Notes vs Documents
What is the practical difference between Notes and Documents? Use cases for each in your experience?
I observe that Notes is like a linked word processor; whereas Documents is not.
How do you use them effectively?
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Scott said:
What is the practical difference between Notes and Documents?
Notes is a repository for holding comments / highlights on Logos resources.
But there are a range of Documents:
- Sermons
- Passage Lists
- Canvas
- Clippings
- Reading Plans
- Visual Filters
- etc
Was there a specific document type - maybe Clippings - you were referring to?
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Notes (or more accurately Notebooks) are a subcategory of Documents. Notes are the entries in a Notebook.
"Documents" is just a word for naming these disparate types of things that you can store in Logos.
If you click on the "Documents" button on your toolbar, you'll see all the different documents (with their types) that you have created. Documents is probably a poor choice of term, because it makes people think of word-processing documents.
If you want to learn how to use the different types of documents, you'll need to do some study in the tutorials and/or wiki on these items. Here are some starting points:
To create a new document of any of of these types, click Documents > New > and then select the type:
It's probably best not to get hung up on "Documents" as a thing, but rather learn about how to create Bibliographies, Clippings, Passage Lists, Reading Plans, Visual Filters, etc. Each of these is a very different thing, and for most of them it doesn't make sense to have a word processor to edit them. Notes do, and Sermons do, though.
Here's the wiki Table of Contents for all the document types:
https://wiki.logos.com/Table_of_Contents#Documents
Below are the links to the specific Wiki pages and/or Logos training materials on these document types.
Bibliography:
https://wiki.logos.com/Bibliography
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747291-Bibliography
Canvas:
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018175571-Canvas
Clippings:
https://wiki.logos.com/Clippings
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016525152-Create-Organize-and-Export-Clippings
Morph Query:
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747411-Morph-Query
Passage List:
https://wiki.logos.com/Passage_List
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747311-Passage-List
Prayer List:
https://wiki.logos.com/Prayer_List
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747271-Prayer-List
Reading Plan:
https://wiki.logos.com/Reading_Plan_$28Basics$29
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016525132-Reading-Plans
Sentence Diagram:
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017978492-Sentence-Diagram
Sermon:
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747391-Sermon-Builder
Syntax Search:
https://wiki.logos.com/A_Strategy_for_Syntax_Search
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017808131-Greek-Syntax-Search
Visual Filter:
https://wiki.logos.com/Visual_Filter
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016529972-Visual-Filters
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747431-Create-a-Visual-Filter
Word Find Puzzle:
https://wiki.logos.com/Word_Find_Puzzle
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747351-Word-Find-Puzzle
Word List:
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747331-Word-List
Note that the Logos training for Mobile will be different from the above. I've been assuming you're on a desktop or laptop computer.
Also, one bizarre thing is that creating Notes/Notebooks is done differently than all the other document types, even though your Notebook documents will show up in the Documents list along with all the other document types. Did you notice that "Notebook" is not on the New menu in the Documents tool? Notes have their own Tool for creating them.
Read/watch more about Notes here:
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017978372-Notes-Tool
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018492791-Using-Notebooks
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025819851-Notes-and-Highlights-Videos
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016616512-Notes-FAQ
I hope all of that helps. It's a huge learning curve!
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Well, it's more like I'm like I'm looking for a word processor within Logos. Notes is the closest thing I can find to a word processor. Formatting and building outlines is huge. Documents and Sermon Builder don't seem to have that capability and that won't do. It's all disjoined and messy. The three need to be one word processor with options to define each document as a sermon, note, etc. I've heard some rumblings among Logos users for this centralized word processor.
In the meantime, I'm just trying to figure out how to get going and organized in this disjoined ecosystem.
For example, I want ALL my notes and highlights on a parable in ONE document/note/sermon in a word processor. Notebooks is all disjoined and out of order. Documents ain't it. Sermons is modular and not a word processor as far as I can find. None of it seems to work well for me. I'm trying to use what Logos currently is but it's just in so many different places.
I really hope Logos consolidates it all into an Evernote like word processor with full anchoring and other great features Logos already has. I'm being patient with Logos, so please be patient with me.
With that said, it does seem that Notes is currently my best option, but how to organize it so there aren't multiple notes for the same parable, passage, topic, etc?0 -
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This may be obvious in the tutorials, but I'm not figuring this out:
If I open a new note and I want to name it 'Parable of the XYZ' and anchor it to every instance of that parable in the Gospels not knowing what those verse references are, how would I do that?0 -
I would just do a search for one instance of the parable. Chances are very good the cross references are right there in the opening verse and you could add anchors for each of them.
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Scott said:
This may be obvious in the tutorials, but I'm not figuring this out:
If I open a new note and I want to name it 'Parable of the XYZ' and anchor it to every instance of that parable in the Gospels not knowing what those verse references are, how would I do that?To anchor a note to many reference points... you would have to "add anchor" for each "new anchor" you wanted to anchor the note to.
I would suggest you look at a videos on "Clippings" and "Passage Lists" also. I, like others, use Notes a lot. I have started using Clippings because I can edit them and put some "notes" inside the Clipping and I can have a "Clipping" document that has clippings from many different resources including bible references.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
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