Clippings from external resources

Ben Manring

The notecard model for clippings is a really excellent and helpful paradigm, but there is a shortcoming in the implementation that makes the clippings tool less useful than it could be. Clippings can only be added to a document from resources within Logos. When I'm doing research, maybe 50% of the information I locate is found in hard copy resources outside of Logos. It would be very helpful if clippings could be created manually to contain information from outside Logos, just like an index card system. Right now, I have to put that information in a separate place, and keep track of the linkage between it and my Logos clippings document. It seems like all that would be required is for Logos to provide a template into which the external clipping information could be typed.

Ben Manring

Additionally, it would be helpful to be able to organize clippings, within a given clippings document, by providing a feature to group clippings under customizable headings, and to hide the items under the heading as if it were a folder, or perhaps better, allow the clippings within a given clippings document to be filtered and displayed selectively by their tags.

Unknown

This would be a great feature. I agree with the external source need.

Dr. S. Fredrick Roberts

Would love to be able to type into clippings doc and copy and paste from outside of Logos. The clippings doc is a great resource for storing illustrations and quotes, but there is no way to add these from the external sources.

Brooks Eckelman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1333218#Comment_1333218

@Ben Manring , It would be better if we could not only tag the clipping but also add the clipping to a specific note folder. That way we have the notes that we are taking along with the clipping for the subject we might be researching.

Jeffrey Gardner

I just added a similar request for the Notes Tool before I found this one.  Here is the request:

https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/enhance-the-add-link-function-in-the-notes-tool-to-allow-other-targets

Xelian

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1333218#Comment_1333218

@Brooks Eckelman  I agree this would be great, but perhaps at the moment you may consider using the favourites tool to organize your clippings. Especially since you can add direct links to any external Microsoft document or website into favourites, making it even more versatile of an organizational system than notebooks could be.

Xelian

As a seminary student, I think allowing such external integration is what would take Logos to a whole new level of integration for academic studies. Considering the fact that any sort of academic research is bound to cite information that will lie outside of any given library (namely Logos's), it would be absolutely game changing for all scholastic work on Logos if external citations could occur. Currently, note taking platforms like Obsidian (or some even use AirTable) are used for organizing research or class notes. Think about it, how do the book writing and article publishing class of scholars organize their research in an accessible way? Many of them organize their research into categories such as seen in the screenshot below. Creating a searchable data base which allows them to organize a folder of "clippings" by Author, or title, and it records the page number as well as being able to attach images or videos. Being able to refine searches among these clippings would be incredibly powerful, and would allow Logos to become the platform not only for sermon building, but thesis and dissertation sized research projects. In my opinion, this is the most important request I have for Logos. 

Xelian

Something like simply being able to manually insert all the information into a clipping would make it possible to import research from outside of Logos 

Tom Vidal

There are several other ideas on this topic that should be merged here: https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/clippings-ability-to-add-material-from-outside-sources; https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/allow-clippings-from-outside-sources; and https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/clippings

Cody Harlow

I agree 100%! I was just wanting to add some information from an A.W. Pink article and discovered that this wasn't integrated. I was honestly surprised it wasn't a feature.