What Visual Filters Are You Using

Trevor Willems

I am brand new to Logos and loving every minute of it. I am still learning a lot of the in's and out's, (lets face it, very basic functions), however I can see how helpful visual filters are for all types of study. While messing around with all of the possibilities (just a few, there are thousands) I was wondering what everyone else's go to filters are.  I appreciate any feedback and being lead in the right direction. Glad to be part of this community!

Doc B

Welcome to the forums, Trevor.

I would suggest you go to the Faithlife groups site and do some searching for groups there that specialize in visual filters. There are a number of them that you can download (free, of course) and try them out.

Here's a link to a group of which I'm a member-

   https://faithlife.com/logos-visual-filters/activity

If you go there, join up, then click on the Documents tab, you can find quite a few VFs to download to your Logos software.

To download the Speaker-Person-God VF (for example), hover your mouse over the right side of the link and a dropdown menu will appear ('Actions'). Click it, then click 'Copy' to load this VF document into your copy of Logos.

Doc B

Trevor Willems said:

I was wondering what everyone else's go to filters are

To more directly answer the question you asked, here is a screen shot of my current VFs. They may or may not all make sense. 

Mark Smith

They are powerful, but I find them visually distracting if used too heavily, so tend to turn them off for the most part.

I don't have that many but here are the ones I do have (titles only, but they give you the idea). Most I created. Perhaps two or three are from the Faithlife Visual Filters group.

Mark Smith

Trevor Willems said:

 I appreciate any feedback and being lead in the right direction.

The best visual filters are probably the ones you give some thought to and create on your own. As you are trying to visualize how an author uses a work or word group, how he uses imperatives or participles, the flow of the text as reflected in personal pronouns he uses, or other things that you become curious about, try to create a visual filter to highlight the thing of interest. One that took awhile for me to create but that I really appreciate is my "In Christ in Paul" filter. Another I find helpful is the filter one entitled "Agape, Agapao, Phileo, etc." showing both the agapao and phileo word groups with different highlights.

What you end up highlighting in this way is what interests you and helps inform your study or understanding of the text.

Choosing a good highlight is often a part of the challenge. On a number of occasions I've created my own highlights to do this.

Trevor Willems

Thank you all so much for your help!