I am very glad that Logos has taken a step forward in Document management in L5. I do have a couple of suggestions which I hope are given good consideration. Some of this has been mentioned before, but I added a couple of things and thought I would create a mock up to illustrate.
First, The left hand side should be primarily for organizing the documents by type. Why make such a valuable space for document creation? You create a document once… you have to find, organize, and open it over and over. I thought of several methods to create new documents, and it seemed most natural to have a new document button in the same location. In my mock up below, the user has clicked "notes." The file type has been highlighted and his/her notes are shown to the right. If the user wanted to create a new note, a simple click on the "plus" icon would create a new note.
Note: I can't think of one good reason to have all the file types visible in the list at the same time (i.e. the jumbled mess we have now). If there is a felt need to maintain that "ability," an all documents line could be added to the left menu.
Tags: Another user tonight brought up the idea of tagging note documents. I think this could be a valuable tool in the organizational flow. I would see these as "document tags" rather than "resource tags." The advantage to this system is that you could group all of your sermon series note files together and keep them separate from your devotional, Bible Study, Book Note files, etc. Clicking on the "Tag" column would group them together like is done in the library now.
Date: It may be helpful to users to find notes based on the date they were created and/or the date modified.
