What are your 'Favorite' Layouts?

Frank Sauer

We have a growing number of new users joining us in the Forums - let's post screenshots of our favorite Layouts that we have put together through the years. We may give examples in our own Layouts of what a new user would be looking for, but hasn't yet discovered.

I like keeping my Main Layout with multiple Bibles, a few Commentaries, Passage Guide, Bible Word Study, Power Lookup and Copy Bible Verses all linked via Link Set. At times I add in the Exegetical Guide.

John Fidel

Frank thanks for starting this thread. I hope to learn much reviewing others layouts. I like your layout as it appears very text focused. I had a layout similar, but had some difficulties. A few questions that I ask in case you have a better solution than I came up with.

1. When you click on a bible reference from one of your commentaries does the entire layout change or do you have a Bible with "send hyperlinks here" somewhere not shown? I always have a Bible to send links to so my focus doesn't change.
2. With so many commentaries linked, how do you deal with those that are pericope based and those that are verse based. For example if I am studying Matt 26.26, many of the commentaries are linked to Matt 26.1-30 and will take me to Matt 26.1. Here is where a follow only feature would be helpful.

I gave up linking commentaries and opted to use the links in a custom passage guide instead to avoid everything shifting around if the links is a pericope and I am on a particular verse. I have my commentaries separated by type, similar to what Mark Barnes collections created many years ago. I can then move around the commentary and it does not impact my focus. I also use multi view for bible texts English text in multi view with OL texts that I can turn on and off to save space. Lastly to compare texts I have the information window open on the right and use the translation section. When I need more I open text compare or F7. Not as ideal as your setup with the Bible texts linked.

Here is mine:

Left are custom guides that I use as a work flow. They are set up as BWS, then custom EG, then several custom Passage guides that focus on Background, then Theology and Doctrine, then Application. Finally I have a search window.

Center are two Bibles. The first has multi view with OL. NT ties to the NA28, and OT ties to LHB, LXX and English LXX with multi view that I turn on and off. The second Bible is where all hyperlinks (mostly) populate so my links to the first Bible are not all redirected.

Next I keep linked lexicon with multi view to several favorite lexicons. One is for NT and the other for OT. I link to the one that is applicable to my study. By linking, one click on the Bible text and it populates. The nice thing is that all resources I open from the guides will populate in this pane keeping the Bible and Guides available to me. So commentaries etc will open here.

Lastly is the Information window. Shown below is one click on a bible word showing how it populates across. Then screen shots of my various custom guides.

It did take time to build the custom PGs, but I find I can get to most of my library pretty quickly. I hope this is not too confusing.

DMB

I was going to do maybe one of my layout windows. That's when I noticed Emphasis Bible's handling of VMs got all screwed up, in the late Dec resource update. I wish they'd take Bibles more seriously. Sigh.

I also wish the forum software would stop bouncing around, after a post. Previously reported. I'm exhausted by FL's 'new era'.

Jack Caviness

I have the advantage of 21" & 23" dual displays , so I can spread out. On the main display, I take advantage of the multi resource feature to open several Bibles. At the bottom of the screen, I have several Greek (or Hebrew) lexicons. I then set both panels to link set A. Now, when I click a word in any Bible, the corresponding lexicon entry will open. The highlighted words are the result of the corresponding words option. In the example screenshot, I had to double-click—now sure why.

The other display can be filled with floating windows, MS Word docs, or …

HJ. van der Wal

I am not at my desktop at the moment. In the Web App I usually create a Layout from scratch by opening my default Bible(s), the NET Bible notes, Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek Lexicon and Factbook:

I have connected my smartphone to an external monitor (using Samsung Dex). I can not get Factbook to follow my default Bible, but the Bible Word Study, Exegetical Guide and greek lexicon are all connected in the same link set.

John Fidel

H.J I like your inclusion of Factbook in the layout. I am going to try it now that it has had some improvements.