What should Logos X be? A celebration of the 10th anniversary of Logos featuring the polishing and completion of the nine preceding versions i.e.
- The return of the cookbook element in the Search - in addition to not in place of the templates
- The return of the liturgical ribbon tool section including the actual calendar of saints for multiple denominations and full support for multiple lectionaries/ritual books as used by some denomination (e.g. The Season of Creation)
- The return of the grammatical and semantic roles to the context menu and the Factbook.
- The return of a report error function to Factbook
- Parity of Verbum with respect to help links and error reporting links
- Updating all inconsistent, incomplete, and erroneous documentation
- Completion of documentation for the few remaining pieces
- Completing data (or major progress in) for labels esp. sermons, personal letters, outlines
- Addressing inconsistency in the User Interface (there is a forum thread on this)
- Addressing the bugs in the Guides, Workflows, Factbook, tools, and interactives
- Additional work on making Migne available
- Additional work on the milestones for all Church Fathers literature
- Support for n-grams in the Concordance
- Add additional relationships to Bible Sense Lexicon (as in Word Net)
- Provide easy access to all Bible versions from the reference popup - focusing on ease of viewing the translation the text specifies
- A final push for the correct/more granular resource types for library resources
- A standard bracket driven interface that automatically draws sentence diagram in multiple styles (Kellogg-Reed, tree, arc (dependency)
- Allow multiple scripture passages in Workflows
- Expose resource attributes so we can determine what resources are not included in the Guide/Factbook results
- Allow one to erase wearmarks on the scroll bar at the resource level
- Modify prioritization so that priority can be stated by datatype; prioritization may be done by collection; and that the priorities by datatype may be listed
- Make the Prayer List usable by not assuming a prayer is completed (and deleted) when an answer is entered
- Allow a customization of the Sermon Builder/Manager that is oriented towards lessons/Bible study
- Modify the Search to allow the scope of a search (clause, verse, chapter, article) to be specified by user
- Modify the Search to allow clause search elements and Bible search elements to be combined
- Allow user customization of popup element sizes where appropriate e.g. note size
- Restoration of more granular and correct information to the Orthodox/Oriental Orthodox section of the canon comparison
- Major revision of the Lexham Survey of Theology to provide accurate information (see SUGGESTION: An improvement to the Lexham Survey of Theology - Faithlife Forums (logos.com)
- Make good on the long promised hymn feature in Logos by creating a label that users can add (as they can for sermons) to treat hymns and theological and liturgical text not performance art.
- Allow personal letter labels to function like sermon labels and add a resource to the Guide/Factbook section.
- Support better visibility of notes applied to lemmas
- Verify that all citation styles correspond to the most recent style guides
- Add templates to Canvas to support argument mapping, arcing, ...
- Allow images to be imported into Canvas
- Simplify the process for adding metadata/deleting images for images imported via Amber
- Update Information panel for more granularity and for completeness of the data
- Expand the lookup function in the Context Menu to link to the label documentation (ignoring the detailed attributes) - this gets one to the correct document at the very least.
That is my "off the top of my head" list ... I know that users of dark mode, sermons manager/builder, PBB's, Bible Explorer ... will have additional items. Because of the length of the list, I truly believe that a reliable and polished Logos X is the best gift you could give your users. Your only problem is convincing marketing ...
