TLDR: The web app uses a new Notes tool, which is separate from Note documents on Logos desktop and mobile apps. Over the next three weeks, we will be migrating all users' notes into the new system, so they will soon be available at app.logos.com.
Is there any risk?
No. Your note documents will not be affected; we are simply copying them into the new system. (They will also continue to copy forward; more on that below.)
What do I need to do?
Nothing; the migration happens all on the backend.
When will my notes be available on the web app?
Your notes will gradually appear at app.logos.com over the next three weeks. We are migrating hundreds of millions of notes in no particular order.
What happens to my old note documents?
Your note documents will continue to exist, and you can still use them normally on Logos desktop and mobile. This is a continuous, one-way migration:
- Any notes you continue to create (or edit) in documents will automatically populate to the Notes tool, but not vice versa.
- You won’t see changes you make in Notes tool showing up in documents, but you will see changes in documents showing up in Notes tool.
- If you edit a migrated note in Notes tool, and then edit it in the original document, it will not re-migrate; the Notes tool will protect the changes you made in the new notes version.
Is there a way to use the new web-style Notes tool on Logos desktop?
Yes! Join the Notes Tool beta testers group on Faithlife. To switch to use the new Notes tool by default, use the command Set Prefer Notes Tool to Yes.
How are my migrated notes organized?
Document Title == Notebook. In the old system, a note must be part of a “document” (a.k.a “note file”); the note can’t exist independently. In the new system, all notes belong to a single database, and can optionally be organized into containing Notebooks. Migrated notes will belong to a Notebook of a same title as the document it came from.
Migrated notes will get all the same rich facets as notes created in the Notes tool (type, resource, Bible book, etc). Since many users organize note documents similarly, many Notebooks may be functionally duplicated by facets.
Anything else I should know?
Collaborated note documents are not being migrated at this time. Collaborated documents are “owned” by a group, and we are only migrating notes owned by individual users for now.
Labels won’t show (or be searchable) in migrated notes. If you have highlighting styles that imply a label, we are storing that data in the Notes tool, but the tool doesn’t know what to do with it yet. Label search extensions will continue to work as normal with your note documents in the search panel.
