Is there an explanation of this available anywhere? I'm curious how this works.
From the help file
Add an Image to a Note
Use the button from the Notes toolbar to open the media picker window.
Add media from one of three locations:
• Your Media • Faithlife Stock • Unsplash
Your Media
An image must be added to the Add Image windows before it can be inserted into a Note. There are three ways to add your media to Your Media making the image eligible for addition to a note.
• Add images by clicking the Upload button in the Add Image toolbar and finding the image to add.
Static images are currently the only media type that can be added to Notes. • Add an image from the internet by clicking From URL and typing a valid URL to an image on the internet. • An image can be dragged and dropped from the computer’s file system to the open Add Image window.
Once the image is added to (or found in) the Add Image window, select the image and click Insert in the bottom right corner.
Logos Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
Thanks for that, Graham. But I'm actually thinking less about process and more about purpose. What reason is there for adding images to notes? That's intended not as a philosophical question, but rather as a practical one. Okay...a pic has been added to a note. Practically, what's the point? Specifically, who am I helping? Myself? Others? If I am a presenter, how does my image get conveyed?
Practically, what's the point? Specifically, who am I helping? Myself? Others? If I am a presenter, how does my image get conveyed?
I think it probably depends!
For me, I think the main benefit would be to myself. That I include an image in a note to illustrate a point, show a map, display a family tree. And when I come back to a note, that image would add to my understanding.
For someone who teaches, and includes in that process, sharing his / her notes with students the image could benefit the students
If someone uses their notes to present from directly, then having the images there could add value to what is being displayed.
But I'm still probably not really answering your question!
I don't use Logos notes, but do have the same functionality in my software. Images are great for quick analytics. As our pastor is expounding on a verse, I have quick access to all the similar phrasings and author datings, as to how solid the phrasing is. And before folks get devotionally excited, the OT and NT authors were similarly analytic ... unique in a sea of gods at the time (and now).
For someone who teaches, and includes in that process, sharing his / her notes with students the image could benefit the students If someone uses their notes to present from directly, then having the images there could add value to what is being displayed. But I'm still probably not really answering your question!
We're getting there.
Okay, so now I want to know "how" I share the images in my notes. I guess my hang-up has to do with the same problem I've always had with Notes (as opposed to "notes") in Logos since L3. In L3, a Note pop-up could be as large as your screen, but ever since, Notes are "seen" through a keyhole that is a couple of inches square at best. If I want to share my image, how do I share it? Do I have to export it? And if so, WHY?
Ultimately, I guess I'm addressing the design logic of the software. For a long time it's seemed to me that no one knows how to use Logos. Although they've always been called "Notes", in Logos 3 Notes have a much broader and more presentational function, and as a result, they probably could be better described as Attachments. The way I use L3, my Bible is my presentation platform. I don't have to, nor do I want to export OUT of my Bible for the sake of presentation. I want to IMPORT INTO my Bible. There are numerous benefits to this approach, not the least of which is the psychological sense of contextual integrity that is maintained by being in the Bible as opposed to being in a presentation program. If L3 allowed image importing into Notes, as you are reading a verse about the temple, you would merely hover the pointer over the note icon and the image of the temple would pop-up instantly, WHILE STILL BEING IN THE BIBLE, as opposed to being in PowerPoint or Proclaim. Benefits are that it is instantly and fully accessible, there is no need to open anything or even click--it's just there. In L9, all you would see by hovering over a note icon is a couple of steps and maybe the bottom of a column. To see the full image, you would have to click open the note input screen, which is a sloppy and inelegant mess.
In L9, all you would see by hovering over a note icon is a couple of steps and maybe the bottom of a column. To see the full image, you would have to click open the note input screen,
In L9, hovering over the note icon would show you some of the text in the note. And, yes, you need to open the notes tool to see the image.
That is a massive failure of design and utility...Fukushima-like failure.
I don't use Logos notes, but do have the same functionality in my software.
Which software is that?
Thank you. For me, I was wanting to add images as references (sometimes scanned notes) that I can put in for myself. I use Logos for Bible Study. THank you all!
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