How do you manage your study and reading projects?
I find myself doing a number of studies and reading a variety of books at the same time. I want to keep track of my study activities. I am thinking about creating a study journal in the Notes tool. What are you doing to keep track of your study and reading projects? What do you suggest?
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Well, don't copy me! As books arrive, they get classed, as to great reference, or need to read.
Then, as I'm pursuing a subject, I gather the appropriate need-to-reads, and read them. Not tremendously complicated. But I tend to buy, forward planning, so it works. Quite often Logos quickly runs out of appropriate choices (subject), so Kindle steps in.
So, no suggestions. I used to do mindmaps, to map out the progress. But that became mindless. Better to just read.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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At this time, I am reading a book on Isaiah's End-Time Vision, only with the Bible. I still have a long way to go before I finish.
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I create notes and clippings files with the book's title and keep them in a similarly named folder in favorites. I have a checkbox list of books to read in Google Keep which records what I have read and what I want to read.
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I use favorites to keep track of where to pick up and notes for rabbit holes to explore and, most importantly, each project has a layout which I update regularly.
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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The lack of a proper shelving system is one of the great disadvantages of Logos and they most likely will never be able to solve it. Keeping track of what's really in your library is difficult with more than 2,000 titles. I mostly use the search options in Books, or visit Order History.
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I read + highlight. I write a modest # of notes.
LST: Lexham Survey of Theology. I attach a note to, say, Election. In this note I type the author, book, page #s + a brief summary. This same note does for all subsequent authors on Election. Authors' names are bolded……Now Election is a section title. What about Barth? He goes in a note I make using the LST authors' initials, as seen below the title page…..In the book, I put '! LST' + a note saying where in LST I wrote it up…………I use Logos's abilities very minimally, so this is my solution.
I cross-reference books using symbol 'ob' for 'other book.' Each book's page gets a note [why the x-ref.] + the symbol. Ex: Author 2 says Author 1 is wrong. Here I 'ob' them both…………Again, probably not best practise.
My 'next' books I keep across the top bar of the rig.
I am reading 3 books now. I switch to enliven me. I have an extra book for when I feel tired; it is simpler to read.
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There's a really neat feature in the current beta that helps to address this problem. Logos scans your library for resources that are relevant to a current Bible passage that you are reading or reading about and shows you those resources on the New Tab page.
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I use layouts.
I have a layout for each current or ongoing project, and I update them regularly. In this category, I have a VBS layout, and a Sunday School layout. I also have older layouts that are still helpful sometimes, so I don't retire them, such as layouts for classes I taught when homeschooling, or past Sunday School curriculum layouts.
Then, I have various research layouts, one layout for each project, titled appropriately.
I also have a reading layout, where I (currently) have 7 books open with their reading plans, a highlighting tab, and a notes tab. These are the books I rotate between reading right now. Other books that I've started reading, but don't want to attack right now, each have their own separate layout.
I organize the layouts I use regularly in bookmark folders (I think this is is what they're called?) on the main toolbar.
Layouts I use almost daily I save directly on the main toolbar so that I can access them with one click.
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Thank you everyone. I appreciate your input. I have used variations your suggestions from time to time. Mostly I have used layouts, favorites and notes. Your suggestions have helped me to fine tune my system. I want to be able to look back to see when I read or studied a certain resource and see a brief summary of my notes regarding it. Your suggestions will help me to do that. Thank you so much.
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I created a suggestion to formalize the concept of Projects in Logos if anyone is interested in upvoting:
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"How do you manage your study and reading projects?"
… poorly."The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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