[resolved] How is this helpful?--Searched highlights grouped by chapter

As per the instructions here, I can search my highlights.

However, when I do so, the search results are grouped by chapter. Can someone explain how this is useful? I am probably missing something, but this isn't what I was expecting.

I am wanting to look through my highlights in this book and would like to be able to access all of them without having to click to open each chapter and then manually scrolling until I find all of the highlighted passages and then manually copy/pasting them. What am I missing? (print/export prints the 6 grouped results as soon below and not the 35 individually highlighted passages.)

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JT (alabama24)

I am wanting to look through my highlights in this book and would like to be able to access all of them without having to click to open each chapter and then manually scrolling until I find all of the highlighted passages and then manually copy/pasting them. What am I missing?

If you used what I like to call "the right way," it would be simple. [:P]

I highlight using "resource specific" note documents. I can then click on "quotes" view in my document:

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717963#Comment_717963

With resource specific highlighting then don't you have dozens of highlight pallets?

I did read a little more carefully and discovered that I can do an inline search for highlights. Unfortunately, I can't export them. But at least I can read them.

Mark Barnes

Don't listen to Alabama [:P]. Just use an inline search if you want to see all of the search results in the actual resource itself. You can add context by changing the "Sentence" dropdown.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717966#Comment_717966

With resource specific highlighting then don't you have dozens of highlight pallets?

Not if you do it, what I like to call, "the right way."

in my mind, there is no reason to associate or group highlight notes with a pallet, so I changed the default behavior. Most people could probably care less for "highlights as notes," although I can see the benefit. The default behavior SHOULD have always been resource specific note files, hidden away unless needed.

in the pallet menu, you can change the storage location to "most recent note document" and create a resource named note document for each book (as needed). This works very well if you are a "read through a book" user. Much less useful if you open 20 resources and jump between them quickly.

Yasmin Stephen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718049#Comment_718049

The default behavior SHOULD have always been resource specific note files, hidden away unless needed.

[Y]

in the pallet menu, you can change the storage location to "most recent note document" and create a resource named note document for each book (as needed). This works very well if you are a "read through a book" user. Much less useful if you open 20 resources and jump between them quickly.

I use the 'most recent document' method but I'm one of those people reading multiple books at a time so I created a master note file (ingeniously named 'Dump Notes Here' [:P]) and I take one day a week (mostly Fridays) to move notes to their specific files. This is not ideal but the best solution for me right now.

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718025#Comment_718025

Just use an inline search if you want to see all of the search results in the actual resource itself. You can add context by changing the "Sentence" dropdown.

Thank you Mark. Is there any way of exporting this? If I "Send to search panel", I end up where I started. Visual filter document doesn't work as I have more than one highlight that I am searching for. Bibliography simply reminds me that Logos started in Oak Harbor and "send to word list document" has confused logos. Export/Print gives the choice of printing chapters or sub-chapters but not my results. Any ideas?

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718053#Comment_718053

The default behavior SHOULD have always been resource specific note files, hidden away unless needed.

I use the 'most recent document' method but I'm one of those people reading multiple books at a time so I created a master note file (ingeniously named 'Dump Notes Here' ) and I take one day a week (mostly Fridays) to move notes to their specific files. This is not ideal but the best solution for me right now.

Thank you both. I now see how to change the storage location of the highlights. This generates so many questions.

1. So you end up with having your comments and highlights in the same resource specific note document?

2. How do you "move" highlights to their specific files now?

3. So I read all 7 books I have by E. M. Bounds and have 7 resource specific note files (or is that 14 because my comments and highlights are separate???) I know that in a single search I can look for {highlight myhighlight} etc. in all 7 books but they are grouped as per my original post. Is there a work around?

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718076#Comment_718076

BTW in case someone is tempted, DON'T. [:D]

I saw that instead of search "all text" I could specify my highlight pallet. Long story short. Searching * takes a long time. The only visible change is that instead of 42 results I have 1711. The same text appears to be highlighted, but where I had highlighted paragraphs, these are now showing as individual sentences. (Before even when viewing by sentence, contiguously highlighted sentences would be grouped together as one search result.)

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718069#Comment_718069

Is there any way of exporting this?

Sort of. Here are the steps:

Do the the inline search, as demonstrated above.
Select the entire highlighted text by clicking at the beginning, then shift+clicking at the end.
Choose print/export, and make sure "Use selected text" is chosen.

This works fine, except in the preview, each quote is on a different page. So, if you're exporting you'll need to delete all the page breaks. However, when you export to Microsoft Word, the page breaks aren't exported, so it works OK. The only other problem is that it doesn't give you the locations of individual passages.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718076#Comment_718076

So you end up with having your comments and highlights in the same resource specific note document?

If you choose to do so. I probably would. If I were in school and had to do a "book report," I would probably create a project specific note file in addition to a resource specific one. The "project specific" one might actually be a clipping document. The question for me would be: "Why am I making comments"? If it is largely for comprehension, and something I may or may not come back to, I would probably put them in the resource specific note file. If I were working on any sort of project, I would use my best judgement. For example: If I were writing a sermon, it wouldn't make sense to have notes in 20 different files. [;)]

How do you "move" highlights to their specific files now?

Unfortunately there is only one way: click and drag. You really need to have them open side by side to accomplish this.

Is there a work around?

I don't know.

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718080#Comment_718080

Thanks Mark,

Select the entire highlighted text by clicking at the beginning, then shift+clicking at the end.

This was a little problematic on my mac and mouse pad scrolling through several pages. Wish there were a "select all" feature or an actual key-stroke that worked.

Choose print/export, and make sure "Use selected text" is chosen.

The highlights also aren't saved and since I was searching {Highlight *} it would have been nice to keep the different markups. Not the end of the world, but something to know.

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718084#Comment_718084

Something I just discovered as per the search below. I was looking up all the times I had ever highlighted text with the word "pray" in it. The results below show anytime the word pray occurs in an article in which I have highlighted text.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718085#Comment_718085

The results below show anytime the word pray occurs in an article in which I have highlighted text.

which is clear since you search

{Highlight General Emphasis} AND pray

not

pray WITHIN {Highlight General Emphasis}

(edited for right syntax).

Schumitinu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718080#Comment_718080

Sort of. Here are the steps:

Do the the inline search, as demonstrated above.

Select the entire highlighted text by clicking at the beginning, then shift+clicking at the end.

Choose print/export, and make sure "Use selected text" is chosen.

This works fine, except in the preview, each quote is on a different page. So, if you're exporting you'll need to delete all the page breaks. However, when you export to Microsoft Word, the page breaks aren't exported, so it works OK. The only other problem is that it doesn't give you the locations of individual passages.

Thanks Mark! I was wondering about that myself. Now, I also like the 'Quotes' view in the notes document to skim through highlighted text of a book. Is there a way to export that particular view? Or a way to export from the notes document so it shows the full highlighted text?

Also, could highlighted text be easily transferred into a clipping document? I'm thinking through my highlighting and note taking strategy, that's why I ask these questions. If I know the possibilities and limitations of the software I'm in a better place to choose the right tool to start off with. I appreciate you guys' insights and experience.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718200#Comment_718200

Now, I also like the 'Quotes' view in the notes document to skim through highlighted text of a book. Is there a way to export that particular view? Or a way to export from the notes document so it shows the full highlighted text?

Unfortunately not, in either case.

could highlighted text be easily transferred into a clipping document?

By doing an inline search, then selecting all text, you can drag all highlighted text into a clipping document, but all the text will go into one clipping.

I should also have said earlier that if you copy from the context menu, instead of print/export, then you'll get the locations of individual passages in your copied text (sort of, at least).

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718096#Comment_718096

pray WITHIN {Highlight General Emphasis}

Yes. This does it. Thanks.

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718292#Comment_718292

I should also have said earlier that if you copy from the context menu, instead of print/export, then you'll get the locations of individual passages in your copied text (sort of, at least).

How do you do that?

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718317#Comment_718317

The context menu is the official name of the right-click menu.

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718318#Comment_718318

Didn't get individual locations, but still very helpful for copying the search results to clipboard.

Schumitinu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718025#Comment_718025

You can add context by changing the "Sentence" dropdown.

Is this a beta option? I don't see that button to change the context when I do an inline search in non-Bible books.

I'm using Logos 6.2

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718775#Comment_718775

Is this a beta option? I don't see that button to change the context when I do an inline search in non-Bible books.

Not all resources have the "Sentence" context option available; generally, it's only in those rebuilt after (approx) Sep-Oct 2014.

Schumitinu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718787#Comment_718787

Thanks, Bradley. Too bad though!