Organizing and Cataloging Sermons

Joel Denney

I may be in a minority here, but am I missing something with notebooks and "organizing" my sermons?

There's no real intuitive way within Logos to do this. It's be nice if, within Sermon Manager, I could create "books" of my sermons that are easily accessible and searchable. I'm not quite connecting the dots on adding sermons to notebooks, and I don't see how this will allow me to have a sermon library.

Essentially, I'm looking for the way the "library" functions within Sermon Manager, and an easy way to catalog sermons from the sermon writing tool. Some things just aren't all that intuitive within Logos, and this is one of those things for me... 🤷‍♂️

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

David Thomas

Joel Denney said:

an easy way to catalog sermons from the sermon writing tool.

Welcome to the Forums!

Each sermon you write is a "document" so one option is to isolate SERMONS within the Documents tab.

You can later search for a string of title of the sermon or title of the series then sort by TYPE

.

Justin Gatlin

I think you are misunderstanding notebooks. The notebook you add to a sermon is for the notes that go with that sermon, so you can organize your thoughts and keep track of ideas as you are writing. It is not supposed to be one book that brings multiple sermons together.

Your sermon library comes from tags. If you add "giving" as a tag to all of your sermons about giving, you can easily find them and search them later. But a sermon about giving might also be about "self-sacrifice," so you can find all of those sermons too. Instead of creating one book for each topic, you can create dynamic libraries on the go. Here is some info that may be helpful: https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747391-Sermon-Builder#addinfo 

For searching your sermons, you actually just use the general search, and click "Docs" on the top toolbar. Then you can select "Your Docs" and replace it with "Sermons" if you want to search sermons specifically, and you can search the full text of all of your sermons, the same as you would any book.