Outsourcing Clippings

toughski

Please allow me to say, that out of all paid features of Logos
(including L4) Sermon Add In had the most value for me. Thank you,
Logos! It was a product that was easy to use and at the same time very
powerful. 

Well, for the last 2 years I did not (could not) use
it because of arrival of L4. Before anybody starts the worn-out line
"but you can use L3 alongside L4...), let me point out the need to carry
over thousands of entries to L4 (and L5 and L6...) and my hesitancy to
redo much work associated with tagging, etc. There has been no
assurances from LOGOS that ALL our data will be converted or otherwise
preserved.

So, I chose the "wait and see" approach. It has been 2 years.  Apparently, the issue according to Bob Pritchett who posted the following in May:

Bob Pritchett said:

SermonFile is a harder problem, because we don't like the way we used
to do it. People wanted to put too many too different documents into
that system...

I admit, I would love to clip images, diagrams, charts
to save them as illustrations or parts of sermons, etc, but for the
time being I would be happy simply with text.  So, why not "open"
Clippings, so a user could create a blank clipping and paste ANY TEXT
from anywhere, which could then be tagged, notes added, it would be
automatically dated, etc.

<rant> I think 2 years to re-create a
feature that was already working in L3 is too LONG! Yes the new PB is
cutting edge, but it is not even fully functional in many languages, other
than English, all because of the "cloud." I think you are making things too hard
and forgetting the KISS principle. You abandon one failed Microsoft
platform (Internet Explorer) and flock to another (Microsoft Word for PB
for example). You want to add a web element for Sermon AddIn, which in return adds more complexity and more time spent on creating "infrastructure."

What if you provided some functionality at the beginning, by simply starting with text (which would satisfy most of your customers) and then added additional support for other things</rant>

I love what you have done with L4, but I'll be honest, it has been the MOST frustrating program in my life (even considering all of Microsoft OSs to date).

Brother Mark

Vlad, I'm not sure you'll get many supportive responses, but I do agree with many of your points.  Stranding user data in a legacy system is, pardon my Greek, ηλίθιος.... well, its short sighted at least.