Time to right a timeline travesty
The timeline tool in Logos/Verbum has great potential that has never been realized. Expanding the linkages seems to have come to a halt. The customization lacks the granularity needed to be an effective classroom tool. In short, I love the idea, I rarely use the execution.
However, in libronix I could easily make my own timelines which displayed exactly the information I needed. I created many and shared them freely in the usergroup. When Logos 4 was released, which I embraced enthusiastically, our ability to create our own timelines disappeared and our timelines were renamed "hacks" rather than "features". However, the need for these misnamed hacks has never gone away. In fact, Logos appears to have retained the engine that displays them:
I am tired of purchasing separate software to create timelines that are not integrated into Logos/Verbum when I can see that Logos has retained the ability to display timelines with very similar source documents. Please create the ability for users to embed timelines into Logos in a manner similar to the Logos legacy timelines. You can make it dependent on an XML document in a manner similar to personal books being dependent on a .docx document. This would be a gigantic step forward in your support of teaching.
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."