Notes and Highlighting Strategies in iOS.

Greg

For those that study and read a lot on the iOS app, what's your highlighting and note-taking strategies? I'm just starting to get into it and I'm trying to come up with a note-taking system that works for me. 

Unfortunately I'm finding taking notes on the iPad to be confusing and not really intuitive. I understand that highlighting a selection makes its own note file, and then adding a note to another selection will do something like that too, depending on whether you make it into a "selection" or a "reference" (and I just noticed this isn't even consistent...these two options will come up in one section of the book, but not another. Something about the actual text vs the editorial introduction? Confusing!)

If I do it as a "reference", I can't highlight it without redoing it and creating a second note. But if I do it as a "selection", I get this very annoying note file:

What's with the confusing and long blue text? That doesn't tell me anything about where the selection is from. But when I look at it in the desktop version of Logos, here is what I get:

All well and good, except I'm working primarily from my iPad. Is the really long blue text a bug of some sort?

When I just now did a test between the "Selection" option and the "Reference" option, here is what I got:

(Last two notes are my test notes)

Now there doesn't seem to be a difference between the two. All I can see is that one highlights while the other doesn't. Strangely, if you look at the top of the picture, you see the really long blue text again.

Its like I almost get a different result every time I try to do notes in any consistent way.

Am I just not getting it, or is this really confusing for other people? Are there any really good iPad note-ninjas that can help me make sense of this, or are there any really good videos explaining why this is happening?

Thanks!

JT (alabama24)

Hey Greg! 

I am in a bit of a hurry, and so I don't have a long time to make a reply. I didn't fully understand your question, but it appears that you might not understand how notes work in Logos. Let me explain briefly. 

First, there are really three kinds of notes:

1. Notes "by reference"
2. Notes "by selection"
3. Unattached notes.

A note by REFERENCE will appear in ANY and ALL versified resource. Make a note in John 3:16, it will appear in ALL resources at John 3:16 (including bibles, commentaries, etc). This will be true of any VERSIFIED Logos edition resource. (If you had a Vyrso edition commentary, it probably would not be included there...). You mentioned something about creating a note in the editorial section of a resource... since that isn't a bible reference, there isn't the option to create the note by reference.

A note by SELECTION means that you select some text to attach the note to. Highlights are notes of selection by definition, because you are selecting the text (down to individual characters). This is why highlights only appear in ONE translation. 

An unattached note is a note you create in a note document, which is not attached to either a selection NOR a reference.

One last thing: You can add any of the three kinds of notes to any note document that you want. In my case, I normally create a resource specific (named) note document and store all my highlights for that resource within.