Tip: Don't forget about labels

Justin Gatlin

Custom labels are probably the best kept secret in Logos. You can turbocharger your highlighting and make your software much more powerful. Right now, I am categorizing the book of Proverbs based on the fruit of the Spirit with labels.

I created a custom highlighting style with labeling and two attributes: positive (which is a boolean true/false depending on whether the Proverb is a positive statement of what to do or a negative statement of what not to do) and fruit (which is a list: love;joy;peace;patience;kindness;goodness;faithfulness;gentleness;self-control). Whenever I highlight a proverb, it prompts me to select the right fruit from the list and then to mark whether it is positive or negative. Once I have done that, I can search for a certain attribute (label.FruitOfSpirit:fruit:kindness), an intersection with Logos's included tagging (label.FruitOfSpirit:positive:true AND proverb:form:"Synthetic Parallel") or anything else my imagination can come up with. In this example, I made a visual filter to color code them and to mark the positive ones with angle brackets >> <<. But the sky is the limit. 

Here is my notebook (I am still very early in the process): https://flshare.net/m46na7 

Here is my visual filter: https://flshare.net/o67ip2 

Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to share highlighting styles, but here is the setup:

If you have never used them before, give it a shot!

GregW

Thank you for taking the time to post this Justin - you are taking highlighting to a whole different level there, and. I’ll certainly apply that in my own study. 

Thank you!

Antony Brennan

Once you understand how to customise your own palettes the variety of applications goes way beyond just highlighting a passage.  

Justin Gatlin

I made a little video illustrating this, for people who learn better from an example: https://youtu.be/NcvDLZj2fi8 

Christian Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1316864#Comment_1316864

The video went way beyond illustration. It was nice to complement your tips above. Thank you again. Justin needs to be a forum MVP. 

Antony Brennan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1316864#Comment_1316864

Justin Gatlin said:

I made a little video illustrating this, for people who learn better from an example: https://youtu.be/NcvDLZj2fi8 

Very useful and practical video thanks

Dave Hooton

Justin Gatlin said:

Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to share highlighting styles, but here is the setup:

You can share a Highlighting Palette via https://documents.logos.com/

Ken F Hill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1316883#Comment_1316883

Christian Alexander said:

The video went way beyond illustration. It was nice to complement your tips above. Thank you again. Justin needs to be a forum MVP. 

[Y] to all points.

Brandon

Hello! I have been trying to implement labels into my life with all of my free time in Logos for the past 1 month or so. I'm frustrated.

Goals:

• Use labels, Logos Custom Vocabulary (LCV) and personal
• Organization is hard. Don't invent a taxonomy when professionals have already done so and I am going to use it anyway
• Search labels and find hits from both my personal labels and from LCV

Example:

I came across Using Labels – Logos Help Center, but was unable to get it to work with both my labels and the LCV Dataset. Part of my problem is that I expected my notes to receive labels that I could find later, but those labels are only apparently associated with the anchors to which they refer.
I know the following example is contrived and technically incorrect since John (son of Zebedee) is not who John was referring to in John 1.  I'm using it as an example to demonstrate what I'm trying to do in my experiment. I'm trying to augment some verses in John 1 to refer to person:"John (son of Zebedee)" so I can search for both a LCV Dataset label and one of my own and they both show up and work together.
Here's what I have:

I have a highlight on John 1:6 with a note and a label MyLabel with Person: John (son of Zebedee). Now, again, I know this is not correct.  It's really referring to person:"John the Baptist," but that's what I'm going for.  Maybe I want to tag for some silly reason all of John's writing with this tag.
When I search only John 1 for both persons, I only get my personal labels applied, not John the Baptist, too.

label:(person:"John (son of Zebedee)" OR person:"John the Baptist")

But when I search without the label prefix, it shows the LCV Dataset labels just fine:person:"John the Baptist"

label:(person:"John the Baptist")

I think the documentation for label searching only mentioned that you have to prefix your search with label: when searching for your labels, not that adding label: would limit the search entirely to personal labels.
Also, searching for personal labels was really slow considering it was nailed down to only John 1 and the open bibles.
How can I get a homogenous search for both my labels and the LCV labels?
Thank you for your time!

Justin Gatlin

Logos does not categorize its own tagging under the labels prefix. Why not just do

label:person:"John (son of Zebedee)" OR person:"John the Baptist"