How to Export Highlights with Citations?

Here's my situation: I'm working through a book and highlighting sections. Then I go to the notes tool and export the highlights for that book to a doc. In the export, I see the highlighted text but no citations which is unhelpful because then I have no idea where in the book that highlight came from without going back to logos and trying to find the individual highlight and then click on the highlight to load the book in the location where the highlight was made.

Is there any way to export the citation with the highlight? This is easy to do in Kindle and I'm wanting to move more reading over to Logos but if there are no citations with highlights that could be a deal breaker.

Secondly when viewing highlights in the notes tool is there any way to order highlights by their location in the book?

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Dave Hooton

Is there any way to export the citation with the highlight?

This should be possible, but others can state if this will happen soon.

is there any way to order highlights by their location in the book?

In the Filters sidebar, click the appropriate book under Resource.

Samuel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1059031#Comment_1059031

In the Filters sidebar, click the appropriate book under Resource.

Any clue if the default sort order is by the location of the highlight in the book or the order in which the highlighting was done?

Reuben Helmuth

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1059102#Comment_1059102

Any clue if the default sort order is by the location of the highlight in the book or the order in which the highlighting was done?

When a resource is selected in the filters, the default sort order is by the resource order, but you can change it to created/modified if you like.

Kevin A. Purcell

Here's my situation: I'm working through a book and highlighting sections. Then I go to the notes tool and export the highlights for that book to a doc. In the export, I see the highlighted text but no citations which is unhelpful because then I have no idea where in the book that highlight came from without going back to logos and trying to find the individual highlight and then click on the highlight to load the book in the location where the highlight was made.

Is there any way to export the citation with the highlight? This is easy to do in Kindle and I'm wanting to move more reading over to Logos but if there are no citations with highlights that could be a deal breaker.

I'm only guessing, but my guess would be that you attached highlights to the book and not the reference. Could definitely be wrong.

Dave Hooton

Is there any way to export the citation with the highlight?

As an alternative, try an Inline Search for {Highlight *} in a duplicate of the resource. This means you have two tabs/panels for the resource. If you click the passage header in the duplicate, it will open the original resource to that location.

{Highlight *} will find all the highlights, but {Highlight style_name} will find the highlights for that style.

Samuel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1059204#Comment_1059204

I'm only guessing, but my guess would be that you attached highlights to the book and not the reference. Could definitely be wrong.

I'm confused. I'm simply highlighting text in a book. When I look at the highlights in the note tool there is an anchor to the location in the book. However when I export the highlights all I get is the highlighted text. No citation or indication where it came from in the book--that's what seems to be missing unless I\'ve overlooked a setting.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1059291#Comment_1059291

I'm only guessing, but my guess would be that you attached highlights to the book and not the reference. Could definitely be wrong.

I'm confused.

Kevin was wrong! You haven't overlooked anything - see my suggestion above.

Tom Vidal

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1059291#Comment_1059291

I have this same question: how can I get my notes to include the citations along with my note-text (if any) when I export them. This afternoon, I posted this same question as yours in the Faithlife group for the Notes Tool.

If you copy a selected passage, of course, you get the citations when you paste it. But that is not helpful when you are trying to capture all your reading notes in Logos first and then send them to your writing software in a batch to work on the writing project.

Samuel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1062764#Comment_1062764

But that is not helpful when you are trying to capture all your reading notes in Logos first and then send them to your writing software in a batch to work on the writing project.

Agreed. This is a strange omission and hopefully will be fixed in a future release.

Jace Cloud

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1062810#Comment_1062810

I know that this is an older post, but I am having the same problem... Does anyone know if this was addressed in Logos9? The only way that I can get the bibliographic data included is to copy the highlights one-at-a-time. The ability to mass export highlights with bibliographic data would save tremendous amounts of time.

If this feature is still not available, how do we request that this feature be added in the future?

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1138458#Comment_1138458

If this feature is still not available, how do we request that this feature be added in the future?

Go to the L9 feedback site.

Steven Halbert

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1138484#Comment_1138484

I have this same issue. I found this forum but it doesn't look like anyone ever went and added it to the suggestion site. If they did, I couldn't find it; so I added it. Please go and upvote it:

Export Highlight / Note with Citation / Reference | Faithlife Feedback

Also, not sure who gets "notifications" on these forums, but since I replied directly to Dave, please let me know if others receive. If not, I'll "reply" to the initial poster.

Thanks,

--Steven

Jace Cloud

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1151302#Comment_1151302

I got the email notification of your post and also voted for the update. Thank you for doing this! Hoping that we can get this added.

Samuel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1151302#Comment_1151302

Also, not sure who gets "notifications" on these forums, but since I replied directly to Dave, please let me know if others receive. If not, I'll "reply" to the initial poster.

Thanks,

--Steven

Yes I saw your reply

And I continue to hope for this

Steven Halbert

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1151374#Comment_1151374

Awesome! glad this went to the whole string.

Don't forget to up vote the suggestion (just click the up arrow with the number next to the title . . . that's how these changes will happen):

Export Highlight / Note with Citation / Reference | Faithlife Feedback

Thanks,

--Steven

Steven Veach

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1062810#Comment_1062810

Appears as if this has not yet been addressed. I found the best process (at least for me) is opening the book in question, doing an inline search "highlight:*" then going to Export/Print. It only gives 100 pages worth so I have to go through and use the outline to select only parts of the book itself (first 3 or 4 chapters). Export this. Then come back and export another set. (I have a lot of highlighting). But, once I send it to Word, it does provide at least the citation at the bottom of each page. It looks like the page number is not the page number where the citations are found, but the page number of the aggregated highlights in export/print (so it is virtually useless). But, at least there is a citation provided at the bottom. If I need to go back and look in the actual book, a quick search in quotes of a particular section will usually bring up the results I'm looking for.

It's not a perfect solution. But it does work well. I would have liked the option to be able to aggregate just one color or annotation, but this does not seem to pan out. I searched for yellow and they all came up (presumably), but when I searched for Blue, none came up. Same for Green. This is fine, but if it had worked it would have reduced my notetaking process by a few steps.