Fastest way to see top-priority commentary

Hi everyone,

I've created collections for each book of the Bible. I've also prioritized 10-20 commentaries for each book of the Bible using "Prioritize books".

When I am in my preferred Bible, what is the fastest (fewest clicks) way for me to go to the right spot in my #1 prioritized commentary given the verse that I am in?

The following is what I have in my Program Settings. When I double click a word, it takes me to BDAG/HALOT.

Thank you all

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DMB

Interesting question. My guess would be a right-click verse number > Passage guide w/Prioritized sort. For me, that's messy.

My layout isn't quite your specs. My main Bible has my lead commentaries under the MultiBook button. I keep another Bible version below that ... he supports the B-Team commentaries (another MultiBook). Both, a click away.

Your spec would be fast, if you 'series'd your top one per Bible book. But that messes up your commentary series.

Hopefully there's a better solution.

Unrelated but interesting: I didn't know right-clicking a verse, shows my top Bibles. Commentaries would be neat.

GaoLu

Link Set?

Dave Hooton

The following is what I have in my Program Settings. When I double click a word, it takes me to BDAG/HALOT.

The Click Actions refer to the word(s) you are on e.g. lookup the word in a dictionary/lexicon.

The fastest way is to have your bible and commentary in a link set. Beware that commentaries differ in their use of bible milestones, so John 3 can take you to a translation section, a Summary or a Commentary on one or more verses that include John 3.

Morgan

I just prefer having the explorer tab open and linked to a bible.

Mark Barnes (Logos)

The new Insights sidebar is designed for exactly this purpose.

Short of that, I'd add a Commentaries Guide section to your layout and link it to your Bible.

DMB

I thought the challenge here is different prioritized commentaries per Bible book.

Graham Criddle

I thought the challenge here is different prioritized commentaries per Bible book.

So long as a commentary is prioritised as highest for a particular biblical book that is the one that should appear, by default, in the Related books section of the Insights panel

Or am I missing your point?

John Fidel

Another option is to tag each commentary as "Best" and then create a collection and add that to a linked Passage Guide. That is what I do, only I have the top 5 commentaries for each book of the bible tagged and included in that collection. Works great for me. If further instructions are needed on setting this up, let me know.

1Cor10 31

Thank you all for the various suggestions. I am swamped right now with other obligations. I am going to explore all the avenues and come back and tell you what I went with.

Appreciate people taking time to share. This is what makes these Forums great.

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Thank you all.

1Cor10 31

Hi there again!

My 2025 goal is to have no emails in my Inbox when I go to bed (<20 now), so here I am looking at emails I received in response to my query 6 months ago. Thanks again to folks who responded.

@Dave Hooton: I now realize that double clicking to reach a commentary is not possible.

@GaoLu, @John Fidel: Thank you for the suggestion on Passage guide/Commentary guide using Link Set. But I think it is second best compared to Insights bar (thank you, @Mark Barnes (Logos)) as long as you prioritize the commentaries. I tried two different books of the Bible and it does show the prioritized commentary.

Thank you all.