SUGGESTION: DOCUMENTS (NOTES) LIBRARY with sortable tags
hi can we have a LIBRARY resource Window for Documents NOTES, which remains open? Surely this would complete the usefulness for NOTES? Currently the only way to have a seperate library list of notes is to access them via the Logos website,as the documents notes window in Logos itself is only temporary, it is only open while used and closes immediately after clicking one note resource. Could NOTES be accessed via a proper library window that remained open after clicking on several note files, one after the other?
In addition, if we were to have such a full NOTE LIBRARY, cold we then have the notes tagged and sortable by user defined headings like1/ TITLE, 2/ DATE LAST MODIFIED, 3/ TOPIC, or whatever was considered appropriate?
. The power of DOCUMENTS NOTES would then be more easily used and accessed. It would make a great difference to anyone who uses notes a lot, I have over a thousand note files, and plan ten thousand more.... rounding up their usability by having them organised into a proper DOCUMENTS NOTES LIBRARY would release more of their potential and make the feature superb
thanks Michael
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Hi, Michael:
Welcome to the forums.
You might not be aware that the announced purpose for the Notes function is to take the place of the little notes we all write in the margins of our Bibles. Yes, I abuse this limitation by saving voluminous notes. I'd be pleased and surprised if the Notes function were to be enhance, though.
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hi Jack, thanks for your reply. Yes I was aware the original purpose of the NOTES function was for little notes added to texts.
A few years ago I posted to the forums and even had email correspondance with Dan at logos about revising the function of note files, so as to restore them to their usuability in Libronix, with the SPLIT SCREEN feature, how a note file can be set to list its entries like a contents page in a book resource.
The main argument for this was the limitation of the personal bookbuilder, in so far as the need to rebuild a book every time a small amendment was made. On the contrary the note files update instantly, and are uniquely suited to power use. Re-establishing the SPLIT SCREEN feature of the note files took the potential for using NOTE files far beyond the original logos conception of margin notes.
I for one use note files extensively in a wide variety of ways, for example setting up very detailed and numerous comments on a resource paragraph by paragraph, or even word by word, with links from and to other resources and various biblical texts. I can have hundreds of detailed entries in a note file, and continually add to them, overthe weeks or years, re-order and interlink. Restoring the SPLIT SCREEN was a fantastic enhancement to LOGOS, I would not now be able to use LOGOS ( like I did Libronix) as I do without the ability to view sort arrange and add to notes in a note file.
I have offered to demonstrate how I use NOTE FILES sometime if helpful. Once one starts to use the power of note files in this and other ways, with thousands of large detailed note files, one is struck by the limitation of the DOCUMENTS NOTES window, and the inability to sort or view the note files independantly, which could happen if the DOCUMENTS NOTES were to be developed into the LIBRARY format described in my earlier post, it would be a logical rationalisation and enhance the use of logos for power users and all users, making the NOTES even easier and more powerful to use in many superb ways. I hope others will use the NOTE FILES more to their potential, if they do not already do so.
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It would be wonderful if you would provide some posts on how you use notes - giving them a title that begins "TIP of the day:"
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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hi thanks yes indeed, will aim to do so after some forthcoming exams!
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Michael Perry said:
I for one use note files extensively in a wide variety of ways,
I'd like to look over your shoulder. One way for you to share with the rest of Logos users is to link your Notes files to Faithlife so we can see them. For example, you can see all my Notes files there. Here's how to do it:
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hi Jack thanks for the email and the link. It will probably be clearest for other users, if I produce 5-6 typical types of Note files, of my various uses, with explanations.Many of my existing working files may relate to research yet to be formally completed,so it might not yet be appropriate to share them publicly. Nothing I've done with the NOTE FILES is particularly sophisticated, and each system or procedure can be improved. It would be interesting to flag up how some Logos technical tinkering could make a few things one click procedures, more later..
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Michael Perry said:
Many of my existing working files may relate to research yet to be formally completed...
If you understand the Bible to be an integrated whole, your Notes can never be complete. After diligently studying the Bible for over half a century, a scripture can still jump out at me that changes my understanding and requires major revision of my Notes all over the Bible. It happened twice to me just last year. May the Lord bless your investigations.
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hi Jack thanks indeed, I did not mean I was waiting for theological/spiritual completion,..(.. as if..!..), I meant not yet ready to be presented academically to earn my Mphil/phD, where I have to pass a body of ideas off as my own work. which means holding fire until submission to the department or publication etc. I hope this helps best wishes Michael
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