Allow adding notes and highlights in footnotes

Please allow us to take notes and highlight in footnote text. Footnotes are some of the most important text in resources, and we should be able to do everything to footnote text that we can do to body text.

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Phil Gons (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/187018/1084891.aspx#1084891

SineNomine

Please let us make clippings out of them too!

Phil Gons (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1327874#Comment_1327874

@SineNomine, we'll probably solve this by merging Clippings into Notes as a new type of note.

David Taylor, Jr.

Yes please. This has driven me crazy for years.

unknown

This is the one area where Kindle is unfortunately superior. Please enable us to highlight footnotes while reading in the mobile app!

Rick Enterline

is there some way to use the Highlighter tool or Take a Note tool WITHIN a particularly juicy and helpful footnote? If there is no such option, then I would like to suggest that this would be a tremendously useful feature to add.

NB.Mick

A very much needed feature! (This used to be one or more very popular uservoice suggestions, e.g. https://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-6/suggestions/822227-provide-the-ability-to-mark-up-footnotes with 121 votes)

unknown

I would like to further propose this. It is necessary to add notes to footnotes and be able to highlight them, even if they appear in a different document (as ancient document collections and apparatuses do). Please make this possible.

Rosie Perera

The time when this always bugs me is when I report a typo in a footnote. I always like to highlight the typos I've reported with a special "typo" highlighting style so I can track which ones have been fixed, but I can't do this in footnotes, so I have to resort to highlighting the footnote reference number in the base resource. Not idea, because if it's a long footnote it might be hard to visually find the typo again to check if it's been fixed.

unknown

Footnotes are vital - sometimes even more vital than the main text. They need to support as much functionality as possible!

Harry Hahne

Yes. I often want to highlight part of a footnote. Many academic books have very extensive discussions in footnotes. My workaround is to copy the footnote and make a note in Logos with the text of the footnote and anchor it to the body of the resource. Very kludgy and time-wasting.

Loretta "Ko Ko" Stevens

I don't particularly use this feature but anything that would streamline the process is welcomed. I appreciate what you have done with Notes but sometimes they are everywhere and too many to which they can be grouped to better use.

Charles Cherry

What is the status of this? I am using the mobile app a lot more and the lack of copy/paste in the footnotes is really frustrating.

Daniel McCoy

This is essential!

Kenneth Noh

I can't seem to highlight footnotes in the mac version 9.8.00008. Currently I am running Big Sur 11.6.

unknown

Yes, this feature is very much needed.

unknown

Yes.

David Taylor, Jr.

@Phil Gons (Faithlife) I again today find myself in desperate need of this functionality.

Tom Vidal

Yes, please. And, please add this to clippings. Or as @Phil Gons (Faithlife) suggested to @SineNomine , a merged clippings/notes tool would also be fine. (The notes tool is so powerful, expanding it to have a category of "clippings" (along with "notes" and "highlights") notes would be welcome to me, so long as there were some dedicate features of clippings. Those tools seem to be in need of consolidation.

unknown

I agree

unknown

This is the main reason I cannot use Logos as a serious reading and research tool. It’s a pain to read on my iPad if I cannot highlight all the nuggets I find in the footnotes. This has put me off buying all the books for a project directly in Logos. Now I buy none.

unknown

Yes please!!

unknown

Allow me to make the additions in my system, but don't force everyone else to know about them

George Battey

Yes, I too would like to vote for highlighting to be a feature of footnotes.

David Wolcott

@Phil Gons (Faithlife) , I'm bumping this post. LLS:BECKLICONATHIRD is a great example, where I can't highlight footnotes. I can search them, thankfully, but can't highlight or even see them outside of clicking on each number.

George Battey

Absolutely!!! It is very frustrating to NOT have this ability. I have to highlight the word before the footnote number and attach a note saying, "See footnote." This calls my attention to noticing a footnote which I cannot highlight.

Larry Craig

yes, I have wanted to do that many times.

Adam Messer

In the reading view, it would be nice to be able to highlight text in the footnotes.

unknown

Need this! highlights, Clipping, copy/paste too!

Jim Dean

Also, option to highlight or change color of the superscript number or letter.

Ian Kirk

Just my bump to agree!

unknown

Yes, please add footnote highlighting.

unknown

Yes, the inability to highlight footnotes gets under my skin pretty much every week. I end up highlighting the number in the text as a workaround but this does not translate well to Notes.

Simon

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1327880#Comment_1327880

@David Taylor Jr Agreed!!!

Simon

This is an important and necessary addition to LOGOS.

Anderson Abreu

It's a much-needed improvement.

David Taylor, Jr.

There has been no movement on this even though it is one of the highly upvoted items in the feedback. Is there a reason this is still in the "needs opinion" category?

hjsmithjr50

Yes, I also want this feature.

Joseph Bayly

I suppose since I cannot figure out how to do this, it still isn’t possible?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1347576#Comment_1347576

Correct. The underlying architecture can't support it at this time. When this is changed, I suspect we will see many related enhancements.

Chris Lane

I received a notification that the status of this was recently changed, but I cannot find the new status of this request. Would someone kindly educate me as to where the status of this request can be seen? TIA

William Pankey

I would like to be able to highlight text and add notes to the footnotes. That would be wonderful.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1351342#Comment_1351342

one place:

Larry Craig

Logos now has a page view where it shows footnotes at the bottom of the page.

I wanted to highlight a footnote and I can't. I guess that means I can't copy and paste either.

Bummer.

I wish I could.

thank you

Daniel A. Peterson

@Larry Craig I have found that if I hover over the footnote number in the main text, clicking on the pop up will make it persist while I cut and paste the text into a note. This has the added advantage of making the text searchable in the Notes tool.

Larry Craig

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1363623#Comment_1363623

I see that works, but Logos exists to save us time. A lot of books have a lot of footnotes, and this needs to be speeded up.

but thank you

Doug Wesney

I'm bumping this topic because I searched…this has been out here for 5 years, and I know (though can't find) where I was in a monster thread asking for this very feature. Would you please update and advise? How might we advocate getting this feature prioritized for an upcoming release? 😉 @Phil Gons (Logos)

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1372473#Comment_1372473

This requires a massive restructuring of the fundamental structure of books in Logos … or a difficult to maintain kludge. At some point Logos will have to rewrite the application to match the contemporary technology but until that happens, we have to accept that Logos understands the problem and can't afford to fix it.

Doug Wesney

As a Product Owner in a Fortune 200 Company, I understand that. Thanks for replying, @MJ. Smith…!