Pros & Cons of Separating Highlights from Actual Notes

I know there have been several threads dealing with note files, but I have a specific question that I don't recall seeing discussed--i.e. if there are pros and/or cons to keeping your actual text notes in separate files from your highlighting notes.

To clarify... the threads I've read often focus on the pros & cons of having a separate notes file for each monograph (or perhaps one file for each book of the Bible and related Bible commentaries) VS. having fewer notes files. But I'm wondering about any pros and cons that might be worth keeping in mind when considering whether or not to keep all highlighting notes in the same files as actual text notes.

For Example

Let's say I'm reading a couple of commentaries on Genesis. My past approach has been to keep a Genesis notes file of my making for my actual text notes as I read through the commentaries, and since both commentaries are dealing with the book of Genesis, my notes from both go in the same Genesis notes file. But I allowed my highlighting to go to the default Highlight notes files that Logos creates. So all of "my" Genesis notes are in "my" Genesis notes file and all of my highlights in the commentaries are in Logos' default notes file for the Highlighting style I happened to use.

After reading some of the other threads, I got the impression many/most people keep both Highlight notes and actual text notes in the same notes file, so I started the painful process of locating all my highlighting notes and moving them to the appropriate files housing my textual notes. But I'm wondering if it's worth the effort. I.e. are there long-term technical/system performance factors that will benefit from keeping them together? Are there organizational/methodological processes that will benefit from keeping them together? Any other factors to consider?

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MJ. Smith

My reason for keeping them together is simple - fewer notes to set to "show" as I like to keep a relatively clean text with few filters and notes.

Rick Ausdahl

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/712537#Comment_712537

My reason for keeping them together is simple - fewer notes to set to "show" as I like to keep a relatively clean text with few filters and notes.

Thanks, MJ!

A couple of things I was thinking might be cons if letting all highlight notes default to the Logos palette(s) are:

Degradation of Logos performance/response if dealing with just a few "forever" growing highlighting notes files.
A potential for a huge loss of highlighting "if" one of the default notes files were corrupted, lost, or accidentally deleted.

I understand there are suppose to be some safeguards in place to recover notes files--but even so, the thought of losing all those eggs because they were in one basket just feels more risky, even if it isn't. [*-)]

Levi Durfey

I do both. For the Bible, I keep my highlighting and text notes in separate files. One reason is that I like to export my Bible notes on a regular basis so that my kids will be able to have a PDF copy someday.

For most other books, I combine the text notes and highlighting notes. One book = one note document. I don't take a lot of text notes on other resources, and they aren't the sort of notes I would need to share with my kids one day, so I don't feel it's worth the hassle.

So, if you are interested in sharing your notes with others, kids or colleagues, who don't have Logos...keep your notes separate from your highlights—much easier (although not impossible) to export.

Rick Ausdahl

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/712663#Comment_712663

I do both. For the Bible, I keep my highlighting and text notes in separate files. One reason is that I like to export my Bible notes on a regular basis so that my kids will be able to have a PDF copy someday.

For most other books, I combine the text notes and highlighting notes. One book = one note document. I don't take a lot of text notes on other resources, and they aren't the sort of notes I would need to share with my kids one day, so I don't feel it's worth the hassle.

So, if you are interested in sharing your notes with others, kids or colleagues, who don't have Logos...keep your notes separate from your highlights—much easier (although not impossible) to export.

Thanks, Integ! That's an interesting consideration. Just to clarify, in that approach do you include commentaries in the "most other books" category?

Levi Durfey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/712668#Comment_712668

Yes, I normally do.