Prayer List as Project List

This may sound odd, but I've found myself buying books, watching sermons, conferences, having discussions etc. and thinking from time to time I'd love to do a study on "x" or this books on sale now, so I'm going to buy it, but won't be able to read it until later...

In most of these situations, I find that I forget what I originally wanted to study, or may start the study but forget where I left off, etc. Tonight I explored the possibility of using the prayer lists as a way to created a checklist of books to read or studies to start, using the notes section in the prayers I could list resources to look at, or methods to use while researching, etc.

Anyone with a similar personality know of a better method?

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Kevin Olson

I would not say this is better, but what I do is set up the new book in a saved layout with whatever other resources I need with it (e.g. Bibles, Grammars, Handbooks, Dictionaries). I use my layout list as my future study section. For example, I bought Luther's commentary on Galatians. I set it up as a layout with a Bible. The nice thing about this method is that when you start working through it, you can update your active layout and it acts as a bookmark for you, in case you need to start on something else. I have many layouts setup like already. It helps me prioritize my study.

Graham Criddle

Hi Derek

You could use the "Favorites" tool for this - http://wiki.logos.com/Favorites

Set up a folder for "Projects" and then for each book you want to study / topic you want to pursue create a separate sub-folder

You can then:

"drag" books to the relevant sub-folder so they are easily accessible when you want them
put notes in the sub-folder to remind you of things you want to look at
put clippings in there to remind you of things of interest

Graham

Dave Hooton

I'd love to do a study on "x" or this books on sale now, so I'm going to buy it, but won't be able to read it until later...

I would use a Notes file as it has better formatting than a Prayer List. Just use Add Note to create entries.

For books you already have, creating a layout is far better.