Back Button that will close resources? Newbie Question

CB
CB Member Posts: 10 ✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I find that I quickly become lost in Logos as I click on links.  It is constantly opening new resources.  I am aware of the history that lets me jump back to a particular spot in a resource, but I haven't found a way to jump back to the exact layout I had earlier without creating a layout at every step.  I've done some searching, and it doesn't seem like there is a back button that allows you to march backwards through all your steps.  Is that correct?  I'm curious how you manage this?  I find I'm constantly clicking on my base layout and starting from scratch.  

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,460 ✭✭✭✭

    That was another early design failure. It's been 15 years now.  Even though the Logos4 design stressed inter-book features across a time dimension, it's 'go-back' was from another era ... Libronix. One book at a time.

    It'd certainly be nice, especially in un-doing an accidental layout pile-up (versus a massive go-back to a saved layout ... the 15 year work-around).

    You're participating in a long tradition.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • CB
    CB Member Posts: 10 ✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1278334#Comment_1278334

    LOL.  I just messed up something I was viewing.....I had no idea how to recover.  I just flipped back here to see if anyone had offered a solution.  It looks like I will be going back to my original layout [:)]

  • Mike Binks
    Mike Binks MVP Posts: 7,459

    CB said:

    I haven't found a way to jump back to the exact layout I had earlier without creating a layout at every step.

    Before going right back to the start I would be investigating the 'snapshots' to see there is anything nearly there.

    tootle pip

    Mike

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,460 ✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1278362#Comment_1278362

    Snapshots would be a good solution, but they only happen when layout-x is changed to layout-y.  The headache is (1) going down a wrong path, and everybody following along. And then (2) the panels are inconsistent on linking (leader/follower), in order to get back.  Ergo re-load a layout.

    I think I do have a snapshot from about 3 weeks ago.  Bad boy!

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,207

    CB said:

    I haven't found a way to jump back to the exact layout I had earlier without creating a layout at every step. 

    Are you using Update Active Layout?

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    This preserves the layout name without "creating" a new (saved) layout.

    So this will create a history of the layout at different dates.

    If you use At startup Open to  "Most recent layout  - Local" in Program Settings, you will have an Application Closed layout when you exit Logos.

    Dave
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