Improvements to clippings

Jim

In revisiting the use of clippings I've noticed several quirks that have reduced its usefulness.

1. If I highlight a text from a Bible and save it to a clipping the clipping does not contain the full reference. It contains the name of the Bible and the chapter the clipping came from but not the book of the Bible it came from. That's very unhandy.
2. Clipping  contain a citation to the original resource but does not contain the page the clipping came from.
3. The export for print-out should contain an option to not print tags or date of the clipping since this takes up a lot of extra space. My reason for printing clippings is to use them as a study guide and I would prefer not to have use so much paper and ink just for that purpose.
4. This has been brought up in another thread but it's worth mentioning again, there should be a way to condense a list of clippings for the purpose of manually sorting accessing and gaining an overview of the clippings file. This could be achieved by simply including the first X number of words from the clipping to give a general idea of its contents.

I still maintain that Logos is schizophrenic when it comes to notes and clippings and am bothered that they have not figured out a way to effectively integrate them in after all these years especially considering the effort put into workflows.

 

Dave Hooton

If I highlight a text from a Bible and save it to a clipping the clipping does not contain the full reference. It contains the name of the Bible and the chapter the clipping came from but not the book of the Bible it came from. That's very unhandy.

It could be improved. But you can edit the Chapter heading to give the full reference (which is available as a Tag).

Clipping  contain a citation to the original resource but does not contain the page the clipping came from.

That depends on the resource, whether page numbers are available, and the Citation format you use. Are you expecting that for a Bible?

The export for print-out should contain an option to not print tags or date of the clipping since this takes up a lot of extra space. My reason for printing clippings is to use them as a study guide and I would prefer not to have use so much paper and ink just for that purpose.

I agree.  If really important, I export to Word and remove extraneous information before printing.

You can make a suggestion at https://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-7. 

This has been brought up in another thread but it's worth mentioning again, there should be a way to condense a list of clippings for the purpose of manually sorting accessing and gaining an overview of the clippings file. This could be achieved by simply including the first X number of words from the clipping to give a general idea of its contents.

Check if that has been added to UserVoice (above link).

I still maintain that Logos is schizophrenic when it comes to notes and clippings and am bothered that they have not figured out a way to effectively integrate them in after all these years especially considering the effort put into workflows.

That is still possible, but Faithlife haven't given a time frame.