Whats the best way to use Highlighting?
The title says it all, but I presently highlight all the same colour. Based on great quotes etc. However I know these are searchable.... I am not really using this feature to it's max.
How do you use highlighting?
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I am not a huge user of the highlighting feature either. However this page may give you some ideas http://wiki.logos.com/Extended_Tips_for_Highlighting_and_Visual_Filters#Highlighting_palette_for_visual_filter_markups
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Mike, I created some custom highlight styles with icons so that I can quickly see the general gist of a highlight without even reading it.
Here's what my custom highlight palette looks like - it's still very much a work in progress!
I use this mainly for highlighting my Bible, as opposed to other resources.
When reading commentaries, etc. I tend to use solid colours to highlight key parts of the text. I tend to do most of my highlighting in blue, and for really key passages I want to draw attention to, I'll highlight them in red.
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Can custom highlights be renamed?
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Yes, Rich, they can:
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Thank you for the replies. A further question. When I read a book and come across something. I highlight (cmd+k) I see that their is a huge file with all of these highlights in it. Is there a way to make a highlight file per book? Or is this redundant?0
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Mike Tourangeau said:
Thank you for the replies. A further question. When I read a book and come across something. I highlight (cmd+k) I see that their is a huge file with all of these highlights in it. Is there a way to make a highlight file per book? Or is this redundant?
Yes, and that is what I do... I create one note document per resource. In L5, the behavior for where the highlight note is stored occurs at the pallet level. Right click on the pallet name to pull up the options.
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alabama24 said:
Yes, and that is what I do... I create one note document per resource. In L5, the behavior for where the highlight note is stored occurs at the pallet level. Right click on the pallet name to pull up the options.
I do this too.
Here's the setting Alabama was talking about:
All my highlighting palettes are set to "Save In: most recent note file" That way I select my user-created note file for the specific resource I'm highlighting (which is usually called the same name as the book I'm highlighting), and all my highlights are saved to that file.
(If you use the iOS app, there's a similar setting accessed from the cog-shaped button on the home screen to send all your highlights to your most recent note file too.)
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Doubtless the answer is somewhere in the forums or wikis but can you tell me or point me to info about the icons you are using? Would be very appreciative.
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John Crupper said:
Doubtless the answer is somewhere in the forums or wikis but can you tell me or point me to info about the icons you are using? Would be very appreciative.
Paul will have to give you a more specific answer... but he added those manually. Here is the wiki article on highlighting: http://wiki.logos.com/Highlighting
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John, I simply used websites which allow you to download free icons to find the ones I wanted. Google image also lets you search for icons by adjusting the image size setting.
Here's one example of the sites I used - http://www.iconarchive.com
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Peace to you, Paul! *smile*Paul-C said:John, I simply used websites which allow you to download free icons to find the ones I wanted. Google image also lets you search for icons by adjusting the image size setting. Here's one example of the sites I used - http://www.iconarchive.com [The hyper linking function doesn't seem to be working right now on my iPad!]
I appreciate your "sharing" with us! Thank you! I also appreciate some of the lovely icons you are using...
Would you consider please sharing some of these on one of the Logos FaithLife groups? It would save an immense amount of work ... for example, the tree OR The Family Tree - your icon for geneology and other great ideas ... *smile* also love you "healing" icon ...!!!
For example ... here's a sample of a palette that Kevin Becker shared with this group some time ago ...
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Hi Milford. I'd be delighted to share my highlight icons. I've never done this before. Is there a simple guide to help me to do this?
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Hi, Paul! I have to leave my study for a few hours ......... I'll ruminate on these ideas while I'm moving around this afternoon ... Also, perhaps some others have some ideas ????
Blessings indeed ........ AND Strength for the Day to you! *smile*
Edit: P.S. Thanks for being so "open" to sharing! Indeed!
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Thanks so much! One other question. Do they just get dumped in a folder used by Logos?
Again, thanks.
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Hi John. I assume they would end up in some sort of default highlight specific note file, however I've elected to save all my highlights in specific note files for each book/resource.
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I've had a stab at figuring out how to share my icon highlighting style.
I've created a new faithlife group - https://faithlife.com/logos-5-highlight-icons-styles/activity
And I've published my "Icon Highlights" file to the group via documents.logos.com
You should be able to see the file under the documents tab - https://faithlife.com/logos-5-highlight-icons-styles/documents
If anyone is interested in sharing this file, and is having difficulties accessing it, please post in this thread and perhaps a few of us could troubleshoot the problem.
This is all new to me! [:S]
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Paul! I don't believe it! Absolutely incredible! Your very helpful and pleasant icons are NOW in my highlighter tools .............
..... sssmmmoooootthhhhh!, eh? Thanks very much indeed! Appreciated and saved me tonnes of work! *smile*
Peace to you! ...... and ..... Always Joy in the Lord!
Edit: Here it is! *smile*
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Milford Charles Murray said:
Paul! I don't believe it! Absolutely incredible! Your very helpful and pleasant icons are NOW in my highlighter tools .............
..... sssmmmoooootthhhhh!, eh? Thanks very much indeed! Appreciated and saved me tonnes of work! *smile*
Peace to you! ...... and ..... Always Joy in the Lord!
Thanks for letting me know Milford - glad it's worked out for you. Delighted I could share them to the glory of the Lord! 😀
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Yes! Indeed! To the Glory of the Lord! Yes! *smile*
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Milford Charles Murray said:
Yes! Indeed! To the Glory of the Lord! Yes! *smile*
(PS - Your first name has a special meaning for me. I grew up and spent all my formative years in a town called Milford Haven in west Wales!)
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Awesome. Thanks. Learned a few things I didn't know about highlights, Faithlife and Logos in general. Really appreciate it!!!
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John Crupper said:
Awesome. Thanks. Learned a few things I didn't know about highlights, Faithlife and Logos in general. Really appreciate it!!!
Thanks John. I learned quite a few things too!
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Just went there by Google ......... will visit that whole region again later this evening ...Paul-C said:Milford Charles Murray said:Yes! Indeed! To the Glory of the Lord! Yes! *smile*
(PS - Your first name has a special meaning for me. I grew up and spent all my formative years in a town called Milford Haven in west Wales!)
To the Glory of the Lord, I've just spent a few moments listening to some fantastic Welsh Choral Music...
I'm not Welsh; however, is there any more beautiful music anywhere??? *smile* Thanks again, Paul!
Edit: For those with a bit of time on their hands, you may want to "poke around" this website to behold the works of a great choral group, eh??? *smile*
http://www.morristonorpheus.com/?gclid=CNeXvu7S-5MCFQyR1QodriBMWA
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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In case this helps anyone else, I'm sharing this new highlighting palette in the faithlife group referenced above:
I created it so that I number important points in a section of text I'm highlighting where the author / formatting of the book hasn't done this already (say where there are several points in a block of text).
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Thanks, Paul! *smile* Psalm 29:11
This MAY or MAY NOT be helpful to me in the future! I need to determine yet if and when to use them -- and how -- for my needs! Am glad they are available and grateful to you for thinking of your brothers and sisters -- of course! all! all! all! To the Glory of God!!!
I've found myself frequently using the other icons you shared with us so freely ........... Peace!
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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That's cool Milford! Glad the others are useful to you!
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I love this! I've also added a Herod palette and have more to share... I would love to see what others have to share too!
Wish we could get those shown on the wiki page too. Document sharing is just so darn cool!
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Peace, Mike! *smile* Thanks for sharing! Indeed! Cool, yes!
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Thanks Mike - thankful for your sharing too! [Y]
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alabama24 said:Mike Tourangeau said:
Thank you for the replies. A further question. When I read a book and come across something. I highlight (cmd+k) I see that their is a huge file with all of these highlights in it. Is there a way to make a highlight file per book? Or is this redundant?
Yes, and that is what I do... I create one note document per resource. In L5, the behavior for where the highlight note is stored occurs at the pallet level. Right click on the pallet name to pull up the options.
I don't think I understand this right. I am reading Edwards. I make a note file for Edward's, but when I highlight text it goes to a file called "Solid Colors" How do I adjust what note file it goes to? I am so confused
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Mike Tourangeau said:
I don't think I understand this right. I am reading Edwards. I make a note file for Edward's, but when I highlight text it goes to a file called "Solid Colors" How do I adjust what note file it goes to? I am so confused
That is the default behavior. It goes into a note file called "solid colors" because you used a highlighter from the "solid colors" pallet. To change the behavior, you must change the settings within the pallet. Off the top of my head, I believe that you right click to the right of the pallet name in the highlighting tool.
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alabama24 said:Mike Tourangeau said:
I don't think I understand this right. I am reading Edwards. I make a note file for Edward's, but when I highlight text it goes to a file called "Solid Colors" How do I adjust what note file it goes to? I am so confused
That is the default behavior. It goes into a note file called "solid colors" because you used a highlighter from the "solid colors" pallet. To change the behavior, you must change the settings within the pallet. Off the top of my head, I believe that you right click to the right of the pallet name in the highlighting tool.
Alabama, you are good with remembering what to do off the top of your head! I too easily forget and have to look it up.
Anyhow I have my highlights set to my preferences by adjusting all the defaults to be in "Most Recent Note File". In addition I am returning to all my notes that were mistakenly diverted to specific palettes and
- Creating a new note with the name of the resource
- Deleting the old highlight
- Creating a new highlight that now appears in the new note of the correct resource.
This may sound too picky but the advantages of doing this far outweigh all my highlights being clumped into several large palette files.
Edit: I should add that I can easily scroll through highlights of books that I have read by choosing "annotation" in the drop down menu which will allow me to jump from highlight to highlight to make the changes quickly.
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