Text of highlight truncated in Notes

I assume that you are referring to what you see in the screen shot below. If you will notice, Amos 4:13 is a long section; Amos 5:14-15 is truncated. The answer to this is that the first was made using the new mobile app, the second was made in L4 on my Mac.

I don't think Logos intended the highlight notes to be used as notes per se. What you are seeing is actually the title for the note. Notice that there is a box under Amos 5:14-15. This is where the "note" would go. I assume the reason for the truncation is to keep the note files smaller. The reason the titles are there in the first place is to help you know which note goes with which highlight. I think the reason the mobile app puts the entire passage in is that it is a bug, or that the app isn't capable (yet) of truncating the title. Thats my guess at least.

Fred Greco said:

I understand that. It makes sense. But that would mean, for example, that it is impossible to print out my notes in a single note file. That makes notes not as useful - it would be good if I could access all my notes on a passage, book, or section of Scripture.

I agree. I am not sure if anyone else was doing what you are suggesting. Apple recently released an update to their book reader and it turns all highlights into notecards which can be studied.

Dave Hooton said:

alabama24 said:

Ahh… but highlights CAN be searched. 

It's not good when text is truncated and you search My Content. You can search for text in a palette/style in Entire Library but it takes e.g. 30s vs 0.01s in My Content

Concur, personally would prefer complete highlighted selection in Notes Title (with display option in Notes to show abbreviated Title on 1 line).

Logos User Voice suggestion => Highlighting and Notes Integration Improvements

Keep Smiling [:)]

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

Concur, personally would prefer complete highlighted selection in Notes Title (with display option in Notes to show abbreviated Title on 1 line).

I understand what you guys are saying, and I think it would be great if some sort of change could be made that would accommodate your desired usage, but I think you are absolutely wrong. Again, I stress that what everyone is currently asking for is not the complete quote in the note body but (as you say) in the Notes Title. I see that you have thought this through to some extent in that you desire for the option of an abbreviated title, but this is short sighted. The "Notes Title" should continue to be an automatic truncated version of the quote. This should be used to identity and organize your notes. You can change it to anything you want (i.e. thematic titles such as Justification). It should remain an auto truncated quote merely for the sake of identification purposes. Second, there should be a line for the quote in its entirety. Finally, there should remain a field for personal comments.

Here is what I would suggest:

Title: (truncated auto quote is good)
Quote: (passage in its entirety)
Note: Personal Comments

Dave Hooton said:

The Documents index is much smaller than the resources' Library index, so a My Content (All Text) search takes 0.01s.

I see now. Thanks for explaining. [:)]

Dave Hooton said:

alabama24 said:

I am not a programmer, but it seems to me that these two searches are doing the same thing. I don't know why they would be so dramatically different in speed. Is this an issue of optimizing the program?

The main reason is the inefficiency of the field search (using pallett/style) as an ALL TEXT search takes 5.5s vs.37s on my laptop. The Documents index is much smaller than the resources' Library index, so a My Content (All Text) search takes 0.01s.

From a technical perspective I don't see why Logos did not provide a pure palette/style search of My Content (without text input). When you create a highlight they could add a field (style) entry with the highlight text that is put into the Documents index. Instead they kludged a style match into a resource search of Entire Library, which implies that the style information is fetched from the Notes database.

fgh said:

You can search for a word that's been truncated away? Don't think so...

You are searching the wrong field. I just did a search for "ministry growth." Notice that "ministry growth" is not in the truncated title line of the note. By the way, it took less than 2 seconds to find it for me. [The brevity of the search was because this was a personal book]