Enable renaming of notebooks in documents

Renaming notebooks is confusing/convoluted (see e.g. this thread: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/185575/1146755.aspx#1146755). Allowing us to rename notebooks by right-clicking them in documents would be much more intuitive. Please consider adding this function. Thanks.

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Dave Hooton

Renaming only Notebooks would be inconsistent e.g. with Collections you have to open the tool (Notes is a tool!), click the Open menu and then right click the collection to rename it. This should be applied to Notebooks in the Notes tool i.e. put the illogical three-dot menu items on a right-click menu.

Michael Prenzler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332340#Comment_1332340

@mailmedav-48 Thanks for your suggestion, Dave. I don't claim to be a Logos power-user or a UI designer, so your suggestion might be the better way to go. My point in posting was to highlight the unnecessary complexity of renaming notebooks at the moment. To explain my use-case: I prepare a sermon every week. To help me in my preparation, I have developed a (notebook) template for my exegesis. I go to Documents, filter on the word "template" and right-click -> duplicate to make a copy of the exegesis. Then, to rename the file, I have to jump through multiple hoops in the Notes tool to make it happen. Given the thread I referenced, I'm not the only one who finds this confusing! Moving the three-dot menu items to the right-click menu might be the better option - I'm not really fussed as long as I can rename in one or two clicks. Right-click -> duplicate, right-click -> rename in Documents seems like an intuitive way to achieve this :-). Let me know if you need more details.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332340#Comment_1332340

@michael-prenzler-30 If you can edit your suggestion, change it to a right-click menu in Notes, else create a new suggestion and cancel this one.

Michael Prenzler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332340#Comment_1332340

@mailmedav-48 Hi Dave, I can't seem to edit the suggestion. Since it still makes sense to me to have renaming in the Documents menu I won't create another suggestion. Feel free to put up yours and we'll see which is more intuitive for more people. At the end of the day, anything simpler will get my vote :-).

John Bunker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332340#Comment_1332340

@michael-prenzler-30 Hey there Michael, I like your idea. Since you are a notes user and prepare weekly sermons as do I, what do you think about the idea of adding subfolders to the notebook? Could you check out my idea "Add tabs to notebooks" and vote for it if you think it is useable? Perhaps you could add some suggestions to it as well. Also, I am new to logos and would like more info on how you use notes if you would be willing to share.

Michael Prenzler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332340#Comment_1332340

@pastorbunker-41 John, apologies for the delay in getting back to you. Happy to share, just been snowed-under (figuratively, it's summer where we are ;-)). I use notebooks to compile all the information related to sermon preparation for a Sunday. Since we generally follow a lectionary the notebooks are named after the given text for the Sunday, but you could equally do this based on a sermon theme. I have a standard "template" for my exegesis (just a note with different headings, prompts & questions to consider) which I copy and rename. I then work through my template, filling out details as needed. Additionally, I create notes in my Bible & commentaries which I store in the same notebook, which means than in the future if I am reading a passage I can immediately see and open my notes/exegesis. It's very basic but works for more. Because of that, I don't think I would benefit with subfolders in a notebook (the notebook never gets so large that I would need subfolders). I hope this is of some use. Please contact me if you require more information. Blessings, Michael

Michael Prenzler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332340#Comment_1332340

@michael-prenzler-30 Sorry, should be "works for me" (not "works for more")...

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https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332340#Comment_1332340

@Dave Hooton Dave, Please go ahead and vote for this. The developer can make it consistent. The idea is what is important. It took me HOURS to find how to do it now. I succeeded ONLY because Mark Smith posted it in a forum.