Do you have multiple tools that you open in a floating window often?Then you might find this wiki page helpful in creating Floating Tool windows for various tool groups that you use...
see Floating Tool Window wiki page
Nice work Steve. Thanks[Y]
Thank you - it's brilliant! I've realised I can make favourite grfoups of prayer lists and notes, rather than have to wade thro file to open each one, particularly fiddly for prayer lists, of which I have many for many different countries. And I have sets of notes I open from different layouts. They should be much easier to locate from favourites. Maybe this is just normal use of favourites - I'm a lazy Logos user - only bother to learn what I find I need!
Thank Steve!
This solves another problem that I wanted but didn't think L4 would ever do. 'Layered Layouts'. Sometimes I want to ADD to a layout a series of resources but just temporarily (eg my Dead Sea group, Apostolic Fathers group, etc). This works great!!
Do you have multiple tools that you open in a floating window often?
Brilliant
Excellent!!!
Stunning! Steve that is just plain excellent! Nice job.
This is a great idea that I will start using immediately - Thank you!
One quick note: If you have a collection set up with tools you use already, you can drag that whole collection into the favorites folder. This would save the time of having to individually drag each resource into the fav's folder.
We should also support the User Voice suggestion on tabbed layouts.
**Correction** - if you drag the collection to the favorites folder, you cannot open the individual titles. The collections tab opens, but not any of the actual resources. Another reason to support the User Voice idea.
Thanks, Steve! I can start using this today. I have a laptop so using floating windows gives me more room for whatever I am working on. This is great. [Y]
Kaye
i just documented what Logos obviously intended the use of this menu item in favorites to be. Plus some months back i saw someone point out that menu item in a post.
Glad it is useful to you as it is to me.
i just documented what Logos obviously intended the use of this menu item in favorites to be. Plus some months back i saw someone point out that menu item in a post. Glad it is useful to you as it is to me.
Hi, Steve, You are a great blessing to every one of us, I am more than any one who has benefited your talents and diligent works ,thank you.
This has transformed my intercession [:D] I can open my collection of prayer lists in a floating window and open them, tab by tab. When I am praying for different countries, I shall even be able to move the tab of the country I have just prayed for till the end (I think!). SO much less clumsy than fiddling about with the ribbon on the home page, and I can edit them, add prayers etc with no hassle. Thank you so much for introducing me to this miraculous transformation! [:D]
This has transformed my intercession I can open my collection of prayer lists
Nicky,
Thank you for being such a prayer warrior! i would do well to learn from You. It is a blessing to me that i can help you in your service to our Lord.
Excellent, Steve. One suggestion for you. When you create the folder in favorites, you don't need to drag all the resources individually. If you have the resources already open in a panel, you can SHIFT+drag to move all resources from that panel into the favorites in one go.
One suggestion for you. When you create the folder in favorites, you don't need to drag all the resources individually. If you have the resources already open in a panel, you can SHIFT+drag to move all resources from that panel into the favorites in one go.
Thanks, Mark! Great suggestion, i have added it to the wiki page.
Gave it 3 votes on user voice.
This has transformed my intercession I can open my collection of prayer lists Nicky, Thank you for being such a prayer warrior! i would do well to learn from You. It is a blessing to me that i can help you in your service to our Lord.
Thank you for your kind words. Alas, I'm anything but a prayer warrior! But I do find it helps to have lists to remind me of needs. Several times I've unexpectedly met people I'd been praying for, e.g. a young mother whose husband had been murdered after disregarding warnings to stop preaching to those of a different faith. I was thrilled to spend 24 hours with her and her little daughter, for whom I'd also been praying. And of course I pray for many people in our village, albeit not nearly enough. Recently I've started noting down situations I hear on the news, and praying for the people affected. Then there are people like the mother in Pakistan, condemned to death under the blasphemy laws, and the Governor of Punjab, who spoke out boldly against the blasphemy laws and their abuse and was going to support her appeal against the death sentence, and was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards. etc etc. Not far from here, the 13 year old girl, raped and left for dead, and now several months pregnant - and the brute(?s) who did that to her - and the police who tend not to be interested in such cases.... I'm no prayer warrior, but there's need all around us. And prayer lists jog my memory about people and situations I would otherwise forget.
You can take a screenshot of your floating window and save it to a file. Then you can drag the image from windows explorer into the related folder in favorites. That way you can remind yourself of the layout, especially if it was at all complex. Click the link in favorites and it opens your default program (eg, windows photo viewer, on my system).
I've slowly been discovering the benefits of Floating Windows, remembering that they are regarded as part of your Layout when closing & opening L4. Your use of Favorites is especially beneficial, though.
Thanks for adding this Wiki, Steve! 'Tis greatly appreciated!
i found a way to create my own custom Go Box (similar to the one found on the Home page).
See the new wiki page: Creating your own Custom Go Box for instructions on how to perform this.
With the information in a post that i recently added, you can add tools which open to your current Bible location into the favorites. So if you add the tools which you would like to use to the idea that i originally posted in this thread, you can create a custom floating tool window which will open a floating window similar to your own custom Go Box. Thus leaving your primary Logos 4 window undisturbed. i find that i can open this new Go Box quickly from my study and after gleaning the info i want close the floating Go Box window until i need it again.
1. Have my normal Bible open to where i am studying in the main Logos 4 window.
2. In my Favorites window i right click on my floating tool My Go Box. In the drop down menu click on Open all in a floating window.
3. Logos 4 now opens my custom Go Box window without disturbing my main study window. All the books & tools open to where i have my Bible open to in my main window. a. Notice that i have 3 Bibles. b. i have my custom Passage Guide c. i have Text Comparison, Word Tree, and the Morph River
4. i have rearrange my custom Go Box to better let you see what was open and see that they all opened to my current Bible location from my main window.
5. You can see which tools & resources that are located in my custom Go Box folder in my favorites. You could add anything that you wanted to your custom Go Box.
Hope that you enjoy this.
Excellent ideas Steve. Thank you. [Y]
Such creativity[8-|] I like the fact that you showed "HOW" you create the shortcut determines whether it follows your current study or opens to a previous point. [Y][Y] I have already created a couple of my own "Custom GO Boxes" following your examples. Thank you for sharing!
With this bit of information the favorites section could also be a great way to organize husband and wife resources and research separately, yet easily distinguish between them.
Neat info here. Thanks.
