what is the purpose of - unify anchors and notes

I tried this feature (v9) on a small notebook to see what it does. I had 8 notes each with on anchor. 5 of the anchors point to the same resource but different places in the text. When I selected all the notes and selected the "unify anchor" option, all the notes now contain 8 anchors each. What is the point of this feature and in what context would you use it? Thanks... HT

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Graham Criddle

What is the point of this feature and in what context would you use it?

As far as I can remember I had not come across this feature until you menitoned it just now!

I can speculate on some possible uses - if, for example, I had made a number of notes on the same event as told in different Gospels I could unify the anchors so that each note pointed was linked to each parallel account.

But I can't really see many situations where I might use it.

Others may have some much more useful ideas.

HT Morgan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1172369#Comment_1172369

I did some playing around with this in my seminary studies. I read a lot of resources and wanted to group my notes by resource and tags. Here's what I tried. Say I'm reading Book1 and make anchor notes for topics T1 T2, T3. T1 has 2 notes S1, S2 . T2 has S3, S4, S5 and T3 has S6, S7. My list of notes by date show T1, S1, S2, T2, S3, S4, S5, T3, S6, S7. I selected all T1, S1, S2, applied a "unity anchor". T2, S3, S4, S5, applied a "unity anchor". T3, S6, S7 and applied a "unity anchor". Now when I select any of these notes individually I see all the anchors tied together for each topic. Filtering the book and selecting the "full view" I can read all my notes from this book and each topic's notes.

Hope this makes sense... HT

Raymond

I use Unify Anchors to combine all of my highlights from a particular resource. I usually unify all of the anchors from each chapter of a resource. This allows me to export the highlights into a text document for multiple uses. It also drastically reduces the amount of highlight "notes" that I have. After unifying the highlight notes, I delete all but one of the notes.