How do you use the Sermon Notebook feature in a Sermon Document?

Tim Murray

I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.  Share how you use it.

MJ. Smith

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MWW

Tim Murray said:

I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.  Share how you use it.

I don’t use it, though I have toyed around with it a few times. To me it seems to be 1/2 done and quirky. Others might have a better experience with it. 

DAL

Tim Murray said:

I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.  Share how you use it.

You mean the sermon editor? I just do my sermon outline in Word then I copy and paste it into the sermon editor so all the verses become hyperlinks.  That way I can present from my screen with the outline on the left and my preferred Bible on the right.  I preach or teach and people can read the verses when I click on them.

DAL

MJ. Smith

Tim Murray said:

I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.

Have you tried these?

Tim Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1309139#Comment_1309139

Sermon Notebook.  See screenshot.

Tim Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1309141#Comment_1309141

MJ. Smith said:

Tim Murray said:

I've never really understood Sermon Notebook.

Have you tried these?

Sounds like the same thing MJ.  I don't see this "Homily" in Logos though.

I think I understand its purpose, I'm just trying to find out if anybody is using it and how.  I haven't found any use for it so maybe I'm missing something.

David Thomas

I create a notebook in Notes for each sermon. all of my clippings, notes, highlights, & Workflow comments are gathered in one place for each sermon.

In my Textual (Expository) Sermons

I connect my Workflow to a Notebook that is identified in my Sermon Doc, then I post bookmarks in my Favorites folder so I can quickly find process notes, clippings, and final product for any text preached.

In my Topical Sermons My Topical Sermon Preparation Workflow supplies comments that go into a specific Notebook, connecting that notebook to the information pane in my Sermon doc provides one place (redundant since it is already in one notebook?). In my Favorites folder I place bookmarks to my clippings, notebook and sermon under the appropriate topic AND also under key texts.

Tim Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1309187#Comment_1309187

David Thomas said:

I create a notebook in Notes for each sermon. all of my clippings, notes, highlights, & Workflow comments are gathered in one place for each sermon.

Thanks David.  I'll have to study this.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1309170#Comment_1309170

Tim Murray said:

I don't see this "Homily" in Logos though.

Logos uses the term "sermon" while Verbum uses the term "homily". For your purposes, the tools are identical.

ds. P.J. Kotze

Tim Murray said:

Share how you use it.

1) I sometimes use Sermon Notebooks as a temporary scratchpad for thoughts that popup while writing a sermon. It’s just like a customizable history of thoughts.

2) I sometimes think of a Sermon Notebook as one huge Thematic index where one notebook serves all Sermons. Each note contain only a thematic heading or sub heading and relevant bible references. This allow for easy outlining.

3) I sometimes collect notes from everywhere to quickly build a message. Then move them back where they belong Or just open different notebooks in the sidebar as I write the message.

4) I sometimes copy my daily journalling of short devotionals from a Sermon document to a notebook. Over time it gets easier to compile larger messages from several short one page messages.

5) I sometimes extract paragraps in a long message to make smaller reusable elements.

6) I sometimes delete all my notebooks to restart my brain and

7) I sometimes just don’t use Notebooks at all.

There are so many creative options available when you start thinking of the Notestool as a Resource for creating messages.