TIP-ish: Tailored Search Panels for Quick Access
My main complaint thru the years, about Logos Search, isn't the obtuse search syntax. Rather it's the limited results presentation. I compare it to pre-1998 XLS (Microsoft). Recently FL intro'd grouping by various library tags .... and mucked it up by limited or mystery sorts. Good work.
So! My solution is just to include a group of Search panels in my standard layout (copy below):
- A search of dictionaries (encyclopedias in Logos) by heading (want major articles)
- A search of recent journal articles (surface text; no footnotes)
- A general search of articles in books (headings/large-text)
- A general search of surface text in books (no footnotes)
- And a general free-for-all search (to also be used by right-click searches)
These are just my frequent ones. Other people, it'd be different. But it saves a LOT of time. Quickly pick the right panel, type in the syntax and quickly see what I have.
If I were Faithlife (and I'm not), I'd offer saved tailored searches stackable (meaning a single search, but applied to different resource/text definitions). Kind of like search layouts!
