As more and more of us transition to the iPad as our primary computer, Logos’ functionality on iPad is becoming a serious bottleneck. My aim is not to debate how an iPad compares to a desktop. The reality is a lot of us--and a lot of pastors--are slowly transitioning to the iPad as our primary computer.
Here’s my short wishlist for iPad support:
Keyboard shortcuts—Logos really needs even basic keyboard shortcut. At minimum the following would be nice:
- Cmd+G to enter a passage as on desktop.
- Cmd+L to open the library and select a new book (as on desktop)--should focus on the search entry field so you don’t have to tap the screen to type a book name.
- Cmd+F to run a search.
- Keyboard navigation to navigate open books. Something that lets you move left and right through everything you have open and potentially activate the overview window as well.
Better interlinear support—We really need some kind of basic interlinear. Even a simple inline interlinear would work allowing easy options to search a word or look it up in preferred lexicons. Basically the information available in the desktop interlinear which the ability to quickly search a lemma or open lexicons.
Search improvement
- There really needs to be a search export—I export searches all the time to csv format to do work on passages. However the iPad app has limited search ability and no ability to export a search to work with it.
- We really need an export to Word doc format, pdf, and csv.
- We need the ability to do basic searches offline. Not everyone is online 24 hours a day.
- When a search cannot run offline it should give a message to that effect. The current message just says “no results matched” which is not always (usually) true. It should say the search did not run because Logos is offline.
Copy Bible verses—has been mentioned many times 
Siri Shortcuts--Make as many of these features as possible available to Siri shortcut for serious workflow capability. At minimum, Copy Bible Verses should be available in Siri Shortcuts. It should be possible to open Logos an activate books, guides, etc via shortcuts.
Offline Capability-Retain as much offline capability as possible for opening books, reading books, and doing basic searches. Much of the world doesn’t have full-time high speed wifi and even those who do get on planes or may not always want to be online Of course it would not be easy by any means to duplicate everything the desktop does offline on the iPad, but a lot of basic functionality should work offline on the iPad as it does on the desktop.
Please say this is coming with Logos 9 (or before!)
