Tidying Up Logos

Folks what follows will only reveal my questionable pursuit of tidiness that would make for a good clinical study for a psychiatrist. Nevertheless, I must ask these questions which have haunted me over the last year or so of using Logos 4.

After a study session I usually like to tidy up and setup for the next session. I routinely Close All (made a link for quick access), clear the searches and history entries, and delete the unnecessary layouts generated (wished there was a way to turn this feature off).

Question 1: I have often wondered if there was a simple way to also “reset” my resources. What I mean is Logos remembers where I was in every resource I have used (there may be some exceptions). I would prefer usually to open a book at the cover or toc. Are these bookmarks stored in one common file that can be deleted (if one is so inclined), or are they in a variety of files? Do these files all share a common suffix? If so, and I deleted them, would the Cloud put them back? Basically, what I am asking is there an easy way to “close” all the virtual books after you are done the session.

Question 2: While I usually use a personalized layout, which I update each week where I left off, occasionally I use the default passage search. It seems the only way to remove the entry from the passage bar is to restart Logos 4. Is there a way while remaining in the same session to delete this entry?

Please no replies from any psychiatrists out there. Wink

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Graham Criddle

Hi Mark

Question 1: I have often wondered if there was a simple way to also “reset” my resources. What I mean is Logos remembers where I was in every resource I have used (there may be some exceptions). I would prefer usually to open a book at the cover or toc. Are these bookmarks stored in one common file that can be deleted (if one is so inclined), or are they in a variety of files? Do these files all share a common suffix? If so, and I deleted them, would the Cloud put them back? Basically, what I am asking is there an easy way to “close” all the virtual books after you are done the session.

I don't know whether these bookmarks are stored in a single place but I would be very cautious about deleting Logos files to address this - if you did I would expect the cloud to restore them anyway as you thought might happen.

I'm sorry but I don't know of any way to do what you want here.

Question 2: While I usually use a personalized layout, which I update each week where I left off, occasionally I use the default passage search. It seems the only way to remove the entry from the passage bar is to restart Logos 4. Is there a way while remaining in the same session to delete this entry?

Do you mean the field on the Home Page where the enter the passage reference?

If so I agree that you can't get rid of it - you can delete it but it comes back again.

How much of an issue is this to you?

Graham

Mark Barnes

I have often wondered if there was a simple way to also “reset” my resources. What I mean is Logos remembers where I was in every resource I have used (there may be some exceptions). I would prefer usually to open a book at the cover or toc. Are these bookmarks stored in one common file that can be deleted (if one is so inclined), or are they in a variety of files? Do these files all share a common suffix? If so, and I deleted them, would the Cloud put them back? Basically, what I am asking is there an easy way to “close” all the virtual books after you are done the session.

If you delete the file these are saved in, they will get synced back from the cloud. However, you can press the 'Home' key on your keyboard to get back to the beginning of a book. Also, books opened from the favorites tool, or from the toolbar can be set to always open at the beginning of a book (create the shortcut/favorite by dragging a tab from book that's open to the first page, rather than creating it by dragging a book from your library). You could perhaps do that for certain resources.

Mark O'Hearn

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/320174#Comment_320174

Thanks for the responses so far. Pretty much what I thought but wanted to be sure. And you are correct Graham, “Do you mean the field on the Home Page where [we] enter the passage reference?” My apologies for being vague.

None of these things are causing any real problem, just bugs me I suppose when I open a resource and I am on page 138 because four months ago that was where I peaked in during a previous study. I know, silly. I get the sense others prefer a “messy study desk” with months’ worth of old searches, dozens and dozens of auto-generated layouts; well, I guess you get the point. And yes I also don’t mark in any of my Bibles or technical books (paper based or otherwise). [:$]

Regards