"Default" icons and colours for note indicators

Graham Criddle said:

I am using a notesfile to write notes associated with my devotional readings.

I am using a circular icon coloured in orange.

Every time I add a new note to the file I need to explicitly set the colour and the shape of the indicator.

Would it be possible for these to be defaulted to what was used in the previous note in the notesfile?

Graham

Graham,

At the very bottom of the highlight palette (doesn't scroll) are the words "Use this style by default." It works for me.

But I agree, it would be nice, if Logos remembered our last used style too, with perhaps a one-button solution for each: use last used style/use default style.

Graham Criddle said:

Can you be more specific as to where this is?

Here's a screen shot. Note that this is taken from within the note file itself by clicking on the note icon. For this note file I've chosen a light grey box with double grey underline (it seems the least intrusive, yet still visible method--for me). I captured all around the dialog box to make sure you can see what you're looking at:

The red arrows indicate what this style 'remembers:'  The note indicator, the indicator color, whether or not to simply highlight or not, or if a palette style was chosen, and which one.

Hope this helps.

(Using 4.5 Beta 2)

Graham Criddle said:

As far as I can see you only get this dialog box (the bit below the note colours) if the note has been created by highlighting - not if it has been created by just adding a note from a text.

Yes I see what you mean. I have a note file with notes that aren't associated with any resource (one of them for keeping stuff associated with these forums!). There is no ability to select a default style there.

What do you mean by "just adding a note from a text"?

Graham Criddle said:

I've just tried to apply it and it doesn't seem to affect the icon associated with a note created using the right-click menu on some text.

Not sure I follow.

Are you saying that when you create a new note by right clicking on text in a resource, the default style isn't applied? What sort of text?

Are you saying the default doesn't change existing notes to the default? That's what I wish I could do too! So far, this is not possible.

Are you saying something else? I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here.

Okay, I'm playing around with this a bit.

If I right-click on a Bible verse number (e.g.), I notice I get a different dialog box than if I select that verse number and then right click. If I then add a note from a reference selection, I don't get my default style in the note file. But if I click text, it automatically selects the word I clicked and offers to let me add a note to the Selection or the Reference.

It seems the difference is related to whether or not the note is added to Selection or Reference, regardless of other factors.

Does that represent what you're seeing?

Regardless, we may want to add a suggestion that Logos allows us to select a default box style & color for notes attached to a Reference.

Melissa Snyder said:

Graham Criddle said:

Hi Melissa

Just wondered if you had had a chance to look at this thread and whether you had any thoughts / comments?

Graham

 

I may be misunderstanding what you're wanting to do, but it seems that the ability to choose a default highlighting style for this type of note is already available. When you add a note to selected text and click on the note indicator for the newly added note in corresponding document, you can select a highlighting style and then you can click on "Use this style by default" which will be used for any subsequent notes added to selected text which are added to that Notes document.

This is true for notes added to "Selection".

However, if you want to add a note to a "Reference" (not to "selection"), then the default is not remembered, and no option to use a default icon/palette is visible. Some users prefer to add notes to a Reference so that it is visible in all their Bibles. It is rather cumbersome that Logos doesn't allow for a user preference, nor does it remember the last selected style.

Melissa Snyder said:

Update:  This will be included in Beta 6 for Mac and Windows versions.

I don't think the implementation in B6 is what was being asked  e.g. a different note indicator for "Notes by Reference".

If I click Matt 2:3 and apply its style as Default then new "Notes by Selection" have the same note indicator and orange highlighting (which is Yuk!). Conversely, if Matt 5:15 becomes the Default new "Notes by Reference" have the same note indicator (and no highlighting is applied).

What do you think, Richard and Graham?

Dave Hooton said:

What do you think, Richard and Graham?

I rarely attach notes to reference, since they tend to show up in commentaries and such too, and after a while it gets too distracting, so I generally attach notes to my primary Bible. The opposite of my brother Graham, apparently.

I was fine with how they worked before and am happy with how they work now.

I might be happier if I could set a default style for each note file, but I'd rather Logos put its efforts elsewhere (still waiting on the Sermon File addin, e.g.).

MJ. Smith said:

My practice matched Graham's - and they are filtered out of the commentaries.

Notes by Reference are still in  commentaries!

Here's a real bug, though   -- you can try but you won't find them anywhere, even though Annotation is switched on (in Locator bar).

Dave Hooton said:

Notes by Reference are still in  commentaries!

Here's a real bug, though   -- you can try but you won't find them anywhere, even though Annotation is switched on (in Locator bar).

Oops, I hadn't checked it recently.[:$] as I am setting up a new year.