How To Use Clippings
What do you use clippings for? I have used notes mostly but I think there may be applications where I can use clippings efficiently. Basically I am trying to figure out when to use clippings and when to use notes. What is your strategy?
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You must be young. Those of us old enough to remember going to the University library, copying pages from journals and books, and them clipping the important information and taping/pasting them on a note card, can all appreciate the Clippings tool. [:)]
The Clippings tool is for gathering research information from your books, putting it into one place (like the file box I carried around like a purse for two years while doing my dissertation), with the added bonus of being taggable and searchable. It even adds the critical bibliographic info to the back of the note card, so you don't have to.
Personally, I love the Clippings tool as it does easily for me what was hard (at least, time-consuming) in the past.
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I use notes for my own thoughts on a subject or passage but I use clippings for other people's thoughts.
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Matt Hamrick said:
I use notes for my own thoughts on a subject or passage but I use clippings for other people's thoughts.
I would like to be able to put clippings into a notebook (i.e., I would like to see clippings and notes in the same notebook. I know I could sort of do this with tags, but I like to make notebooks for particular projects, such as preparing a sermon or class.
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Michael Kinch said:
What do you use clippings for? I have used notes mostly but I think there may be applications where I can use clippings efficiently. Basically I am trying to figure out when to use clippings and when to use notes. What is your strategy?
I use them with Bible Study groups, whether the study be on a book of the bible or a topic. A clipping(s) expresses the main theme and then my Notes guide the study together with popup links to other resources. For an extensive study of a bible book I may have one clippings document for each chapter.
When necessary, a clippings document can be Exported to Word and reformatted for public distribution.
I do not use the Notes tool.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Christopher Esget said:
I would like to be able to put clippings into a notebook (i.e., I would like to see clippings and notes in the same notebook. I know I could sort of do this with tags, but I like to make notebooks for particular projects, such as preparing a sermon or class.
Adding a clippings document to a Notebook would be interesting as it is not tied to a passage. You can add a clippings document as a link (L4) to a Note, though.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Dave Hooton said:Christopher Esget said:
I would like to be able to put clippings into a notebook (i.e., I would like to see clippings and notes in the same notebook. I know I could sort of do this with tags, but I like to make notebooks for particular projects, such as preparing a sermon or class.
Adding a clippings document to a Notebook would be interesting as it is not tied to a passage. You can add a clippings document as a link (L4) to a Note, though.
I just figured out something that should have been obvious to me. When I select some text in a book, there's an option to "add a note." If I specify the notebook that I want, then that text shows up in the "anchor" section of the note. It is functionally the same as what I said I wanted above. I just need to play around with the software more. I am so happy to figure this out! [:D]
Pastor, Immanuel Evangelical-Lutheran Church (LCMS), Alexandria, VA
Vice President, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (East-Southeast Region)
Author of (Dis)ordered: Lies about Human Nature and the Truth That Sets Us Free
Personal website: Esgetology
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Good day Dave is this possible from the mobile of web app also, to add the link in note to a clipping.
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Doc B said:
You must be young. Those of us old enough to remember going to the University library, copying pages from journals and books, and them clipping the important information and taping/pasting them on a note card, can all appreciate the Clippings tool.
The Clippings tool is for gathering research information from your books, putting it into one place (like the file box I carried around like a purse for two years while doing my dissertation), with the added bonus of being taggable and searchable. It even adds the critical bibliographic info to the back of the note card, so you don't have to.
Personally, I love the Clippings tool as it does easily for me what was hard (at least, time-consuming) in the past.
Thanks Doc, yes I am young, at least biblically speaking. I am only 70. A long ways to go until I outlive Methusalah. Thank you for your help.
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Matt Hamrick said:
I use notes for my own thoughts on a subject or passage but I use clippings for other people's thoughts.
Thanks Matt. This is where I am getting to now. I have used only notes but some of them are so long that it is hard to find what I am looking for quickly. I agree a better technique is to gather details in clippings and then summarize them in a note.
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Thanks everyone for your comments. They are very helpful.
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I use it as others have above, but also for quotations. I have a Clippings document called “Quotations” and whenever I come across a quotation that expresses and idea really well or cleverly, I capture it to that document. I find it easier to come back to this way than if I just highlight it.
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GregW said:
I use it as others have above, but also for quotations. I have a Clippings document called “Quotations” and whenever I come across a quotation that expresses and idea really well or cleverly, I capture it to that document. I find it easier to come back to this way than if I just highlight it.
Awesome, that is a great idea Greg. I hadn't thought of using it in that way.
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Clippings rock! I wished we could export them to ReadWise in the same way we can with the Kindle.
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Use Clippings to mimic Lexham Resource Commentary’s summary of authors. This is when you keep clippings from several resources for a single topic to write an overview note in notebook. When exporting clippings to a Bibliograhy they drop the clipping and only keep the citation and note.
Drop this bibliography in a note below your personal note to give an overview of sources used for further study.
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How do you use clippings when reading a book that has chapters. Do you create one file and make a clipping per chapter and then copy and paste what you took from that chapter and add it to ghat chapter’s clipping, or do you just clip everything. So at the end of a chapter you will have then 1 large clipping or 10 for example smaller clippings. Would love to hear how others arrange their clippings. And also how do people make the clipping in one note at the end of the day.
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Lukas said:
How do you use clippings when reading a book that has chapters. Do you create one file and make a clipping per chapter and then copy and paste what you took from that chapter and add it to ghat chapter’s clipping,
You could make a Note for every chapter by clipping each chapter, but don't let chapter divisions dictate how you clip the book (surely you are not going to copy the whole book?).
If you want easy access to each chapter, then make a clipping document for each chapter.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Dave thank you, I will try your method. It would be great if we could have a folder function. is there a way to export the clipping document into one printable note or document.
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