Prioritize Library (Feature Update)

Jeremy Hulsey

The first thing every Logos user should do and is most critical to searches that produce useful results is to prioritize the library. However, as important as this is, it's a feature that has never been updated. If all you do for Logos 10 is update this feature, it will be worth it.

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What is it that you want the update to accomplish? What does it not do now that you wish it did? What does it need to make it more user friendly?

Michel Pauw

1. Make it more user friendly by adding headings for different resources, so you can quickly see where are my prioritized bibles / commentaries / lexicons / etc.
2. Make it possible to expand the prioritization pane horizontally and allow the user to see more resources, maybe even in columns.

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Agree strongly

Jeremy Hulsey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1329721#Comment_1329721

@Jeff Moore It needs a user-friendly interface most of all. It's going to accomplish the same thing but an improved tool would be a guide that helps you select and organize the correct books for prioritization.

Tyler Bolon

1. Add ability to prioritize collections
2. Add ability to prioritize by type (i.e. not just one huge unmanageable priority list)
3. Add ability to prioritize resources (namely commentaries) by book of the Bible.
4. Add prioroty information to the resources. E.g., if i look at Schreiner's NAC volume on Peter/Jude, i'd like to see i have it prioritized #1 in my commentaries on Jude. Or if i click on a particular lexicon, to know whether i have it prioritized yet or not.

Also, it is near impossible in large libraries to manage priorities. Collections can be managed, but if i get a new commentary set or a mass flux of resources via base package, etc., it would take hours to scroll through the priority list and update.

The tagging and collections abilities are useful. But overall Library management is a bear, especially regarding prioritization.

Justin Walker

The ability to sort and prioritize based on resource type would be extremely helpful as the list of prioritized resources grows.

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https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1329624#Comment_1329624

@Michel Pauw  Yes I agree with the above suggestions

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Was REALLY hoping for this in Logos 10. Hopefully it will make it someday.

Josiah Young

Oops, realized this request already exists with a different name: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/prioritize-library-feature-update and https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/prioritize-resources-by-type

Josiah Young

I agree it'd be nice to have separate lists for each type of resource. Then for commentaries, it would be nice to prioritize by set and by book of the Bible. I generally know which sets I prefer, but sometimes I want to override that for a particular book of the Bible. This can be done already, but it would be nice to have a dedicated, organized UI.

Donovan R. Palmer

I concur. My prioritization list is very long and therefore is unwieldy.  We need a UI which tames the complexity of a long list. Currently, I have blank personal books that I have created to create sections. I have done this for years and it would be nice to move beyond this practice. Having a sectional separator programmed into the software would be very useful.  

I suspect with the way resources are tagged by default the software could even lend towards helping you group certain types of resources , rather than doing it manually.  Software suggesting groups of resources to be prioritized , leaving the last bit to you.  

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https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1329635#Comment_1329635

@Tyler Bolon  1.) and 3.)Collections are not ordered, and how will you manage them with Commentaries by Book? Do you really want a list of 330 volumes (5 volumes for each of 66 books)?
4.) Hopefully, you also want to know about the Peter books, which can be prioritized separately (or not at all).
2.) One should prioritize by Type as a minimum (to avoid confusion). But you might want to prioritize amongst different types e.g. Bible Notes and Study Bibles can be mixed with Bible Commentaries, Dictionaries can be mixed with Bible Concordances and Encyclopedias. Then you need to prioritize by language e.g. for Bibles and Lexicons.

You don't have to prioritize every Type, which automation should take care of.

Anderson Abreu

There is the option of dragging a collection/series of books from the Library to a specific place in the prioritization, but when I want to prioritize just one book in a series of biblical commentaries, I have to click on “Prioritize this book”, it will appear at the bottom of the list of a hundred books that I have prioritized, and I will have to drag it upwards through a hundred books until I reach the place where I want the book to be prioritized. This needs to be improved to make it easier for us. It's terribly bad the way it works today!