37.0 Desktop - Make Documents & Highlighting sort/scroll PERSISTENT

I do a LOT of Bible underlining/highlighting for various reasons (many free templates available for Styles in Faithlife groups "JimDeanStudyStuff").

Each color/style has a meaning. So, I create a DEDICATED NOTEBOOK for each one ... that way Logos automatically saves a "chain" of all places I marked with that style.

To use this, I need to be able to select a word/phrase, then quickly switch to the right Notebook, then quickly apply the appropriate style.

To do this, I set up a layout as shown below ...

The thin right column has 27 Notebooks, nicely sorted ... the wide far right column shows the parallel 27 styles with category names. Conveniently, the line heights of the two panels are about the same, so I can get them to align well.

OK ... that's how it looks when it is set up properly. Now, I click Layouts > "Update Active". Then when I'm done, I close the layout.

The PROBLEM is that the NEXT TIME I open that Layout, the sort order of the Notebooks, and the vertical scroll positions of both right panels has been LOST, and I need to once again sort and scroll to get them to a useful point.

This is what I see when I re-open the Layout ...

Obviously, this is a pain.

PLEASE MAKE THE SORT-ORDER AND SCROLL POSITION of any such panels ... but at least these two ... to be SAVED WITH THE LAYOUT, so they persist the next time it is opened.

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Justin Gatlin

Jim,
I think you are making life way too hard for yourself. If you create a separate palette for each style, you can pick what notebook highlights in that palette will be saved to. Then you do not need to select the notebook.

Just right click the palette name and then select the notebook you want it to be saved to.

If I am following your screenshot, I think what you should actually be using is labels, so you can search your Bible for "label.Wisdom:Principls" but I may not be understanding what you are doing. I made a post about labels here https://community.logos.com/forums/t/225415.aspx

Jim Dean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1321653#Comment_1321653

Thanks Justin, but i didnt explain clearly enough.
all the 27 custom styles are in one pallete.
but I want to save EACH STYLE to its own notebook.
logis doesn’t let you assign a notebook for a given style.

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1321662#Comment_1321662

Thanks Justin, but i didnt explain clearly enough.
all the 27 custom styles are in one pallete.
but I want to save EACH STYLE to its own notebook.
logis doesn’t let you assign a notebook for a given style.

Why not just move each style to its own palette so you can assign it a notebook? The way you are doing it now seems like a violation of the Geneva Conventions to me.

Jim Dean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1321664#Comment_1321664

Thanks everyone all for your suggestions on how to do it differently BUT I have good reasons for doing it the way I do now.

THIS THREAD isn’t really about how I do it.

This thread and request is that the sort order And scroll position of those panes should be saved with the Layout.
The idea applies to any pane.