Searching for Highlighted Text

SInce getting my iPad, my workflow has changed (again)!

This means that I want to rationalise and revisit some of my highlighted text, and their note files etc. (I am also re-defining some of the styles, since the iPad's black screen does not seem to reverse the highlighter pen ... white writing on a white background does not work well Sad )

The Question....

I have a style in a palette. I want to find all instances of that style within my notes files so that I can review the entry and move it into a different notes file if needed. How do I do this?

In a basic search, instead of searching 'all text' I can choose a style, but then what search term should I use? * does not seem to bring any results in a meaningful time frame (10 minutes+).

When I use *e* I get results but it then takes 745 seconds to find 1148 results in 38 articles, and 9 resources. However, when I attempt to delete the style in the highlghting palette, it immediately tells me that it is used by 48 annotations. This figure ('48') does not relate to the search hits ... I can see why, and understand what the search hit results mean (usually) ... so how can I list the '48'?

I do not want to delete, or restyle these annotations ... I want to see them! Now, I have highlighted the immediately ... because it seems to me ... that the location of these highlights must be indexed somewhere ... I want to ideally search for the style and see the corresponding note entry rather than the resource, but wither will do.

Thanks.

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Dave Hooton

In a basic search, instead of searching 'all text' I can choose a style, but then what search term should I use? * does not seem to bring any results in a meaningful time frame (10 minutes+).

Sadly, we cannot search for a style as an object, we have to search for text within the style across entire library and the wildcard * is the only certain way to get all instances of that style. I also would like the search to be restricted to My Content (which includes Notes).

However, when I attempt to delete the style in the highlghting palette, it immediately tells me that it is used by 48 annotations. This figure ('48') does not relate to the search hits ... I can see why, and understand what the search hit results mean (usually) ... so how can I list the '48'?

There is no correlation between text hits (e.g. number of words with 'e' in them) and the actual number of items (called annotations) with that style. If you searched on

I do not want to delete, or restyle these annotations ... I want to see them!

The only way I can offer is open each resource from your wildcard search, ensure the Locator Bar is visible and then search for Annotation which will show all highlights & notes.

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Martin Folley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/502092#Comment_502092

Thanks Dave.

That confirms for me that there has been no improvements in this in the last couple of years. I seem to be having all sorts of issues at the moment with the highlighting (crashes when I delete, unable to remove applied styles individually etc.)

BTW. My OP was wrong ... a search for * within a selected highlighting style does not seem to work. (I had simply aborted earlier), it simple runs forever.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/502139#Comment_502139

My OP was wrong ... a search for * within a selected highlighting style does not seem to work. (I had simply aborted earlier), it simple runs forever.

"forever" depends on your CPU and HDD/SSD! e* is a lot shorter.

It's time Logos did some serious optimization for wildcard searches.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/502381#Comment_502381

It's time Logos did some serious optimization for wildcard searches.

Yup, I've been asking for this since...forever! Bradley used to tweak me about it and was glad when it became even slower, as he was hoping I would stop trying to do it.

I still want to be able to find all of a particular highlighting style across my entire library easily. I use it to track typo reports and want to check back on them every 6 months or so to see if they've been fixed and then I can remove the highlighting.

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/502387#Comment_502387

I still want to be able to find all of a particular highlighting style across my entire library easily.

Yep, me, too, but for different reasons. Does anyone know if this can be done in another company's Bible study software? I think someone said it can be done in Kindle?

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/502404#Comment_502404

I still want to be able to find all of a particular highlighting style across my entire library easily.

Yep, me, too, but for different reasons. Does anyone know if this can be done in another company's Bible study software? I think someone said it can be done in Kindle?

In Kindle you can search for all your highlights in the currently open book, but not across your whole library. In fact, in Kindle, you can't search across your whole library for anything, so Logos has them far beat on that point.

In Logos, if you follow the practice of storing all your notes and highlights for each book in its own separate Notes file, then you can easily find all your highlights in that book that way. Or if you store them all in one file, then you can find them all in that file. Or you can open a book and click the down arrow for Next Annotation repeatedly to see them all. (This will show both notes and highlights.) These are all just shadows of what we really want, though.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/502387#Comment_502387

I still want to be able to find all of a particular highlighting style across my entire library easily. I use it to track typo reports and want to check back on them every 6 months or so to see if they've been fixed and then I can remove the highlighting.

I find that much easier to do from my Typos 'note' file.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/503324#Comment_503324

I still want to be able to find all of a particular highlighting style across my entire library easily. I use it to track typo reports and want to check back on them every 6 months or so to see if they've been fixed and then I can remove the highlighting.

I find that much easier to do from my Typos 'note' file.

Yes, I realized, after I'd written that, that this is no longer how I do it, now that I keep all my Typos highlights/notes in the same document.