Knowledge Management: Organizing your Notes, Clippings, and Highlights

Fr Devin Roza
Fr Devin Roza MVP Posts: 2,425
edited December 2024 in English Forum

Faithlife recently announced that they are working on moving notes, clippings, and highlights to a centralized database. This is going to be a huge step forward, and should open up a lot of interesting possibilities.

One of those new possibilities is knowledge management. As this is something that would be quite new to Logos and Verbum, I wanted to make a video to illustrate how knowledge management works and why it would be incredibly powerful for anyone who uses Verbum or Logos for preaching, preparing conferences, or writing papers, articles, or books. 

Imagine being able to create, within Logos or Verbum, an outline of the talk, paper, or book you are working on. You have 20 different sources you are going to read through. As you read through them, you find quotes you like, that you may or may not want to use later. Imagine if could simply pull up the outline of your talk or article, and simply check off the section(s) this quote applies to.

After having gone through your research, you pull up your outline for your article, and all the texts your highlighted, together with your notes, are already organized for you according to your outline... across all 20 of the sources you studied. 

This could be just as useful for homily or sermon prep. I made a video demonstrating what this looks like in a program called Citavi, and explaining some of its possible uses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umt7zGkYkmw 

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,108

    Thank you.

    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."

  • Virgil Buttram
    Virgil Buttram Member Posts: 358 ✭✭

    Awesome idea.

  • Beloved Amodeo
    Beloved Amodeo Member Posts: 4,223 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/914995#Comment_914995

    A game changer if implemented [Y]

    Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.

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  • PetahChristian
    PetahChristian Member Posts: 4,635 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/915000#Comment_915000

    Thanks Fr Devin!

    At present, my topical notes in Logos are haphazard collections of highlights. I would certainly use a Logos feature like that to provide a tagged, collapsible hierarchical outline for each topic.

    Thanks to FL for including Carta and a Hebrew audio bible in Logos 9!

  • Mark Smith
    Mark Smith MVP Posts: 11,834

    Thank you, Devin. This would be very helpful.

    Pastor, North Park Baptist Church

    Bridgeport, CT USA

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