Question on Note Setting, Default Note for Highlights

I'd like to be able to store the setting for the default note for highlights when I save the layout. Why? I am preparing 3 Bible studies, 2 Jn, 3 Jn, & Jude. Right now, it appears as if the setting for default note is global. When I change the setting for the 2 Jn study, it also changes the setting for the 3 Jn & Jude studies. Obviously, I don't want the highlights for one Bible study in the highlights for the other Bible studies.

Is there any way to accomplish what I want to do, short of REMEMBERING that I have to change it each time I open a new layout? Remembering? That's chancy.... Sad

On the plus side, Notes are friendly enough that I finally deleted my L3 installation.... and the resources... gained almost 10Gb in space... Geeked

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Jack Hairston

Hello, Bill:

What are the steps you take to set the default note. (I'm not picturing what you mean.)

I use a separate notes file (123John) and sa ve it in its own layout (123John) so that when I open the layout, the notes file is ready to go, along with the commentaries that match these letters.

BillS

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/387821#Comment_387821

What are the steps you take to set the default note. (I'm not picturing what you mean.)

Hi Jack,

In each layout for 2 John, 3 John, & Jude, I've included a Bible open to the passage, a commentary, & several other relevant resources. In addition, each layout includes the Highlighting panel (so far, standard Logos pallettes) & two note files:

a highlighting note file hold all the highlights
a note file to hold all other notes

Here are the steps you asked about. 1st, open layout for the 2 John Bible Study.

Open layout for the "2 John Bible Study"
On Highlighting panel, collapse all pallettes.
At right hand side of each pallette, select blue drop-down menu & at bottom set the "Save In" option to the highlight note for the 2 John Bible Study.
Do this for each pallette. All notes now go to the highlight note file for 2 John.
Save layout.

Now, open the 3 John Bible Study layout.

Repeat steps 1-4 above, only for each pallette set the "Save-in" option to the highlight note for 3 John.

Now, reopen the 2 John Bible Study layout. Notes are incorrectly set to go to the 3 John layout....

Switching between layouts is going to be a problem for me, trying to remember to go back & figure out where my highlights are going.... <sigh> UNLESS, someone on this forum knows a way to get that info stuffed into the layout instead of relying on my memory. [;)]

Thanks for the response! Any suggestions?

Jack Hairston

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/387860#Comment_387860

Open layout for the "2 John Bible Study"

On Highlighting panel, collapse all pallettes.

At right hand side of each pallette, select blue drop-down menu & at bottom set the "Save In" option to the highlight note for the 2 John Bible Study.
Do this for each pallette. All notes now go to the highlight note file for 2 John.

Save layout.

The approach I use is not to worry about where the pallette data is saved. Is there a reason why you want a separate pallette for each layout?

BillS

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/387861#Comment_387861

The approach I use is not to worry about where the pallette data is saved. Is there a reason why you want a separate pallette for each layout?

Yes, Jack... main goal is to keep Bible study highlights out of the texts I also use for Sunday sermon planning. I do Bible study with a projector. So I color code Bible text with the same color in the commentary on points that I want to make for the Bible study.... The non-highlight note file contains links to other translations or other resources that are needed to help us understand the points being made. All this makes for a great real time Bible study, with Logos open to answer questions & with eyes naturally led to points I wanted to make (look for same color)... But it makes it distracting for sermon work.. I thought about putting all the notes in one file that I could forget about. But a large highlight note file makes Logos run even slower, & the highlights for the last study really aren't that helpful for a Bible study on a different book (I learned that in L3, these last few years of projected Bible studies).

I'm looking for some way to help a layout remember all the settings.... Otherwise, it's on my memory....

Thanks for the response.

Ks4J? Others? Any hope/help?

Ben Clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/387961#Comment_387961

Hi Bill, I don't know if this will help you, but I recently discovered that if you keep your three notes files open in Logos, then when you highlight your text and right click it, the contextual menu offers all three open Notes files as places to write your note. So, I have a note file for "Interpretive Questions" and one for "General Insights." As long as both of those notes files are open in Logos, they will both appear in my contextual menu when I right click a selection in my Bible or other Logos resource. Will that work for you?