Why 'Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery' Is So Good
I'd bet newer Logos owners haven't run into 'FSD', or at least not explored it. After 15 years, it's still a hidden favorite.
I'm speaking from ignorance, but the Home page 'Excerpts' seems 'basic' .... and stale ... it keeps using the same books and book types. The 'From Your Library' is fine for looking at book covers and publisher blurbs. Meh.
But FSD sort of hits the spot! I'm not sure how they coded it, but it seems more than random 'spin-the-bottle' in my library. Today, I discovered in the Masorah Parva and Notes, it discusses both manuscripts and lemmas. Who knew!
For simple use just type in FSD in the command box. I put mine in a short-cut to open full page (and not mess up my layout).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Note that you can also use FSD with a collection name, like: fsd in My Collection
...which is great with a collection of journals, or a collection just containing your favorite Bible...
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Ha! I was going to say the same thing because of what you said a few years ago in this thread.
https://community.logos.com/forums/t/173726.aspx?PageIndex=6
I agree. It's one of my favorite things to do when I am not doing my favorite things to do... :P
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Andrew Batishko said:
Note that you can also use FSD with a collection name, like: fsd in My Collection
...which is great with a collection of journals, or a collection just containing your favorite Bible...
Oh wow! This can really be good,
Thanks, Andrew.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Andrew Batishko said:
Note that you can also use FSD with a collection name, like: fsd in My Collection
That's cool! I didn't know about that. Now I might actually use FSD.
The problem is you can't just type fsd in My Collection and hit Enter, as it will default to selecting the first item in the dropdown, which is NOT what you want. I like to use the command box only for things I can type Enter immediately after and have it just work. This combination of typing and waiting for a dropdown to populate and looking for the right command and clicking on it is too awkward. Please do something about it for this variation of the FSD command!
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Rosie Perera said:
The problem is you can't just type fsd in My Collection and hit Enter, as it will default to selecting the first item in the dropdown, which is NOT what you want. I like to use the command box only for things I can type Enter immediately after and have it just work.
Sounds like you might benefit from dragging the "Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery in Personal Books" item to your shortcuts or favorites from easy access.
Also note that after you select the option once, then if you type the exact same thing again (fsd in Personal Books) it should put the thing you selected last time at the top. There's probably a limit to how many of the recent commands it memorizes, but depending on how often you use this, it might be useful.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Andrew Batishko said:
Sounds like you might benefit from dragging the "Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery in Personal Books" item to your shortcuts or favorites from easy access.
Also note that after you select the option once, then if you type the exact same thing again (fsd in Personal Books) it should put the thing you selected last time at the top. There's probably a limit to how many of the recent commands it memorizes, but depending on how often you use this, it might be useful.
But I might like to pick a random collection of mine each time I do this. I wouldn't want to have shortcuts for dozens of them. How hard is it to guess what a user really means when they type in something that matches an internal Logos command and put that at the top of the menu?
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I've 'always' wondered why a command would be submitted to Factbook as a default, because 5 earlier were Factbook'd. I'd have filtered.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I did not know about FSD at first. I did some digging into it and it looks like a fun methodology to find stuff. I will likely never use it because I stay too busy as it is. My spare time is chasing rabbits. Thanks to all who help on the forum.
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Seems that "FSD" doesn't work in other languages, e.g. my german Verbum?
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NichtnurBibellleser said:
Seems that "FSD" doesn't work in other languages, e.g. my german Verbum?
Use one of these:
- Zufällige Entdeckung erleichtern
- Zufällige Entdeckung
- ZEe
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Christian Alexander said:
I did not know about FSD at first. I did some digging into it and it looks like a fun methodology to find stuff. I will likely never use it because I stay too busy as it is. My spare time is chasing rabbits. Thanks to all who help on the forum.
Hey Christian, how many rabbits have you bagged? Them there Words are full of them [;)]
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Quite a few Michael.
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I never knew about it. I wonder if that's the algorithm that's used to populate the "Excerpts" and "From your Library" on the Home Screen.
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KevinV said:
I never knew about it. I wonder if that's the algorithm that's used to populate the "Excerpts" and "From your Library" on the Home Screen.
"Excerpts" operates of a hand curated list of excerpts that hasn't been updated in a long long time.
"From your library" is just picking a random resource minus a couple of resource types (Manuals, etc).
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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