Notebook that highlights go to

As I've gotten more familar with Logos features, I have been trying to be more intentional with organization. The past few weeks I've created a notebook for each of my past three sermons. (I know how to view my prior notes and assign them to different notebooks.

While doing some prep today for next week's sermon, which has its own new notebook, I began going through a commentary and highlighting some things. I noticed that the highlights were being assigned to this week's sermon notebook. The new highlights from the commentary were even from the range of scripture that next week's sermon is on (Genesis 18:16-33) as I already created next week's sermon document and created a sermon notebook to go with it.

I thought, perhaps if you have the notebook open it assigns new highlights to it, so I made sure I used the filter to just show notes from the new notebook. (The only reason I have a few highlights in this new notebook is because i manually changed them to be in the new notebook)

Where do you select what notebook highlights are automatically assigned to? The only thing I'm thinking might be happening is that Logos is smart enough to know that this current week's sermon won't happen until Sunday and it is therefore assigning new highlights to this week's sermon notebook. I don't normally work ahead like this, but I'd like it to be more common than not that I'm working a little bit ahead on my sermons.

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Graham Criddle

Where do you select what notebook highlights are automatically assigned to?

You can assign highlights to notebooks at the palette level - this is outlined in https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016517891-Highlighting#Manage

Mike Groop

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1299844#Comment_1299844

thanks for the link.

It doesn't seem to answer my question though. I know how to modify highlights. I just don't know why new highlights I make are automatically added to one notebook as opposed to another notebook, and if I can change the default. Currently it automatically assigns highlights to the second to last notebook I created, a sermon notebook for this Sunday's sermon. Having created a new notebook today for next Sunday's sermon, I figured if it were to default to anything, it would default to the newest created notebook, which is not the case. I can of course keep the notes tool open and modify each new highlight manually as I go, but this seems a cumbersome way to stay organized. My best option, currently seems to be to ignore where new notes are being assigned, and when I'm done for the day going to the notes tool and selecting all of today's notes with the shift key and changing them all at once to the correct notebook.

When select a range of text (in this case a couple sentences in a commentary) that I'd like to highlight, a box pops up, with the basic highlighting options. I click on the 3 dots and then where it says "add note" beneath I can see a list of recent notebooks to choose from. If I select a notebook from that list, it does in fact create a new note (containing the selected text) in that notebook, but then the window instantly closes without highlighting the text and instead leaves a yellow tag where the beginning of the selected text was (which if clicked takes you to note) On the other hand, if I select the text and add a highlight color, the text is then highlighted and a new note is created of that highlight, but in the wrong notebook. How do I choose what notebook highlights are automatically assigned to?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1299847#Comment_1299847

It doesn't seem to answer my question though

Sorry - I was referring to this, showing how, for each palette, you can specify the notebook to be used (including the Active one)

Do you know what this is set to for the palette you are using for highlighting?

Mike Groop

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1299855#Comment_1299855

Hi Graham, looks like what you're doing is that certain highlight types can be assigned to certain notebooks? I could see that being quite helpful. Ive been thinking often times that there's a topics that I'm ruminating on and want to keep track of as I encounter stuff on that topic while doing other things.

One thing that solved the issue seems to be that it was stuck on using a particular notebook, even though I opened another and closed that one. So I quit, reopened Logos, changed the selected notebook, and updated the active layout. When I quit again and reopened it was assigning things to the new selected notebook the way I expected.