What functions of Logos do you use more?
What functions of Logos do you use more? I don't mean books or resources of your library, but actually what I call functions... such as Factbook, Clippings, Passage Lists, Advanced Timeline, etc. I am thinking that out of all the functions of the Logos program, you might only use a very few of the functions.... I would appreciate your answers.... Thanks!
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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xnman said:
What functions of Logos do you use more?
For me - some of the top ones are:
- Search
- Notes / Highlights
- Visual Filters
- Reverse Interlinear functionality - and underlying tagging
- Sermon Builder / Manager
- Passage Guide
- Passage List
- Bible Word Study Guide
- Copy Bible Verses
- Collections
- Information Tool
- Reading Plans
- Context Menu
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I use Notes/Highlights, Clippings, Parallel Passages, and Copy Bible Verses the most.
And I also obviously believe in the Oxford comma. [:D]
Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a van down by the river.
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It depends very much on what project I am working on at the moment so it is actually easier to list what features I NEVER use:
- dark mode
- reading mode/full-screen mode
- community notes
- memorization tool
- self tests
- visual copy
- sentence diagrammer ... I would use but my external choice is SO much better
- Greek and Hebrew keyobards
- drawing mode
- syntax search ... I appreciate it but I don't know the original languages
- morph search document ... I appreciate it but I don't know the original languages
- the counseling guide ... although I do own the resources supporting it
- the theological guide ... I've never warmed to the LST behind it
- the sermon guide ... the restriction to a single passage rather than a single set of reading is offensive
- topics.logos.com ... the failed attempt for us to share web resources restricted to the Logos Controlled Vocabulary
- courses section ... I do use the courses tool
- Faithlife music section ... although I still want a fully supported label-based hymn section
- IgniterMedia.com
- Illustrations section ... now if it were populated with Anthony deMello and Mulla Nasruddin I'd be a huge fan
You can assume that everything else gets some usage, often heavy usage, when I'm on a particular type of project.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Here are the ones I consistently use:
- searches
- passage guide
- bible word study
- reverse interlinear
- text comparison
- topic guide
- visual filters
- cited by
- notes
Bob
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xnman said:
you might only use a very few of the functions
That'd be me:
- CitedBy
- Multiple Book Display (commentaries)
- Various searches
- Highlighting, for keeping my place
- OL interlinears
But Logos is not my primary Bible software.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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My most common are:
- Search
- Library (for finding, organizing, tagging)
- Copy Bible Verses (for preparing worship sheets for my church)
- Highlighting
- Reverse Interlinear
- Passage Guide
- Collections (for searching, and passage guide)
- Context Menu
- Favorites
- Factbook
- Personal Book Builder
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xnman said:
What functions of Logos do you use more? I don't mean books or resources of your library,
I use Library functions probably more than any other i.e. for finding/filtering, changing metadata and prioritizing!
Then
- Search tool
- Clippings
- Information tool
- Collections
- Favorites
- Concordance
- Notes (but not for myself)
- Highlighting (not for myself)
- Passage Lists
- Visual Filter
- Factbook (surprisingly)
- Personal Books
- Text Comparison
- Passage Guide
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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I most frequently use
- Search
- Reverse Interlinear functionality
- Context menu
- Cited by
- Copy Bible Verses
- Passage List
- Favorites
- Layouts
- Personal Books
- Notes
Wolfgang Schneider
(BibelCenter)
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I
: highlight
: notes: write a few
: occasionally look up stuff.
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Doc B said:
I use Notes/Highlights, Clippings, Parallel Passages, and Copy Bible Verses the most.
I probably should have added 'Layouts.' I use a lot of layouts...and save my current place in a task by updating the current layout.
Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a van down by the river.
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My study layouts use the following:
1. Bible Word Study Linked to Bible.
2. Customized Passage Guide that combines some elements of the Exegetical Guide.
3. Cited By
4. Information Pane
5. Linked preferred Lexicon using multi view to include a few others.
6. Reverse Interlinears
7. Searching, all except clause and syntax, included send searches here
8. Tagging - my entire library
9. Collections - especially commentaries used in my custom passage guide
10. Layouts
11. Factbook
12. Custom Topic Guide
13. Bible Browser to find some more complex tagged items
I am sure there are more that I just use instinctively without thinking much about it.
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- Search
- Personal Books
- Notes / Highlights
- Visual Filters
- Reverse Interlinear functionality - and underlying tagging
- Passage Guide
- Exegetical Guide - esp. Word by Word
- Passage List
- Bible Word Study Guide
- Copy Bible Verses
- Collections
- Prioritization
- Context Menu
- Print/Export
- Cited by
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- Sermon builder/ manager
- Notes
- Illustrations
- Word Studies
- Media
- Passage Guide
- Visual Filter
- Visual Copy
- Topic Guide
- Reading Plans
- Highlighter
- Copy Bible Verses
- Reverse Interlinear
- Layouts
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My absolute favorite is scrolling down to:
"This title is included in the following collections"
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scooter said:
I am not associated with Logos.... but..... One of the reasons I started this thread was for me to see and maybe learn how I'm not using Logos... and a 2nd reason was to hopefully have Logos people see how people are using Logos and what they are not using.
I will add my list as follows:
1. Notes
2. Clippings
3. Passage Lists
4. Exegetical Guide
5. Bible Browser
6. Dictionary of Bible Themes
7. Personal books
8. Search
9. Text Comparison
10. Important Passages
Edit: 11. And of course - Sermon Builder and Sermon Manager.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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- Passage Guide
- Reading Plans
- Sermon Builder
- Visual Filters
- Highlighting/Notes
- Cited By
- Morph searches (don’t really use Search much otherwise)
- Multiple Book Display & Link Sets
- Layouts
- Factbook
- Although I don’t need to use them much now, my heavy use of things like Prioritisation*, Tagging, Library Search and Collection rules underpinned things like Passage Guide & Cited By when I first set Logos up and early use of them has left me much better set up going forward. it means that commentaries in Passage Guide, lexicons, Bible Dictionaries and so on all appear in the order I want them to in other tools and the Context Menu.
* I’m English: I can’t bring myself to spell it with a “z”.
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1. Custom Passage Guide
2. Exegetical Guide and Word Study
3. Factbook
4. Sermon Editor but I only copy and paste from Word into the sermon editor to present my outline with preferred Bible from the screen. I really don’t write my sermons there as it sucks and doesn’t have all the capabilities Word has.
5. Cited by Tool
6. Bible Browser
7. And last but not least the Read Out loud feature! It’s amazing when you find the right voice for it 👍
DAL
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