# Navigation

One of the major GEDKeeper features is to provide very efficient navigation.

That is why the main window of GEDKeeper allows quick access to the six main categories of records with a summary area to the right of the lists—where you can easily view information about a record and use hyperlinks to go to other, related records.

The following record types are self-contained:

- Notes — any text added to a person, family, or event. When a respective option is on, notes can be viewed on a pedigree image.
- Multimedia content — any kind of photo, audio record, or video record, that you attached to a person, family or event. You can add text and other types of documents as well.
- Sources — a special object that stores information about an archive or other types of documents or articles.
- Groups — an object that can unite different individuals using some common attribute or relation. For example, you can create "The Great Patriotic War veterans" group and use it afterward to quickly find all persons who participated in WWII.

To access a list of records of each type, you use tabs.

The lists' columns show you the most important information.

You can use any column to order a list. To do that just click a column header.

The record summary area shows links to other related records as blue underlined text (hyperlinks). If you click such text you jump to a respective record in this or another list.