User-created links to content within books

David Gayle Woods

My Scenario:

I am studying a passage in preparation for a sermon. I have 15-30 commentaries that have content on this scripture. As I am studying different commentaries I find different sections or paragraphs that I would like to either quote or somehow refer to in my sermon. How do I isolate that material so that I can find it when I write my sermon, but also find it in the future?

If I highlight it (and do so for every other section like this for every sermon), by default it is put in highlighter pens and has an anchor to that one commentary. I find it is easy to "lose" such notes because 1) a search of notes (at least on Logos Mobile) does NOT seem to search text within the anchor, 2) I do not always recall which resource had the text I needed.

My Current Solution:

I copy and paste the content from the resource into notes categorized by types of information: History/Culture/Language, Illustrations, and Theology. For notes created especially for the "History/Culture/Language" notebook, I then anchor it with Bible verses, so that as I continue studying the text, I can easily select the icons to pop up the notes.

My Proposal:

Develop the ability to use an icon (or even a highlighter) to link directly from the scripture text to a selected portion in a book.

scooter

+ from book 1 to book 2 [neither are the Bible}. Here, a verse explanation is X-ref'd with another author's views. So, too, book 2 is ref'd with book 1.

Alan saunders

What I do is create a note with multiple anchors e.g. bible verse and the text in the different commentaries. I can also copy the different commentary paragraphs/sentences to the note so they all come up together. The note can be put in a notebook and/or tagged. You can also insert hyperlinks to other notes if there is related material.

This means that I have anchors in each of the resources that I can hover over or open.

NB.Mick

If I understand your use case correctly, it seems to me that Clippings documents are in Logos for this exact purpose, collecting varoius excerpts from different books in one document, possibly tagging and/or annotating those excerpts.

David Gayle Woods

Clippings are worse than a user-created note.

Searching for copied text in a clipping doesn't find it. For example, I have a clipping on 1 Thessalonians 5 that has words "seasons", "Day of the Lord". Searching for "seasons", "day" and "Lord" do not surface this clipping. The only way to find such text is to copy-paste from the original source into the notes section of the clipping - but then you have the information duplicated - both in the clipping and in your notes on the clipping!

Furthermore, clippings do not allow you to anchor scripture references or to add tags. Notes, in my opinion, are much superior.

Note: When you highlight a section of a resource and create an anchor to a note, searching notes ALSO does not find anything from the highlighted section of the resource in the note. In order to search for such text, you would have to copy/paste from the resource into the note, which is a duplication and seemingly wasted effort.

The link information from the Clipping is also not superior to what you can do with a user-created note either, since Citations include links to section of text copied from the resource.

The solution I believe would be superior is to allow mere links (designated by icons) from, especially, a scripture verse to a section in another resource. That way, when I find an especially helpful commentary note on a verse, I can create a link directly to that section, without later having to go through the entire commenatary's entry on that verse (think NIVAC) or trying to remember which of maybe 30 different commentaries had that entry.

MJ. Smith

@David Gayle Woods

Searching for copied text in a clipping doesn't find it. 

I can't replicate this problem what version of the app and what hardware are you using?