Can i have linked Bible without the book name?

In doing notes, I am writing a lot of cross references that are in the same Bible book. Prior to Logos, I would just write chapter and verse, since I knew it was from the same book (3:19 instead of Eph 3:19). Is there a way to set Logos to recognize all references as being in the last mentioned book, or in the same one that the note is anchored to? I'm currently writing a note noting all of the uses of "power words" in Eph, and was thinking how nice it would be to not have to type Eph before each reference, but still have the verses linked in the note. I know I can manually link any text, but that would be even more tedious.

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JT (alabama24)

Is there a way to set Logos to recognize all references as being in the last mentioned book, or in the same one that the note is anchored to?

This works in personal books, but not in notes.

Gregory Lawhorn

If you are on a Mac, you can use a program like Keyboard Maestro and automate this. Keyboard Maestro, if you don't know, is a program that runs a series of commands when you trigger them (I'm sure there are comparable programs for Windows; I just don't know what they would be).

Triggers can be a typed string. What I would do in your case is have Keyboard Maestro triggered by double colons after the reference - "::". That way when you type

3:19::

Keyboard Maestro would

• backspace twice to remove the extra colons,

• select the reference,

• copy it,

• and create a proper link.

The caveat is that if you frequently change books (Ephesians, Colossians, Numbers, Ruth), etc., this wouldn't be worth the effort. But as long as you are using the same book most of the time, it would work very well.

Dave Hooton

I would just write chapter and verse, since I knew it was from the same book (3:19 instead of Eph 3:19). Is there a way to set Logos to recognize all references as being in the last mentioned book, or in the same one that the note is anchored to?

No. You have to:

type 3:19 in the note
select it,
click the link icon in the toolbar above,
type eph2.9
hit Enter key

noting that you save time using this format e.g. 1jn3.4, 2tim3.12