Notes vs Clippings
I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between Notes and Clippings, except the latter seems to be less useful. Am I missing something big?
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For me, I use Notes when I want to "put a post it note in a book" to remind me that I had a thought on this paragraph here when I come back to that book later--even months or a year later.
I use Clippings for my Sunday School prep to be the collection folder for me for all these observations, points and other snippets I find as I go through my search results. Then when I am finished with the searching stage, I reorganize the clippings by dragging, and add notes to each clipping ("this illustration goes with this portion of next Sunday's lesson) and then export it all to Word to print out.
So to me they are two different but useful tools.
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Clippings are intended to store and format multiple text selections, usually on a theme/topic, so I use it for lesson preparation. You can add short comments (Notes) to each clip.
Notes are much more cumulative being akin to the sort of notes/highlighting you would have made in a paper bible/resource i.e. they reflect your ongoing study of the bible.
Dave
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I don't use the Notes feature but I do use Clippings for both sermon preparation and academic research.
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Hey guys,
Does anyone use NOTES for long-term storage of exegetical insights and written sermons? Or do you simply transfer that data into Microsoft Word or something else?
In other words, do you think it would be good to use Logos as the place to build up a base of exegetical notes/reflections?0 -
Kyle Johnston said:
Hey guys,
Does anyone use NOTES for long-term storage of exegetical insights and written sermons? Or do you simply transfer that data into Microsoft Word or something else?
In other words, do you think it would be good to use Logos as the place to build up a base of exegetical notes/reflections?I don't use Notes that way, but that is exactly how I use Clippings files with added Notes.
Every blessing
Alan
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Kyle Johnston said:
do you think it would be good to use Logos as the place to build up a base of exegetical notes/reflections?
Yes, I do this. I have several hundred not files that together contain thousands of individual notes. My Bible notes make up my own study BIble or commentary. Each note file is usually for a chapter of a Bible book and notes are attached to one or more verses so they are available in any Bible referenced resource (Bible, Commentary, etc.) I read. I also crate a note file for non-Bible books I read and make notes there for future reference, and un-attached notes on topics. I find it helps me move along faster when I study a passage or topic I've worked on in the past. The neat thing is I can add to and/or modify my existing notes to help my notes library grow more complete and accurate. They are also available in my search results whether I'm doing a Bible search or a general search.
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The difference for me is that ' notes ' are my own personal insights and ' clippings ' are the insights of others. Clippings are great for collecting quotations and illustrations from Logos resources and they can be tagged with personalized topics. Both features are beneficial in their own way to my Bible study.
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Scott Jacobsen said:
I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between Notes and Clippings
A NOTE is something you write, it is not content found in the original resource. A CLIPPING is something in the content of the original resource that you 'clip' and save.
Yes, you can copy-and-paste into a note, and you can add a note to a clipping. That should clear it up. :-)
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Tim, and anyone else: I need some incite on making notes.
Is it better in your opinion to make note files on several topics, in other words to store notes with each topic under a different note file, or to try to do like in a paper bible and all under one file with highlighting and notation in the same file? I have started in the single note file per Bible, but it seems to be getting cluttered, and the note file is getting hard to browse through and organize.
Do you have a strategy for marking up and taking notes? The Training material does not go into detail about any strategy of taking notes.
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Fred Littlefield said:
Tim, and anyone else: I need some incite on making notes.
Hi Fred,
I anticipate that there are a variety of strategies utilised across the Logos community. I would suggest, therefore, you spend time finding an approach which works for you.
I have created a separate note file for each book of the Bible (clustering smaller books into one file). Similarly, I keep a separate note file for each monograph I happen to be reading.
Additionally to this, I maintain a series of topical/project note files.
I use a different markup for each category of note file (so that I can see where the note links to at a glance) and, because I maintain book-specific note files and topical note-files, there is some duplication in annotations. I do not tend to use clippings (admittedly, there are disadvantages in this approach as notes do not presently allow tagging, whereas clippings do).
I then organise my note files via a series of folders and subfolders within favourites.
I have tried to illustrate this via the screenshots below.
I would emphasise that this arrangement is very personal to me (and kind of works). However, there are limitations. I would use this as no more than a starter. It may be that power-users from the community have a far better approach.
Blessings
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Andy Evans said:
I have created a separate note file for each book of the Bible (clustering smaller books into one file). Similarly, I keep a separate note file for each monograph I happen to be reading.
Additionally to this, I maintain a series of topical/project note files.
This is exactly how I do it (except I don't cluster), and find it to work well in terms of being able to find stuff later.
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