Notes, Notebooks, Sermons and so on

Jonathan West

Notes used to be so simple. Since they introduced notebooks (Logos7?) the thing's become totally unintuitive it seems. I want to create a set of notes related to a particular study/sermon.

I created a notebook - I know can easily add notes to that notebook from a bible passage (highlight text, add note etc.) but how do I create an unanchored note in the notebook? I looked up doing it from a sermon document but the note icon simply isn't there when I click the info icon.

My user requirement is to gather together questions/observations and thoughts on a Bible passage including elements from other books such as commentaries and dictionaries as I study a passage, so I can work out what it all means before moving on to construct a sermon (the latter part of which I am mote than happy to do outside Logos in a word processor!).

How do people do this - collect a set of notes, references and so on together when studying a particular something? I'm wondering if Logos has become too complex for its own good, for the person who doesn't use it 24x7!!!

David Thomas

How do people do this - collect a set of notes, references and so on together when studying a particular something?

Here is a portion of my weekly layout (there are other commentaries, Original Language tools, etc. but this is the part of the layout that addresses your question.

left panel = Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide & WORKFLOW

center panel = source materials (Bible, I use Canvas to create an Exegetical structure, and Sermon Document)

right panel = notes, clippings and passage analysis

You may notice in my notes tab, I have a notebook that is linked to my workflow for this sermon. All highlights from various resources and interactions with the workflow become notes within the notebook for this sermon.

Robert Kostenbauder

Hi,

I use clippings to gather my information and then create my study in Word. Clippings is much like using file cards when I used to do research papers in school, a long time ago now,  

Doc B

If those other "books such as commentaries and dictionaries" are Logos resources, the better tool to use is the Clippings tool.

Jonathan West

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226681#Comment_1226681

Thanks David. Problem is, I don't see the Notes icon in my sermon info tab (just the other two icons). So I cannot create a notes file linked to my sermon document...

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226789#Comment_1226789

Problem is, I don't see the Notes icon in my sermon info tab (just the other two icons).

That sounds very strange.

Please post a screenshot (use the paperclip icon) showing a sermon document with the info pane open

Jonathan West

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226815#Comment_1226815

David Thomas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226789#Comment_1226789

Thanks David. Problem is, I don't see the Notes icon in my sermon info tab (just the other two icons). So I cannot create a notes file linked to my sermon document

You may notice in my screen shot that the Notes tab is in a separate PANEL (I have 3 Panels: each with multiple tabs) than my Sermon Document. notes,highlights get saved in a notebook. When I want to put something in my Sermon doc, I scroll through the notebook until I find the note, click on the header of the note which opens the original resource what was notated/highlighted. Then I copy/paste from the original resource into my sermon doc.

EDIT: I never noticed the Sermon Notebook icon in the Information Panel [:O] I have always used "notebook" as a bridge between resources and final document rather than part of the document writer!! I see now that there is an icon missing in your Sermon Doc Info Pane

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226905#Comment_1226905

I never use it and didn't know it was there... but the sermon notebook icon is found in the Information page of the sermon (Item 1)..... and the notebook icon is there (item 2).

I would think it strange if you didn't have that also. [8-|]

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226851#Comment_1226851

Thanks Jonathan for posting that screenshot

As per https://www.logos.com/product/197453/sermon-notebook , The Sermon Notebook feature requires Logos 9 Silver Feature Upgrade, the Preaching Suite Feature set or similar.

What base package, feature set, do you have?

David Thomas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226989#Comment_1226989

The Sermon Notebook feature requires Logos 9 Silver Feature Upgrade, the Preaching Suite Feature set

Thanks Graham! I have both of these Feature sets so I don't know when it came into my UI.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1226989#Comment_1226989

What base package, feature set, do you have?

As Graham knows, Faithlife Connect, Verbum Now, and Verbum Cloud could also all supply it.