In my quest to have a Logos-style passage lookup tool, but anywhere on the computer or internet (not just within the Logos app), I've had some progress.
I had abandoned my quest but the new experimental Logos chrome extension gave me an idea.
If you have the whole Bible divided; one text file per passage, and one file per chapter, you could swing this. If you title the filename as the passage and the content of the file is the text of the passage, there it is. You need to have an installed search program that will index the content of files. I consider a tooltip and a result box the same thing. It's both a block of text.
So I have Listary; with it you hit the global hotkey and get the search omnibox, anytime, anywhere (windows 10):
You make your Bible folder, make folders and files for it, then add the folder to your Listary index and make a quick key for it.
Ok now you hit your omnibox hotkey, type the keyword and search.
The drop down shows the results. Since you would make all passages be their own file, and full chapters are files too, you could use this to start typing a passage and it would show. The problem is there is no preview to actually show the passage.
I created those files to run this test. Windows PowerToys has a preview handler for lots of file types, including .md and .txt. I can't decide between using .txt or .md (for doing this with Obsidian).
The Listary main search is one hotkey away too, but it's bugging out on me, the preview isn't working right now:
But in Dopus it works. The right pane in this pic is the Dopus preview pane. Shows the content of the file.
You could make a selection and copy out passages too.
And now there's the preview in child dialogue boxes too:
You can already tell what the problem is. If you have to open a program to search the Bible, might as well use your Bible software. Ya that's the thing. If the Listary omnibox provided a file preview then this would work (or if I could get the Listary search preview working I guess). Also the time investment issue with creating one file per passage. One file per chapter I could probably do in a couple days but passages, I dunno. I wonder if there is a tool that would do that.
You can't get a right click context menu for everything on windows, with every app (I don't think). That's why I would have to do a global omnibox search thing. I can probably do a tooltip for Dopus, if I make one file per passage. But on windows, instead of tooltips and right click menus, usually we will have to select the passage text then search it manually. The problem with Logos is it takes too long to boot the program. I'm still using a google search if I want to do a quick lookup.
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Also a side note, Obsidian has this nice plugin that you can inject scripture into your notes as a style thing:
It's really nice. You click the arrow to expand or collapse the passage. You can set up hotkeys to collapse/expand all. And the passage itself is a link. You can set it up to "open with Logos" but it opens a web browser and goes to the Logos web version (and you have to login = waste of time), even though Logos is installed locally on the computer. That's no good. So I have it set to open the online Bible thing instead. I would prefer for it to open the local Logos app, but I haven't asked that plugin dev about it.
That is all for now. It's Logos! 😀