Feature Focus: Summarize

Jason Stone (Logos) · 2025-07-31T17:08:30+00:00

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Wish you could skim a book or Bible chapter in Logos without reading it all? The Summarize feature does just that—offering quick, AI-generated overviews of articles, chapters, or even search results. It’s perfect for previewing content or deciding where to dive deeper.

Tried Summarize yet? Share how it’s changed your study routine, or drop your best tips below!

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Doc B

Well, it's better than Winterize. When I have to winterize, it means cold weather is on the way.

But seriously folks, I almost never use summarize. I find the current research on AI and its effects on the brain to be frightening at best, so just like m-RNA and carbs, I'm trying to avoid it where possible. Brain-death doesn't appeal to me (at least, not yet).

DMB

I summer-ize and winter-ize both. Evaporative cooling.

And I'm a Legacian, so my opine-ification is moot-ish. As much as I think Summarize is a bit of laziness (libraries aren't tremendously colossal), it has been historically useful, digging thru scientific articles (hand-created abstracts). So.

GaoLu

Its a great idea that I never (ok, seldom) use because I don't trust it to think for me and not to miss the stuff I want. But I will try some more. I wish I could hear from folks with experience and confidence reports in its level of completeness and accuracy.

I think it's ok as a sort of bird's eye view if I am not serious about what I am searching for. Grok is better.

Lynden O. Williams

I use it when searching. With a library of nearly 21,000 too many resources to go through. I may select the summary see what it says and then decide if I want to read the actual document.

Think of modern databases that libraries offer. You put in your query and it scans the journals and tell you which one may have articles on your desired text, topic, etc..

Imagine getting the Master Journal Bundle https://www.logos.com/product/396190/master-journal-bundle-102?queryId=81ace402220310e9a48e11db69fca609 with 776 resources (who knows how may articles) and going through each one to find what you are looking for.

I want "Smart Search" for function more like ChatGpt so that I can give a specific query and have it return resources for me to read. Yes I also want it to give me its own summary of those resources (narrowed down to a collection). Same as reading someone's commentary, summary along with their bias.

When you know how to ask the right question, it is amazing what the returns are.

DMB

@Lynden O. Williams

"When you know how to ask the right question, …"

That's a fascinating dependency.

Lynden O. Williams

DMB. I still use commentaries to help explain the biblical text. The difference is ChatGpt data is rather limited, but it does do a good job in summarizing what it finds.

I want to input prompts like this: (Very first time I used Open AI chatbot "Give reasons to show that the book of Daniel was written in the sixth century B.C..

Then I repeated the same question, this time I changed the number to the second century B.C.. Guess what , I got answers for both questions. 😀

MJ. Smith

I have used it only once or twice, to summarize an article on a topic I know little about. It provides me with a sense of the biases of the author which influences my decision to read or not read an article. As such it is very helpful in saving me time.

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1375805#Comment_1375805

I am quite interested in this as I would find it very useful. My take was that summarizing obscured the author's bias. I may need to revisit that.

Steven MacDonald

I have used this feature while scrutinizing a possible book purchase that was generated via AI search so it can be helpful.