Is it possible to link note files in Logos 9?

Colin Cameron

Being able to link a note file into a Sermon Builder file, made me wonder if I can link note files to other note files as well.

Here's my situation:

My weekly texts come from the Narrative Lectionary. I group them into series (3-4-5 weeks at a time) sometimes based on a book, or based on a theme.

The themes that I'm dealing with until the end of the year are: compassion, hope, and holiness.

I have note files for those individual themes.

I then have note files for the individual Sundays as I don't want to grab a note from an upcoming or previous week and put it into the wrong sermon.

It would be great if I could link the individual Sunday's notes into the note file for the theme (or the other way around).

Of course, linking multiple Note files into one Sermon Builder file could meet my needs as well, but I can't seem to do that.

If there is another way of linking/grouping note files, I'm happy to learn.

Philana R. Crouch

Colin Cameron said:

It would be great if I could link the individual Sunday's notes into the note file for the theme (or the other way around).

Colin,

You could save each note in the same notebook. Also, you can tag individual notes and you can facet against those tags. Those are both two ways you can group notes together.

Let me know if this works for you.

Colin Cameron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129164#Comment_1129164

Hi Philana,

I'm not sure how I would save each note in the same notebook.

I have a notebook created by the Basic Bible Study workflow for each Sunday or in the case of non-contiguous readings like an upcoming Sunday's: multiple notebooks (one for each section of the reading--this week it is three non-contiguous readings).

I then have the notebook for the sermon series that spans three weeks.

If I could get the notes from the different workflows into one notebook, I could build a much larger notebook for the whole series, and tag the notes for each day. I guess I could tag the notes on the theme of the series with "Overview" and the other notes with the date of the sermon. 

This seems like an inelegant solution though. For one section of that upcoming Sunday's reading I have 20 notes. Moving 60 notes into a book, and tagging them all with a date would be time consuming. I must be missing something.

Since the workflows can't handle non-contiguous readings, I was hoping that I could link the note files together somehow, so I could take the workflow output, and link it into the Sermon Builder file.

I don't know what "facet" means.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129182#Comment_1129182

Colin Cameron said:

Moving 60 notes into a book, and tagging them all with a date would be time consuming. I must be missing something.

Since the workflows can't handle non-contiguous readings, I was hoping that I could link the note files together somehow,

They don't have to be in the same Notebook to be related. But it means tagging individual Notes with date or whatever. Keep the date tag simple for searching puposes ---> you can Search "Your Documents" using mytag:tag-value.

Colin Cameron said:

I don't know what "facet" means.

The Notes Sidebar shows certain characteristics of  notes e.g. Type, Resource, and Tags are part of this method of filtering notes i.e. they present a 'facet' for browsing.

Colin Cameron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129510#Comment_1129510

Thanks Dave,

This does solve most of the issues I have.

It still doesn't allow for including more than one Notebook into a Sermon Builder file, but using tags will work as a workaround.

Thanks for defining facets for me (I was looking for edges or viewpoints -- like a multi-faceted diamond and just wasn't grasping what was being talked about.)

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129564#Comment_1129564

Colin Cameron said:

It still doesn't allow for including more than one Notebook into a Sermon Builder file, but using tags will work as a workaround.

Others have made a similar complaint. I believe that Faithlife has heard but I don't know the resolution.

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129564#Comment_1129564

Colin...

I have lots of notes that I want to link one after another. In that vein, I put a "Next:" and a "Prev:" into each note I want to link and then since my notes are verse anchored, I just put the verse for "Next:" and the verse for "Prev:" that I want to go to. 

Then I go to verse 1, then click on the verse for Next or Prev and walk through my verse that way. 

It's a work around.. but it works for me.

Colin Cameron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129853#Comment_1129853

Thanks MJ. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one to have the issue.

Not knowing (and I don't need to know) how the system is built, I have no idea how hard (or easy) it would be to link multiple note files to a sermon, however I could see that it could have great potential.

I just created my first sermon today using the new system, and I was really impressed.

Hopefully there will be more improvements as time progresses.

Colin Cameron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129879#Comment_1129879

Thanks xnman

As some of my notes are in workflows, they are often tied to multiple verses (a whole reading on a Sunday). I might be able to do something similar, thanks for the idea.