What I expect(ed) in Logos 6 that still isn't here ...

I'm getting ready to start having daily TIP of the day's again ... with the added feature of slowly incorporating their information into the wiki. To do this I went through the entire TOC of the help document and was both encouraged and discouraged. I thought back to the early days of Logos 6 and the concerted effort on documentation and training that followed. I thought about items that we were told would be expanded ... and hints here and there of features that were hinted at. The result is this list of what I am still waiting for ...

fuzzy search (yup, been waiting since the release of L4)
reorganizing of Liturgy section of Passage Guide to be organized along theological tradition lines
adding of a hymn feature (I keep hearing and hearing but never seeing)
addition of deuterocanonical events to Bible Event Browser
more visibility as to what books are used for what sections of the Guides ... and which are not
being able to label outlines and have them appear in the Passage Guide Outline section (I mean it works for Sermons)
completion of Guide sections documentation in Help (nearly 40 don't appear in TOC)
completion of Interactives documentation in Help (11 don't appear in TOC)
more expansion in certain interactives: Before and After; Narrative Character Maps; Bible People Visual Timelines ... they have potential if the right people and places are available but ...
modifying the Counting of the Ten Commandments to recognize Deuteronomy as well as Exodus (yes, I am obsessed about this)
making it possible to enter a comment in the answer section of a Prayer List without it closing the request (okay I'm obsessed about this as well).
more obvious progress in the linking resources to rabbinic and patristic materials (after the Ancient Literature section perhaps my hopes were raised too high)
interactives for Biblical Theology and Confessional Documents paralleling the one for Systematic Theology (okay this was a very recent addition to my expectation list)
link to Text This Week ... after all there are several sermon sites and external manuscript links, even Wikipedia ... why can't this one basic RCL based site be added (I mean who can resist supporting a Mother with an adult autistic child?)
more obvious progress in adding Logos authors to Factbook

Note this is not a list of what I dreamed for ... things like reworking of the prioritization system, a replacement for the old Bible study lesson builder where we in effect actually lost resources ... but of things that there was real reason to hope for.

What are you still waiting for?

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Reuben Helmuth

Great list, MJ!

Besides fuzzy search which you mentioned, the things that top my wait list are:

•Fixing the morphology charts (great new feature which apparently got dropped when the problems were more complex than expected). Also, this is one of those that usage metrics probably indicate that nobody uses, but who would if they don't work?!

•Increase startup speed by including a "skip sync during startup" setting and/or having a network activity delay setting.

•Support better Menu bar customization

https://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-6/suggestions/4293374-allow-users-to-customize-shortcut-bar-icons

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/124900.aspx

https://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-6/suggestions/13228146-give-us-a-larger-more-flexible-shortcut-bar-dock

• Allow individual instances of a Bible to display certain filters/highlights (consider the propositional outlines or such). There have been a number of threads requesting this or related functionality, but i didn't take time to look them up.

• Add management of hidden resources, perhaps going as far as to allow filtering/searching/sorting/tagging of hidden resources.

I have a LOT more on my wish/waiting list, but these are a good start! 😉

Don Awalt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/835401#Comment_835401

My usual suspects - you can't even properly perform a search against Notes, if you have some long ones, because the results are not highlighted. It amazes me this is still an issue given that search is such a bread-and-butter function of Logos.

Personal Books is in great need of completion of the original implementation - I have 306 of them, and the library management functions are virtually non-existent since it was introduced in Logos 4. Look at the recent threads on how to delete PBs, why the need for multiple steps? You'll see a thread on being unable to delete a book from the servers. You can't easily see what resources you have uploaded to servers. There is no ability to perform a multiple compile, say if you added a tag to a series of PBs and want to recompile. There are lots more use cases of things hard to do with a larger library of personal books.

These are far less glamorous than new features being added to Logos however so I doubt the job will ever be completed.

Dan Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/835404#Comment_835404

Logos is famous for vapourware. I am not saying they have no intention on doing things but things will French never get done many 4 features never came to pass same as in 5. And handouts were officially abandoned for Mac although there has been talk that it may disapeear from the PCs side as well. I wish Logos would refrain from announcing things that are not under active development and almost ready to release.

Dan