L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #214 Search with saved parameters
Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.
This tip is inspired by the forum post: TIP-ish: Tailored Search Panels for Quick Access - Logos Forums
Some users achieve similar functionality through the use of the Favorites tool but this is an elegant solution worth considering.
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!
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