Copy all highlighted text from a resource
Hello,
I have been reading a book in Logos recently, and I would now like to extract everything that I've highlighted into a Word document so that I can write up some notes. Please can you tell me how to do this?
Many thanks
John
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EDIT: See my edit below. This solution will NOT actually work for you. Sorry about that.
Everything you highlight ends up in a Logos Notes file. You can open it from the File menu. The filename is probably the name of the highlighting palette you used, unless you intentionally renamed it something else.
So open the file by clicking on it in the File menu, then you can use the Print/Export command to copy to the Clipboard or export to Word.
EDIT:
Ack! Alas, I realized belatedly that this won't work. The highlights file only shows you the first few words and last few words of the text that's highlighted. How useless! I was thinking that once you exported it it would include everything, but that is not the case. Just tried it and it exports exactly what you see in the preview.
Sorry for leading you down the garden path...
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Rosie Perera said:
I realized belatedly that this won't work. The highlights file only shows you the first few words and last few words of the text that's highlighted.
There seems to be a workaround (or rather, making creative use of a bug or design oversight) to achieve this by your solution: If the highlighting is done not in the PC or Mac software, but on the mobile app version, the text is not truncated in the Notes file. There's a thread out there describing this - however, I think Bradley announced they will fix the app rather than change the software.
Have joy in the Lord!
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John Percival said:
I would now like to extract everything that I've highlighted into a Word document
John,
welcome to the Logos user forums!
Unfortunately, as far as I know, there is no automated solution for extracting highlighted text. You may easily search for it and jump from one hit to the next, but you would need to manually copy and paste. If your highlights are very short, there may be a solution in searching for it according to http://wiki.logos.com/Finding_Highlighted_Text#Searching_for_all_highlighted_text_in_a_resource and then using print/export on the result.
Two drawbacks: Using * as search operator will find everything, but is awfully slow (I canceled the search), you may want to use something like a, an, the, he, she, it, to, of, is, was in the search box, which is likely to find all english sentences, but will miss things like "My God!"
Second: I said, this works only for short highlights - i.e. you then get more than the highlighted text. The search results will be truncated after a number of characters per paragraph. I applied the search string above on a Basic Search for one of my Highlighter Pens:
Now it's possible to either go through the resource from search result to search result (marked blue in screenshot) and copy manually or try to Print/Export the search results (marked red), but only with the truncation.
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Have joy in the Lord!
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NB.Mick said:Rosie Perera said:
I realized belatedly that this won't work. The highlights file only shows you the first few words and last few words of the text that's highlighted.
There seems to be a workaround (or rather, making creative use of a bug or design oversight) to achieve this by your solution: If the highlighting is done not in the PC or Mac software, but on the mobile app version, the text is not truncated in the Notes file. There's a thread out there describing this - however, I think Bradley announced they will fix the app rather than change the software.
Option: vote and/or comment on Logos User Voice suggestion => Highlighting and Notes Integration Improvements
Keep Smiling [:)]
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NB.Mick said:
Two drawbacks: Using * as search operator will find everything, but is awfully slow (I canceled the search), you may want to use something like a, an, the, he, she, it, to, of, is, was in the search box, which is likely to find all english sentences, but will miss things like "My God!"
Searching for:
a*,b*,c*,d*,e*,f*,g*,h*,i*,j*,k*,l*,m*,n*,o*,p*,q*,r*,s*,t*,u*,v*,w*,x*,y*,z*
is a bit faster than searching for * while finding all English words.
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