Documents for my personal bible study notes?

Paulus Eliasson

I am a new (2 months) user of Logos software, and trying to incorporate my "old" way of studying with this new tool.

One way that I like to study, is that I take a junk of text (let's say John 3), and have a piece of paper where I write down everything that comes to my mind as I read. Questions, insights, experiences, text critical notes, points to make in a possible future sermon etc.

Besides this, I write sermons (for which there is an excellent tool), but also make manuscripts for podcast episodes, write articles for Christian magazines and so on.

Of course I can just open a Word document on my computer, and do this with Logos on another screen. But I'm looking for a way that I can do this thing integrated in the Logos system. I guess this is something that others do as well?

The options I see so far:

1. Sermons. I can make all of these as a sermon. There is a useful text document where I can write whatever i want, and then access it later on.
   But: It mixes my sermons with my non-organized bible study-notes, podcast episodes and magazine articles.
2. Canvas. Good for drawing lines and make visual studies. But not really for most of the things I mentioned above.
3. Bible study document. I thought that I had found my solution in the "Bible study"-document. But that one seems based around questions and blocks. Maybe useful for my unorganized bible study notes, but not anything else.

Have I missed something? Wouldn't it be very easy for Logos to have just a text document option, where one could give it a name, and then tag it as I want (sermon, podcast, devotional, lecture, bible study, article, etc)?

Very thankful for any feedback :) God bless!

Mark Smith

Paulus, welcome to the Logos experience.

If I wanted to do what you are trying to do I'd probably use the Notes feature in Logos, creating a Note for every passage I was studying. One advantage is that you can insert scripture references, copy and paste text, and add any notes you want to add. You can anchor the note to a Bible reference or to a book so you'll always see it in the future.

Moving from that to a document, I'd use a word processor. You can directly export a note file, but the formatting usually needs a lot of work. Otherwise you can copy and paste from the note file to your document.

Another tool I sometimes use is Clippings. You simply copy and paste into the Clippings file. This can also be exported and the formatting issues are not as great as with Note files.

What you don't have (outside of Canvas) is a good way to add notes alongside the text and create arrows and other indicators of relationships using either of these methods.