Homepage & the Use of Logos, A Request To Aid Me In Shepherding My Heart
Opening up Logos is a daily practice for me and many others...The most important aim when I first open the program is to get to God's Word to meet with Him there. My heart is easily distracted, so it is a daily practice of God-enabled discipline to go get from the initial click into the Bible without being distracted...my flesh is out to kill me, and I must be killing it or it will be killing me.
I have to admit the homepage has not helped me in this. The purpose of the homepage is to distract, to help me discover my library, but there are times when I don't want to discover my library but rather just be disciplined in my use of it. There are many users of Libronix/Logos that I know of in my church who have had a hard time using it regularly because they can't have their "quiet time/devotions" in the app due to the tendency of being distracted. It would be in Logos' best interest to have its users in the program every day; this daily use of the app for both intense study and devotional meditation on God's Word marked by prayer is what has made Logos such an integral part of my life...and has translated into thousands upon thousands of dollars of purchases.
So now onto my suggestion, now that the rationale is understood: I need more control over the content of the homepage (or at least the priority of the content on the homepage). I don't want blog posts first. I don't want prepubs first. I don't want interesting excerpts first.
It would serve me well to have the ability to put the things that I want to do first and most first and foremost on the page. This would be reading plan(s) excerpts, devotional book, and hopefully my prayer list. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the homepage layout and content and it has a good use, but the homepage isn't functioning for me as a regular aid to my use of the program, but rather just an irregular "cool" feature. I don't want the homepage done away with, just more control over the content there and the order that that content is placed.
Thanks for considering this request.
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org
Comments
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I've been very critical of this version, but let me put on another hat and defend it here. I read somewhere here that the plan is to let us turn it off and keep it off. They just made it mandatory at first so we would be forced to use and test it. When they have enough results of that testing I believe we will soon see the option to turn it off permanently or until we reenable it anyway. I look forward to that day.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
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But Kevin, turning it off would be a solution like shooting the TV because you didn't like the show that was on rather than changing the channel.
I think that homepage is a great launching point and can serve a multitude of desires/needs with a customizability driven by the spectrum of these desires/needs.Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
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Kevin A. Purcell said:
I've been very critical of this version, but let me put on another hat and defend it here. I read somewhere here that the plan is to let us turn it off and keep it off. They just made it mandatory at first so we would be forced to use and test it. When they have enough results of that testing I believe we will soon see the option to turn it off permanently or until we reenable it anyway. I look forward to that day.
We can switch off the Home Page even now. Logos opens than just empty, without anything, any Reading Plans, lexionary etc. I like Home Page, I would like to have a preferences, like excerpts first, blog articles than... and so on.
Bohuslav
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For myself; I turned off all of the "extras" like prepubs, blog articles, and such...and just left my library books.
I actually like it...many things have caught my eye and caused a study direction that I'd have never thought of without the prodding by the pictures or article excerpts.
Robert Pavich
For help go to the Wiki: http://wiki.logos.com/Table_of_Contents__
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Robert Pavich said:
For myself; I turned off all of the "extras" like prepubs, blog articles, and such...and just left my library books.
I actually like it...many things have caught my eye and caused a study direction that I'd have never thought of without the prodding by the pictures or article excerpts.
Aha, thanks, I did not realize I can switch off the blog articles. Good. I really like the Home Page.
Bohuslav
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I totally agree with Jacob. I really enjoy Logos 4 but in Logos 3, I loved the fact that the devotional books were there on the home page. I loved going through those immediately. Now even if I turn off all the options, there is still so much "stuff" that I don't really care for. I don't want an empty page...I just want to be able to personalize it more.
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