Update the Logos Web App!

New Features in Notes

It has been a while since we have shipped a lot of changes. I am pleased to give an update on the progress we have made toward the new notes experience. I hope that you are pleased with the progress.

What’s new:

Sidebar (left panel)

Added new facets: Type, Resource, and Language

Type: Notes and highlights
Resource: ESV, Word Biblical Commentary, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Christ and Culture Revisited, etc.
Language: Headwords from Greek or Hebrew lexicons

Updated facet order
Added hamburger menu to open/collapse sidebar

Sidebar can also be collapsed by dragging the list view to the left

Listview (center panel)

Redesigned listview (i.e. we moved the editor to its own panel)
Redesigned note cards

Added blue selection indicator around selected note
Anchors are more apparent

Added note count to breadcrumb bar

Note Editor NEW (right panel)

Added ability to open the editor from selecting an existing note or creating a new note
Added an ‘X’ button to collapse the note editor
Added kebab menu

Added delete button

Added ability to make a highlight a note (Select a highlight in the list view and then add text in the editor)
Added full quotes/references

Other Improvements to Notes

Panels are resizable
Added “New Note” button
Added new note drop-down menu

New note
Create a note on [reference, or selected text]
Highlight [reference, or selected text]

Default font size changed to 15px
Added ability to edit a note from the context menu
Made Notes a multi-instance panel
Fixed mismatched timestamps of "created" and "modified" facets
Fixed facet titles
Backend support is in progress to migrate notes from the old notes system to the new (i.e. sync with desktop and mobile)

Other News:

Fixed scaling bug with media player controls
Font size preferences save with last interacted resource panel
Fixed chapter character order in Hebrew Bibles
Created courses.faithlife.com and redirected courses.logos.com

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Comments

PetahChristian

Thanks for the update, Jeromy!

I had tried out the "Access my course" button on the store's product pages, but it either seems to bring me to the home page (cards) or Bible + Commentary view.

Is that the correct intent, or should it open the courses tool to the correct plan?

Grateful for all the progress being made, and looking forward to these improvements coming to desktop and mobile platforms!

Jeromy Blomquist (Logos)

Petah,

The correct behavior would send you to the course tool with your available courses on the top. It should automatically default to this, but if you have changed your layout Faithlife Courses will remember. There may also be some additional things we need to work out when directing from logos.com.

Thank you for reporting!

-Jeromy

Randy W. Sims

Thanks for the update! Great stuff!!

What triggers the "Language" facet? It's not visible and creating selection highlights does not cause the Language facet to show and there is no option to anchor a note to the headword in the right-click menu.

Creating a note without note text displays a small blank popup. Maybe should popup something like <<Empty note>>.

Under "Resource" facet. Abbreviated titles need a popup with full title.

Popup for numbers next to facet that show "N current/N Total" do not seem to be calculating correctly.

Facet list is getting long enough now to make a filter box desirable.

Will Dates always be show me everything from x til now? Or will there be other ranges? Show me what I wrote that is older than 1 year. Show me what I wrote last Jun-Jul. Don't know how desirable that would be; just throwing it out there. (Mainly because I was wondering about bulk operations.) Select certain facets, then select a subset of those notes to bulk add a tag, for example.

Changing layout to a different number of columns and then resizing the three sections of the note window goes wonky.

Jeromy Blomquist (Logos)

Thanks for the feedback Randy!

Most of the things you pointed out we are aware of and have planned in the future (like tooltips for elipsized facets, facet search box, date labels, etc). There are still some polish needed, like the Langauge facet, somehow that got dropped when the update was shipped.

We are continuing to push forward!

-Jeromy

Kevin A. Purcell

I haven't even bothered looking at notes on the web app since they don't sync with the others. So I have a question.

I know I can close the left most column (you're calling it "facets" strange name BTW) with the menu that looks like 3 vertical lines above it (you called it hamburger menu which is common name in mobile). However, the middle column. Will I be able to close or resize that. It's huge and is there I guess just to show me notes I have. But It takes up so much space that I'd like to dedicate to my notes while I'm editing them.

Also, will notes created in this Notes system be migrated to the new syncing version when it ships sometime in 2028? <g>

Graham Criddle

However, the middle column. Will I be able to close or resize that

You can resize the middle column by dragging the right edge (you can also drag the column separator to the right of the "facets"