Question on making a collection

I am working on making collections for all of my commentaries based on books of the Bible. Made good progress till I came to John. How can I set that collection to only include the gospel of John, and later have individual collections for 1, 2 & 3 John? I may simply make a collection for those 3 together as nearly all the commentaries cover them together.

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Alan Monroe

Found it in another thread!

If anybody else needs it:

type:commentary AND (title:john OR subject:john) ANDNOT (subject:”1 John” OR subject:”2 John” OR subject:”3 John” OR subject:”John, 1st” OR subject:”John, 2nd” OR subject:”John, 3rd” OR subject:revelation OR subject:”epistles of john”)

I know it's using older commands, but it works!

Frank Hodges

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1228650#Comment_1228650

Hey Alan,
So I know you already found another solution, but I thought I'd share what I do which may apply to all Bible books and any other categories that you may want to make a collection out of.

The easiest thing I have found is tagging all of my Gospel of John books as "bb.John" and 1,2,3 John as "bb.JohnEpistles" and so on. BB stands for "Bible Book" and there's a whole tagging system that explains it. Then I just make collections using "mytag:bb.John" and they all go into the collection.

I can't remember off the top of my head who created it, but it is very good and tagging all the books in your library helps you become more familiar with what you have. I may be mistaken but I think it was David Wolcott that made the spreadsheet with it. It may be worth checking out if you're interested in approching it in a different way. :-)

Also keep in mind that too many collections supposedly slows down Logos searching, or at least I heard that it used to... I could be wrong about that tho.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1228650#Comment_1228650

type:commentary AND (title:john OR subject:john) ANDNOT (subject:”1 John” OR subject:”2 John” OR subject:”3 John” OR subject:”John, 1st” OR subject:”John, 2nd” OR subject:”John, 3rd” OR subject:revelation OR subject:”epistles of john”)

type:commentary subject:n.t.John will do the job as n.t.John precludes "John" that starts with a number. It is also more accurate as it included an extra 3 volumes that also commented on one or more Letters of John!

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1228654#Comment_1228654

Also keep in mind that too many collections supposedly slows down Logos searching, or at least I heard that it used to.

The original rule was inefficient (and inaccurate) but type:commentary subject:n.t.John won't cause a slow down!

Alan Monroe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1228687#Comment_1228687

Thanks, Dave! That one does seem to work better.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

How can I set that collection to only include the gospel of John, and later have individual collections for 1, 2 & 3 John?

Type:Commentary Subj:N.T.Joh

Type:Commentary Subj:1-Joh

Type:Commentary Subj:2-Joh

Type:Commentary Subj:3-Joh

FYI: Joh matches John & Johannes

Keep Smiling [:)]

Doc B

How can I set that collection to only include the gospel of John, and later have individual collections for 1, 2 & 3 John?

Like Frank, I use tags, but I have a cleaner system (at least, to me).

I use the numbering system found in many seminaries et al. I put a CO in front of the number, so John would be CO64. I tag each commentary as I acquire it, then my collection rule is real simple...for example, John would be "mytag:CO64".

Here's the list-

Gen - Mal is 01 - 39

Apocrypha (if you need it) is 40-60

Matt - Rev is 61 - 87

A *lot* more detail can be found here- https://wiki.logos.com/Canonical_Commentary_Collections