Clippings and Time-limited Free Access Resources

Timothy Drawbaugh

Recently I have been enjoying the 45-day free access to Dr. Heiser's "The Unseen Realm" and have been making clippings and notes as I progress through the reading plan from Lexham Press. My question, what happens to clippings and notes made from a time-limited free access resource? Do they remain in the Documents in Logos, or do they expire along with the resource? This question also  pertains to the monthly free access resources available which members enjoy in Logos Now. Has anyone had experience in this area? Thanks in advance!

Timothy

Mark Smith

Timothy Drawbaugh said:

My question, what happens to clippings and notes made from a time-limited free access resource? Do they remain in the Documents in Logos, or do they expire along with the resource?

Your files remain and your own entered notes are preserved. Anything copied from the resource to the file is lost.

I haven't tried it, but would hope that if I purchased the work later that everything would be restored. That's probably overly optimistic.

Andrew Batishko

If you want to verify what happens, try hiding the resource. Then open your notes and highlighting and see what they look like. Then you can unhide the resource again.

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/881982#Comment_881982

Doing what Andrew suggested I found my clipping was saved after hiding the resource. That's good. While I naturally lost the links from a note file when I hid a resource, they were restored when I restored the resource. Again, good. The contents of the note file were unchanged either way.

This gives reassurance that we could use a temporary resource and preserve at least part of what we created when the license was lost. Depending on how one uses a note file what is left might not be what one wants since all linking to the original content is naturally lost.

The best practice would seem to be to create clipping files and make notes there so the context of the note isn't lost.

Timothy Drawbaugh

Thanks to Mark and Andrew for your replies. Having the opportunity to use and learn from a resource and not being able to save notes and clippings was a big question mark. I may also try exporting my notes and clippings to a text file to save for future reference. Thanks again!