Panel Linking: Add "Follow Only" Option for Link Set

Philip Pierce
Philip Pierce Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
edited 3:12AM in English Feedback

It would be great to be able to use link sets in the desktop app without having other resources changing the Bible verse while scrolling. It is especially problematic with multiple commentaries since it causes a ripple effect.
The new Logos 10 Mobile App has this feature and would love to also have it on the desktop app too. Thank you!

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  • Henrik Guldager Andersen
    Henrik Guldager Andersen Member Posts: 25 ✭✭✭
    edited 3:11AM

    Option to link books A,B,C,D etc. as lead only or follow only

  • cyber4eyes
    cyber4eyes Member Posts: 8
    Let us set one Bible panel as "focus" no matter what we do in other panels. Scrolling down a bit in a different tab's panel forces the Bible panel to change. Stop that! We need to be able to review info in a different panel without changing the open Bible panel.
  • Jesse Freeman
    Jesse Freeman Member Posts: 5
    edited 3:11AM

    I’ve been using the follow feature, particularly “follow only” with commentaries, and it’s been helpful. One point of frustration, however, is that highlighting also applies to the follow only. As this seems to be predominantly used for bible and commentary, there are times I want to highlight my bible but not my commentary and vice versa, but I don’t want to have to keep disabling then enabling the follow. It would be helpful to either make it where follow only doesn’t highlight both or give an additional option to not highlight along with what it’s linked to.

  • Ali Pope
    Ali Pope Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,821
    edited 3:11AM
    @Jesse Freeman  To confirm, when you highlight a verse in a Bible without having a commentary linked with "Follow only", that highlight does not get applied to the commentary?

    Ali Pope | Logos Desktop and Mobile Program Manager

  • Jesse Freeman
    Jesse Freeman Member Posts: 5
    edited 3:11AM
    Sorry if I wasn't clear. My thought is that it should not highlight the commentary if you have "Follow Only" selected. That feature seems to be advertised predominantly for a commentary along with a Bible, and it's rare that you want to simultaneously highlight a verse and then the large corresponding commentary section on that passage. It makes more sense to highlight both if it's a full link. But "Follow Only" should give you the option of following without sharing highlights. Thanks!
  • Jesse Freeman
    Jesse Freeman Member Posts: 5
    edited 3:11AM
    @Ali Pope  I realized that it’s not the follow feature that shares the highlight. It’s having the Bible and commentary open at the same time either by splitting or in different tabs. If they are both open in the same layout, they share highlights. Not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but it’s frustrating nonetheless. I don’t always want to highlight my commentary and bible the same, but I do want to have them share a screen so that I can read them together. I am using an iPad, but I believe it does the same on mobile.
  • Yes! I loved this feature when I discovered it on mobile. Was disappointed when I tried to do the same on desktop and feature is missing there.
  • Jerry T
    Jerry T Member Posts: 133 ✭✭
    Thank you for submitting this.  I am coming over from Accordance and holding down the command key allows you to you scroll freely through a linked pane without your text following or vice-versa.  So a hotkey or the actual "Follow Only" setting would be great!
  • Philip Pierce
    Philip Pierce Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
    @Jerry Trevino  Thank you for mentioning the shortcut.  When I use Accordance, I was linking and unlinking each pane manually.  That'll save me a lot of time.  I think having both a hotkey and permanent "Follow Only" setting would be nice
  • This would be a great feature to have on the desktop. Please consider adding it.
  • tjebme
    tjebme Member Posts: 191 ✭✭✭
    Agree that adding this as an option would be great! Bringing the option for parity between the mobile app and desktop app for this feature would simplify the user experience for those who are heavy users of the mobile app relative to the desktop app
  • Nathan M Hall
    Nathan M Hall Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    Totally agree. This is closely related to another issue that I think Logos could address in tandem to this one: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/new-auto-mode-to-automatically-link-all-panels
  • PLEASE add this feature in the desktop version. It drives me crazy when I look ahead in a commentary or other non-Bible resource and it jumps my Bible around.
  • Jeffrey Gardner
    Jeffrey Gardner Member Posts: 45 ✭✭
    This along with the auto-linking discussed here: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/new-auto-mode-to-automatically-link-all-panels would be a great addition to desktop app happiness.

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  • Joshua Steele
    Joshua Steele Member Posts: 2
    edited November 2024
    When panels are linked, please add a setting to make one panel "follow only". Ex.: Link a Bible and a commentary, but set the commentary to follow the Bible, but the Bible will not follow the commentary. This way, we can keep our place in the Bible panel even if we navigate around in the commentary panel.
    Thank you!
  • Pretty please -- from The Bereans Against Jumping Bible Syndrome Foundation
  • xnman
    xnman Member Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭
    Great idea! Had something like this in WordSearch. Miss it.

    xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".

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  • Jim Dean
    Jim Dean Member Posts: 312 ✭✭
    ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. "Inconthievable"(sic) that Mobile has this and Desktop doesn't!  Example:  Bible in tab 1 ... forty other tabs with Study Bibles or Complete Commentaries ... the forty should auto-move with tab 1 does, BUT moving in any one of the forty should NOT move any of the others.

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  • Henrik Guldager Andersen
    Henrik Guldager Andersen Member Posts: 25 ✭✭✭
    Yes, please add more tab management options.
  • Rob Dekker
    Rob Dekker Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
    please add this, it works great on the mobile app!
  • Yes please, Follow Only on Desktop.
  • Bryan Mistele
    Bryan Mistele Member Posts: 18 ✭✭
    We absolutely need this!  It works great in the mobile app.  The desktop app REALLY needs this.
  • David
    David Member Posts: 10 ✭✭
    Logos, this is an essential feature. Frankly, it's shocking that it has taken Logos this long to fix this missing feature. It works great in the mobile app.  #Bryan Mistele "The desktop app REALLY NEEDS THIS." Logos please help us! Thank you in advance ツ 
  • Scott Brady
    Scott Brady Member Posts: 8
    edited November 2024
    Can the PC version be set to follow only like on the phone? I don't want my Bible to follow.
  • Ali Pope
    Ali Pope Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,821
    @Scott Brady  The follow-only functionality has not made it to Desktop for now. 

    Ali Pope | Logos Desktop and Mobile Program Manager

  • Yes please! Very necessary. Logos Mobile, Tree, and Accordance all have this. If the Logos desktop is the flagship logos software with “all the features” it needs this essential feature.
  • I strongly agree that this would be a great feature on the desktop version, to have the option to "follow only" -- as is possible on the Android app. I, too, am frustrated when scrolling through a linked commentary. Please include this feature on desktop.
  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    I agree with the previous comments. This is the #1 feature I am looking forward to on desktop.
  • David
    David Member Posts: 10 ✭✭
    Not sure why this one is taking so long. It is a no brainer. Definitely needed! Like Aaron said above: This is the #1 feature I am looking forward to on desktop. 
  • Great idea.  That feature would certainly help.