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I am a retired pastor that preaches occasionally. My question is i have a sermon archive that goes back to 1987. I have read that you can import these into sermon manager. How the date thing only goes back to 2018 my archive goes back further than that. Also Many of my sermons are still in notebooks that is paper note books Big Smile so I haven't put them in my computer yet. So anyone have any answers as how to do that biased on the dates that go back that far? Most all were hand written so I didn't actually date them the notebooks were marked with the year i preached them.

Jack Tenney

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xnman

I have some of the same problems as I have many sermons written out with a typewriter. What I have done...(I have a smart phone) is... to download a scanning app to my phone... scan the typewritten sermon into a pdf file...then convert the pdf file to MS Word file (through word)... then upload it to a Logos Sermon. It's a process... but it has worked for me.

There are several scanning apps .... you'll have to search through them and pick out one you like... and it's probably different for apple than android... mine's android. There may even be an app that will scan directly into word.... I have not checked that.

Ronald Quick

Wow - what a collection of sermons you have preached over the years. Although, I don't have a direct answer to your question, I would scan and save your sermons as a pdf so you have a backup copy in the cloud or safe deposit box in case your notebooks get lost or destroyed.

Once you are able to save them in Logos, then there will be a backup on their servers.

Rosie Perera

the date thing only goes back to 2018

Where are you seeing that "the date thing" only goes back to 2018? I am able to enter manually, or select from the calendar control, dates that go back further than 2018.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1233656#Comment_1233656

Where are you seeing that "the date thing" only goes back to 2018?

We can only filter dates subsequent to 2018 in the Sermon Manager

But it doesn't actually preclude us creating sermons earlier than that date.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1233661#Comment_1233661

Where are you seeing that "the date thing" only goes back to 2018?

We can only filter dates subsequent to 2018 in the Sermon Manager

But it doesn't actually preclude us creating sermons earlier than that date.

Ah, I see. Shows you how much I use the Sermon Manger. [D]

I literally just created one sermon entry in it to try it out.

I keep my sermons in Word documents and haven't ever thought to import them into Logos. They are one-offs, not likely useful to me again in the future, often very ragged/incomplete with bullet points in sections. Only one time did I repurpose an old sermon for delivery in a different context.

Owen Shelton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1233663#Comment_1233663

We recently became aware of this shortcoming and are investigating what it would take to change it.