top of Manage returns you to the list without losing your place.