SUGGESTION: User choice limiting onslaught of information - just passage requested, passage and its

MJ. Smith

When I run a "complete" Passage Guide, I am overwhelmed by the amount of data returned. I refer to it as "being hit by a high-pressure firehose of data." For some sections, e.g. Bible Commentaries and Collections, Logos/Verbum allow me the option to choose a subset of my library to view but on the core Biblical entities - People, Place, Thing, and Event - there are no options. The result is that unless I am doing a study on a particular person, place, thing, or event, I rarely expand these sections to use them. I have to be studying something rarely mentioned in the Scripture for the references to be of reasonable length.

I suggest that guide sections such as these which produce long lists of references add a selection option to the section header similar to the selection of a subset of books. It would have three options:

1. Show all references (the current firehose setting)

2. Show only references to the passage itself and all parallel passages (a new garden hose setting)

3. Show only references to the passage itself (the kitchen faucet setting)

This would allow the user to control the quantity of data received without having to search through the long list of references.

Please vote for User choice limiting onslaught of information - just passage requested, passage and its parallels, everything (as now) | Faithlife If you have a different opinion as to what the selection options should be, please add a note to the request but still vote for some control over the quantity of data.

xnman

MJ. Smith said:

When I run a "complete" Passage Guide, I am overwhelmed by the amount of data returned. I refer to it as "being hit by a high-pressure firehose of data." For some sections, e.g. Bible Commentaries and Collections, Logos/Verbum allow me the option to choose a subset of my library to view but on the core Biblical entities - People, Place, Thing, and Event - there are no options. The result is that unless I am doing a study on a particular person, place, thing, or event, I rarely expand these sections to use them. I have to be studying something rarely mentioned in the Scripture for the references to be of reasonable length.

I suggest that guide sections such as these which produce long lists of references add a selection option to the section header similar to the selection of a subset of books. It would have three options:

1. Show all references (the current firehose setting)

2. Show only references to the passage itself and all parallel passages (a new garden hose setting)

3. Show only references to the passage itself (the kitchen faucet setting)

This would allow the user to control the quantity of data received without having to search through the long list of references.

Please vote for User choice limiting onslaught of information - just passage requested, passage and its parallels, everything (as now) | Faithlife If you have a different opinion as to what the selection options should be, please add a note to the request but still vote for some control over the quantity of data.

MJ....  I agree in general with being able to limit the Passage Guide..... I call it "information overload" as sometimes I spend too much time weeding through all "stuff of appearance" (meaning stuff that appear to fit the conclusion) to find the "good stuff". And I think as you suggest to being able to "selective limit" it... I raise concerns on how the limiting would be done. 

For example...  say I don't want to see things about Catholicism...  I just uncheck it....  

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1256710#Comment_1256710

xnman said:

I raise concerns on how the limiting would be done. 

For example...  say I don't want to see things about Catholicism...  I just uncheck it....  

You lost me ... how does Catholicism relate to the Bible entity sections of the Passage Guide limited by passage, passage & parallels, or unlimited? Please don't use my posts for the random addition of the ACELO churches into the discussion (ACELO = Anglican, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Oriental Orthodox).