Please add a way for me to put footnotes in the sermon editor.

I still footnote everything I type, even if it will never be published. When I take a direct quote from a source I can copy and paste, and a link is created and voilà I have the essence of a footnote.

BUT

When I take an idea from a source and wish to acknowledge it, there is currently no way I can find to include a footnote/link.

Help!

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Bill Moore

Yes, this is much needed.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/843312#Comment_843312

Right now I have to inline cite (Moore, Bill - p 27) and I really don't like that format at all, especially when preaching.

Bill Moore

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/843314#Comment_843314

And if you quoted me in a sermon, your hearers would like it even less. [:)]

John Duffy

I still footnote everything I type, even if it will never be published. When I take a direct quote from a source I can copy and paste, and a link is created and voilà I have the essence of a footnote.

BUT

When I take an idea from a source and wish to acknowledge it, there is currently no way I can find to include a footnote/link.

Help!

Yes, while quotes from Logos are clickable in Sermon Editor, we need a way to acknowledge sources from elsewhere, e.g. webpages. Links put inline with the sermon text are not ideal.

One workaround is to have a final heading and text after the end of the sermon text, where all footnotes are pasted manually, with numbered references to the place in the text where they are associated.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/846693#Comment_846693

Ah, back to the manual typewriter. [:^)]

Jason Bearup

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/846720#Comment_846720

I would also like to have the ability to link to a notes file in the Sermon Editor. When I am preparing a sermon or a series I will often use clippings or notes to organize ideas. If I wanted to preach the sermon at a later time it would be nice to be able to locate those notes and clipping quickly with a link in the footer of the sermon.

Can some of this be accomplished already?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/901573#Comment_901573

Hi Jason - and welcome to the forums

You can't currently include links to notes or clippin in a sermon document.

You could use Favorites - https://wiki.logos.com/Favorites - to group them all together though

Graham

Jason Bearup

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/901575#Comment_901575

yes that is what I am doing. But I am trying to prevent from having a cluttered favorites section. Possibly in the private notes section of the sermon header we could use wiki links? At some point?

Philana R. Crouch

I've let the team know about this request.

Josh Pannell

Yes. This is a much needed tool. I like to use sermon editor and print out handouts from it. It would be nice to make no edits to the document in Word after I export.

Mason Phillips

I just wanted to echo this request. It's so major!

My current solution is to add a bracket and number in extra small format, like - [1] and then add a section at the bottom of the document with the footnote references. Aesthetically, I don't really like it, but it is better than nothing.

We need to be able to add links, images, and footnotes into the sermon editor for me to use it completely.

P.S. Any Logos reps: please look into MultiMarkdown. It is a lightweight plain text format that can be easily styled and exported into a multitude of formats. It also handles links, images, and footnotes. In my opinion, this would be a better option than Microsoft Word for creating sermon documents and personal books.

Jeff Hale

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1050189#Comment_1050189

This I the way that I handle footnotes in the sermon editor too. Aside for the fact that you have to do it manually at all, when you make a change in content early in the manuscript, then you have to change all the citations that follow. That's been a deal breaker for me for several years. I stopped using the sermon editor precisely because this basic feature of automatic footnoting is missing. I recently came back to try the sermon editor again. I love the integration with the rest of Logos, but the lack of footnote capacity in the sermon editor is difficult to understand. I hope it will be a top priority for an update.

Levi Stuckey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1096276#Comment_1096276

Agree. This is a huge need. I'm not a coder, so I don't know how hard or easy this is to do, but this is a big deal. We need a way to footnote and link to sources. None of us want to be plagiarizing stuff and footnotes are the most unintrusive form of documentation, which is important for a sermon manuscript.

David Thomas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1113773#Comment_1113773

footnotes are the most unintrusive form of documentation,

While not native to Sermon Editor - My workflow is to write my sermon in Word (a habit I developed before PBB), In WORD I change all footnotes to endnotes, then I copy and paste from WORD into Sermon Editor, this embeds my endnotes into my sermon document (although they are not live links). Then from Sermon Editor I export to Proclaim where further editing of presentation slides/notes is done.