Redesigned for Researchers: Usability and Performance Upgrades That Matter

As Genealogy Genie AI has grown, so have the research projects of our users. What started as a tool for managing a few dozen individuals has evolved into a platform handling complex family trees with hundreds or even thousands of people, relationships, and events. With that growth came an important realization: the interface elements we built for debugging and development were getting in the way of your research flow.

Our new individual management panel.

This summer, we put our user experience designers to work on a complete reimagining of how you interact with Genealogy Genie AI. The goal was simple yet challenging: to preserve all the powerful insights and capabilities while making the application more user-friendly.

Meet Your New Research Companion: The Individual Management Panel

The cornerstone of our usability improvements is the new individual management panel. Think of it as your always-available research assistant that slides out whenever you need it.

Instead of navigating away from your current screen to view someone's details, you can now access individual information with a simple click. Whether you're clicking a name link, double-clicking a family tree entry, or selecting an eye icon, the panel smoothly slides out from the side of your screen.

What can you do in this panel?

• View complete individual details at a glance.

• Edit information without losing your place.

• Add new relationships on the fly.

• Access full timelines instantly.

• Keep your research momentum going.

Watch the demonstration here to see how this transforms your workflow.

No More Waiting: Instant Access to Your Research

Remember watching that loading spinner for what felt like forever? We do too, and we weren't happy about it.

Our engineering team examined the capabilities of modern web browsers and implemented a solution that revolutionizes everything. Genealogy Genie AI now builds browser-side indexes of your research information, similar to how Office 365 and Google Docs manage large documents.

The result?

• Dramatically faster navigation between screens.

• Instant access to your data.

• Background saving without interrupting your research.

• Seamless cloud synchronization.

You will see targeted progress information when you first connect to Genealogy Genie AI, as we quickly refresh the browser indexes. You will also receive a brief confirmation when we've queued your requests to our AI.

When you first connect to Genealogy Genie AI, you'll see targeted progress information as we quickly refresh the browser indexes. After that, everything happens behind the scenes. You'll only notice a brief confirmation when we've queued requests to our AI. No more watching progress bars eat up your research time.

The Philosophy Behind the Changes

These improvements reflect a core principle we've embraced: your focus should be on discovering your family's story, not on managing software. Every design decision we made this summer asked the same question: "Does this help researchers stay in their flow state?"

The consolidation of information into accessible panels, the elimination of unnecessary navigation, and the dramatic performance improvements all serve that single purpose—keeping you, the researcher, focused on what matters most.

We're excited for you to experience these changes in our upcoming Release Candidate. Your research deserves tools that work as hard as you do.