SUGGESTION: Tool to assist in the usefulness of older references TAGGING SUBSTITUTE ASSISTANT

See https://community.logos.com/forums/p/120493/788502.aspx#788502

The problem is that older resources do not have hyperlinks to new resources. When the link is to an independent book or a journal will volume and issue given, this is no big deal. However, when a reference is to a book hidden in "The Works of" or an anthology, it can be a nuisance to find a source. It would be nice if the works with datatypes were accessible by author-title and/or title. When we find the right title we could then click and open [our choice or highest priority] resource that contains the work.

If you wanted to snazz it up a bit you could make the tool recognize common abbreviations for a work so that one could highlight reference-activate tool - see possible links in a simple flow.

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Veli Voipio

[Y] I am afraid I don't fully understand what you wrote, but I support it anyway

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/788598#Comment_788598

Thanks for letting me know I wasn't clear. The problem is that if a resource link is not to book with it's own title, it isn't simple to open the resource to read the link.

For resources having a datatype (a technical Logos term) one can use that datatype to find the resource that contains the link.

I'm suggesting a tool that lets us enter an author and title and returns to us the resources that contain it and allows us to open one of them. So if I have five different books that contain the 1st Epistle of Clement, I can find it immediately rather than running a search to find it somewhere in my early church fathers collection.

Ideally if I have something selected, it would be able to determine author and title. But even if it didn't and I had to enter author and title it would still be no more typing than a Search ... and I hope fewer click to get to it.

Veli Voipio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/788600#Comment_788600

Ok, I think I understand it.

I've been suggesting something similar before, calling it "intelligent links", that could also link to the newer version/edition of the resource (either automatically or user assisted), when the old one is not in the library, like BAGD/BDAG. I would think that this could add some competitive edge to the FL products if properly implemented.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/788600#Comment_788600

I'm suggesting a tool that lets us enter an author and title and returns to us the resources that contain it and allows us to open one of them. So if I have five different books that contain the 1st Epistle of Clement, I can find it immediately rather than running a search to find it somewhere in my early church fathers collection.

I think a sort of "Fuzzy Power Lookup" is a superb idea. The idea being that we could type in a reference, and if that reference roughly matched a datatype, then Logos would display possible datatypes and their associated resources. Ideally, it could be invoked from the context menu, too. That would be a brilliant way to try and look up references that haven't been linked, and also a great way to find documents when you're not sure where they are in your library.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/788611#Comment_788611

I think a sort of "Fuzzy Power Lookup" is a superb idea. The idea being that we could type in a reference, and if that reference roughly matched a datatype, then Logos would display possible datatypes and their associated resources. Ideally, it could be invoked from the context menu, too. That would be a brilliant way to try and look up references that haven't been linked, and also a great way to find documents when you're not sure where they are in your library.

That would work well as an implementation.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/788618#Comment_788618

I think a sort of "Fuzzy Power Lookup" is a superb idea. The idea being that we could type in a reference, and if that reference roughly matched a datatype, then Logos would display possible datatypes and their associated resources. Ideally, it could be invoked from the context menu, too. That would be a brilliant way to try and look up references that haven't been linked, and also a great way to find documents when you're not sure where they are in your library.

That would work well as an implementation.

That would be a great new feature.