I hate auto-note insert with highlight !!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the worst feature Logos has ever introduced. I highlight all sorts of stuff, but I dont need to note inserted in my active note file to tell me what i highlighted. It totally clutters up my note files. PLEASE REMOVE THIS, or make it invisible behind the scenes so it doesn't appear in my notes files

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DominicM

TBH - I like it, but I would like it to stay, so maybe we could have a setting in "program settings" to filter them off to a hidden file for those like yourself who dont want to know about them, while for those of us who do, the active note file will continue to be populated.

tom

I too like this. I have said over and over and over agin that there are too many subsystem in L4 (notes, clippings, highlights, etc....), and that they all need to be rolled into one system.

The way the UI is setup for this is another story. Then again, I have a lot of issues when it comes to the UI & L4.

DominicM

I have found, if you make a note file I have called it "HiLiteOnly", just clicking on the tab is enough to tell the program to send the "offending" highlighter notes to it, I know its not what you want but may suffice as a stop gap/work around to avoid "poluting your notefile", you then just have to click on your main note file when you want to genuinely add to it.

EDIT: It will also make cleaning a resouce of highlights only rather than accidently deleting notes easier, as you can just delete the hilite notefile.. the more I think about it the more I like it.

Wyn Laidig

Another problem is that it auto-inserts the note for the highlight into whatever note file was last opened. So the net effect is that you have these useless notes inserted "randomly' inserted into various note files that have nothing to do with the topic you highlighted. If you could designate a default note file to be used just for highlighted notes that would be better.

Wyn Laidig

I have found, if you make a note file I have called it "HiLiteOnly", just clicking on the tab is enough to tell the program to send the "offending" highlighter notes to it

Dominic - I am thinking that this always has to be open, or more accurately, has to be the last Note File active, for this to work. Which means (since i highlight a lot), that i always have to have this HiLite note file open and click in it before every highlight. It would be nice if we could set this as default somewhere.

Simon’s Brother

PLEASE REMOVE THIS

I understand your concerns and they are valid, but removing it is not the solution. I find it very helpful when making observations about the text i.e. inductive study, to be able to write a note about what I am highlighting, and maybe even a question that I want to investigate further at a later time. I am very pleased to see this feature. I agree though with some of the issues you raise and these do need to be addressed, but this is a beta release so it should be expected that not everything is yet perfect....Logos sometimes put things like this out there in the beta so we can provide feedback and thus allowing them to fine tune it.

DominicM

yes, if you open it, only need to click in it once to set it as last active, you dont need to click on it again unless you open another notetfile.

Simon’s Brother

It would be nice if we could set this as default somewhere.

[Y] For those who want simple highlight I agree this should be added.

MJ. Smith

I have said over and over and over again that there are too many subsystem in L4 (notes, clippings, highlights, etc....), and that they all need to be rolled into one system.

Tom, next I expect you to utter the word "inheritance"[:)] Then you'll say something heretical like "Notes are notes whether or not some content is auto-generated (clippings); whether the link is fixed (in Guides), absent (Add Note), single (selection or highlight) or multiple (reference), whether the text marker is an icon at the start (reference) or potentially marks the entire text (selection or highlight).

How do I know this is heretical? 'Cause it makes notes a consistent, universal object. And universal is a synonym for catholic therefore this view of notes is heretical.[:P]

Or, if you prefer, from the behavior and performance I can't make heads or tails out of the current implementation. I swear it can't be properly encapsulated because it seems so chaotic - and applications I can't figure out drive me nuts.[*-)][D][N]

tom

How do I know this is heretical? 'Cause it makes notes a consistent, universal object. And universal is a synonym for catholic therefore this view of notes is heretical.

[:P]

Well, I do use clippings as notes so that I can tag them. I will highlight one word in a document, and send it to a clipping file. Then I would delete the word and write what I want in the clipping. Then I will update the tags as I see fit.

So, notes are notes whether or not some content is auto-generated (clippings); whether the link is fixed (in Guides), absent (Add Note), single (selection or highlight) or multiple (reference), whether the text marker is an icon at the start (reference) or potentially marks the entire text (selection or highlight).

Wes Saad

I highlight all sorts of stuff, but I dont need to note inserted in my active note file to tell me what i highlighted.

Logos has a nasty habit of winning me over to features I had opposed. The more I think about and have seen others discuss this new approach, the more it has grown on me.

First the good news: as others have noted, there will be a feature to allow you to set a default notes file for highlights. I think most of us will use this feature rather than have highlights go into the last active note file.

Second, the strength: I can see how this approach makes a lot of sense for people using Logos to make highlights and notes for different classes. One person mentioned having highlights on a text for different classes, and he has different highlights on the same text for different classes. It had already been possible to selectively turn on and off various highlights based on the palate, but now indicators for both notes and highlights can be turned on and off together.

Related to this is a new feature Logos is putting together - sharing data. If a professor has marked up a set of text with highlights and notes and wants to only share those highlights and notes with a particular class (or if a student does this, or a Bible study leader, etc) the new approach makes it very easy to share highlights and notes together - putting together a note file for a particular study.

The strength of the new approach will probably not mean much to a lot of Logos users, but we will be able to select a default note file (or files?) for our highlights and continue using highlights as we always did. Meanwhile, those who could use the new features will get a huge boost.

spitzerpl

Logos has a nasty habit of winning me over to features I had opposed. The more I think about and have seen others discuss this new approach, the more it has grown on me.

I try to keep in mind that the one thing Logos is able to see pretty clearly while we look in a "foggy mirror" is where they are going and how they plan to get there. Before Jesus died on the Cross the whole idea of the cross sounded very much out of place to the disciples.But God knew where He was going with it all and what he wanted to accomplish.

It is good that we have commented strongly about what we have seen. It lets Logos evaluate where they see things going and all the features that they see themselves implementing in comparison to the comments we make. We just need to keep in mind that beta is beta and that, I believe, Logos has a track record of implementing features very well.

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Jacob Hantla

This is the worst feature Logos has ever introduced. I highlight all sorts of stuff, but I dont need to note inserted in my active note file to tell me what i highlighted. It totally clutters up my note files. PLEASE REMOVE THIS, or make it invisible behind the scenes so it doesn't appear in my notes files

I agree totally. Not all highlights need notes. This just makes a big cluttered mess in note files. Not very thoughtful to the way that we may use highlighting.

There are a number of times when this is really nice. Perhaps we should define in the highlighting style itself whether or not we want a note file created for that highlight.

Dave Hooton

Perhaps we should define in the highlighting style itself whether or not we want a note file created for that highlight.

I think it's a question of which Note file, given that all your v4.3 Highlights ended up in Note files. The paradigm for sharing/collaboration is Notes = Annotation+Highlighting and Highlighting = Annotation[:^)] (if that makes sense don't worry).

MJ. Smith

Perhaps we should define in the highlighting style itself whether or not we want a note file created for that highlight.

This has some serious drawbacks a design plan. I think that a "default to hidden" would achieve what you want while maintaining a robust design.

This just makes a big cluttered mess in note files. Not very thoughtful to the way that we may use highlighting.

This is what I had been led to expect by the early posts on the beta - it has not been what has actually happened to me either in the original conversion or in my adding notes and highlighting. In fact I take back some of my initial responses that assumed the conversion did this.

My biggest complaint (outside of features not present) with the clipping/note/highlight system is the notes by reference showing up in commentaries.

Perhaps we should define in the highlighting style itself whether or not we want a note file created for that highlight.

I think we need to wait until we see how sharing and collaboration work before we ask for features that could interfere with those features.