save time on extended searches

Larry Craig · 2025-07-07T02:27:13+00:00

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Larry Craig

many of my searches I don't finish going through all the resources at one time. Sometimes not even the next day.

I would like some way to mark up my search results, so I don't go over the same ground twice.

I would like a way to say, nothing here, done, come back again, important, or something like that.

These marks would only show up in this particular search.

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Michael Ransom

@Larry Craig: how about saving the search results as a passage list, and then adding headings as you suggested: "Nothing Here", "Completed", "Review Again", etc? You could then drag each search result under the correct heading.

You could name the passage list with the search argument so you could repeat the search if needed.

Mike

Larry Craig

@ MIchael Ransom these wouldn't be passages but books. I have hundreds of commentaries. I am not going to remember which ones I looked at the next day. or the next week. Monograph searches. AI searches. Tons of resources to look at. If I come back later, I will be opening up things I already looked at.

Michael Ransom

@Larry Craig: now I see the challenge. Logos doesn't give you a way to annotate the status of what you have / have not reviewed in a Books search results list. As you noted, you can't save the results to a passage list. I looked at the Print/Export menu, but that doesn't allow you to export the results as a list.

How about a Clippings document? You could drag a short section from each result into the Clipping, make some notes, and then tag it in Clippings with your review status - Completed, Review Again, etc. Then you could do a mytag:"Completed" or mytag:"Review Again" docs search to compile all the results for each review category. I tried this process and it seemed to work.

If you are working with multiple large searches at the same time, you could keep them separate with yet another "project title" tag. You are right - this gets complex…

Mike

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373532#Comment_1373532

"Tons of resources to look at" is making a rod for your back. You should consider refining the Search to minimize results with "Nothing Here" e.g. search your top commentaries first, then a few other sets so that you don't look at resources with little value to you unless you think it absolutely necessary.

Don't use the ALL Smart Search and consider rephrasing it i.e. KISS (an acronym). Exclude or restrict Bibles as you will get repeat results. Also remember that results are not ordered by book (see REMARKS below).

I don't think it feasible to mark up the actual search results as they are not meant to be saved…

SUGGESTION

Create a Notebook for your Search query.
The first note should document the Query via a link from Copy Location in the Panel menu.
- add a Tag if necessary e.g. Query
select a result from the resource and Add a Note to the Notebook (from Context menu)
- add a suitable Tag (be careful with case as Review and review are different)
repeat above for next result…

REMARKS

After a short while i wondered if it was sensible to record every result, even with a carefully crafted query:

Bibles return duplicate results
a quick review can determine the utility of a result
when I repeated a Smart Search as a Precise "You have heard that it was said", I was dismayed to get 461 results in 197 resources, but I now know all the results in a given resource.
- so the task would be more manageable if I returned a note for the first result only i.e. 197 notes vs. 461!
the Notebook makes it easy to determine how far you got with recording results, and you can re-run the query if necessary noting that Precise search results are reproducible.

Larry Craig

@ Michael Ransom

A separate document would be tedious. I have 3 monitors, so I could have one document open to refer to, but then I lose the use of that monitor. Trying to do this on one monitor would be a nightmare. At least to me

The best way would be something in the search itself where each result maybe has 4 blank stars that can be highlighted, with each star representing something like I mentioned

Larry Craig

@ Dave Hooton

Thank you. I can see my wish is just a far-fetched dream. I do believe that Logos can do it if they believe in it.

MJ. Smith

Something like this has been a long-term request under the guise of "work list". OR IF there were a working print/export function, one could use export to copy the results to a note and mark them off appropriately. I wish it were not a far-fetched dream.

Larry Craig

@ MJ. Smith

If Logos does get behind the idea, I hope they find a way to mark up the search results and not introduce another document. Like I said to someone else here, I have 3 monitors. If I only had one and tried to go back and forth, that would be crazy.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373552#Comment_1373552

I stated "I wondered if it was sensible to record every result" because "a quick review can determine the utility of a result". At some point you will decide to postpone this activity, so you could Note the last result you reviewed with a suitable Tag and resume from that point at a later time e.g. you Note several results, skip noting many other results (rather than recording a "Nothing" tag) but tag "Last" against the last result you reviewed. When you resume, you can re-run the query, look at results you tagged with "Review" and then start recording from the "Last" result.

DMB

I have that functionality in my own Bible software (a user field per search result). But the primary purpose is sub-searches (instead of complex search args).

Larry Craig

@Dave Hooton Honestly, I read your response at least three times and I have no idea what you are talking about.

That's fine. Logos doesn't have it, and the workarounds I am seeing, I don't see myself doing.

but thank you again. You have always been a big help

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373625#Comment_1373625

I don't see myself doing that kind of recording, but I was assuming that you will record, say, 460 results with "Nothing" against maybe 250, "Review" against 50 and "OK" against the remaining 160. I was suggesting you don't record "Nothing" results, but the results you do record in a session enable you to pick up where you left off when you resume. This will work for search results sorted by Book.

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