User choice limiting onslaught of information - just passage requested, passage and its parallels, e
MJ. Smith
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When I run a "complete" Passage Guide, I am overwhelmed by the amount of data returned. I refer to it as "being hit by a high-pressure firehose of data." For some sections, e.g. Bible Commentaries and Collections, Logos/Verbum allow me the option to choose a subset of my library to view but on the core Biblical entities - People, Place, Thing, and Event - there are no options. The result is that unless I am doing a study on a particular person, place, thing, or event, I rarely expand these sections to use them. I have to be studying something rarely mentioned in the Scripture for the references to be of reasonable length.
I suggest that guide sections such as these which produce long lists of references add a selection option to the section header similar to the selection of a subset of books. It would have three options:
1. Show all references (the current firehose setting)
2. Show only references to the passage itself and all parallel passages (a new garden hose setting)
3. Show only references to the passage itself (the kitchen faucet setting)
This would allow the user to control the quantity of data received without having to search through the long list of references.
I suggest that guide sections such as these which produce long lists of references add a selection option to the section header similar to the selection of a subset of books. It would have three options:
1. Show all references (the current firehose setting)
2. Show only references to the passage itself and all parallel passages (a new garden hose setting)
3. Show only references to the passage itself (the kitchen faucet setting)
This would allow the user to control the quantity of data received without having to search through the long list of references.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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