What do you do with your Highlights

Lukas

When reading through a book and you make highlights, what do you do with them.

Jonathan Bradley

I have a general highlight palette that auto-populates my highlighting into a specific notebook. Then, for books that I'm doing a deep dive into for whatever reason, I do a bit more. I'll make a book-specific palette and then two notebooks: One notebook is "Book Name Here Highlights," where the highlights go. The other will be "Book Name Here Notes," where any actual written notes I create in the book are kept.

So, all of my highlights are still there, stored within Logos. I've just begun to contain them, so there is just a little less chaos. I wish I had thought of doing this from the start, or at least sooner than I did.

Hope this helps.

Lukas

@Jonathan Bradley can you please share some of these with me as an example. I know you have the systematic year reading plan. have you made notes on that, that you could share with me to see what you are doing.

Jonathan Bradley

Certainly!

Here is my highlighter palette for the Reformed SyS Theo reading plan.

After making a highlighter palette for a book, in this case, Reformed SyStematic Theology, volumes 1-4, you then right click on it, and you can set any uses of that highlighter palette to go to a specific notebook:

I made a separate notebook for highlights and actual notes because while I might have one or two actual notes per chapter, I might have dozens of highlights. When you have both highlights and notes in the same notebook and you want to scroll through your notes, there are massive gaps between your actual chapter notes because each individual highlight is a separate note. So, I decided recently to separate them.

And here is my notebook that my notes go into…..

Otheriwse, your notebook might look like this chaos:

As you can see, there are only two actual notes, and the rest are highlights. If I could scroll down on that screenshot, that's what it looks like when everything goes to one place.

Jonathan Bradley

I hope that makes sense. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!