The “Rework notes function” suggestion is over 3½ years old. When it was created, Logos 4.2a was the latest version of the software. Since then, we’ve released two major versions of Logos and dozens of minor updates (“one or multiple phases”? 
) containing thousands of improvements. Many of those improvements have been in Notes.
Now that a lot of the individual items have been implemented, the “rework notes" suggestion has served its purpose: we know (and won’t forget) that Notes are important to many customers. But with 60+ individual items in this suggestion (and more in its comments!), we don’t actually know what’s most important to you. We need to prioritise what we work on, and we need you to prioritise your votes for the features that are most important to you.
I’m “Completing” the suggestion so that your votes are returned and you can use them to vote for the specific features you really want.
Below I’ve categorized the individual suggestions (that I saw) into four main groups:
- Completed in Logos 6 — these features have already been implemented in Logos 6 (or an earlier release); reminder: the free Logos 6 engine will be available to all customers on 3 February 2015.
- Already Have Suggestions — these already have suggestions on UserVoice; you can add votes to the existing items.
- Could Be Created As New Suggestions — I couldn’t find an existing suggestion for this; you’re welcome to create a new one. Please create one UserVoice item per suggestion so that 1 vote = 1 idea.
- Need More Detail — I’m really not sure what this suggestion means. If you create a new suggestion for it, we’ll need more detail to understand it. (Or it might already have been implemented.)
Finally, there are existing UserVoice suggestions that weren’t already covered; I’ve provided some links at the bottom.
Note: In the future, “bag of ideas” UserVoice suggestions for Notes are likely to be closed with a link to this post. It’s better overall if there’s a single idea per UserVoice suggestion so that 1 vote = 1 idea.
Completed in Logos 6
- allow a note to be attached to multiple passages - with the note icon appearing on each passage
- allow links to the web
- permit notes to be attached to a lemma
- permit notes to be attached to a liturgical date
- allow colored text in Notes
- allow underlined text in Notes
- sort sequences: canon
- sort sequences: created date
- sort sequences: last modified date
- sort sequences: user note title
- permit more note icon colors (at least match L3)
- allow tags on all notes and a search on those tags
- allow table of contents similar to L3
- Implement parity for Mac version
- include spell checker in notes
- improve the performance: keyboard entry, long notes and note files
- allow the sharing of notes between users
- use right click rather than red x for delete
- It is far too easy to click the red circle "Deletion" X's for individual notes
- When right click on a Highlighted word, please add Edit Annotation and Open Annotation while keeping Remove Annotation. Open Annotation would position note file to annotation plus open note file, if needed.
Already Have Suggestions
Could Be Created As A New Suggestion
- allow links to Logos 6 documents (sentence diagrams, vocabulary lists, etc.)
- allow links to local files (PDF, MP3, PowerPoint, etc.)
- permit notes to be attached to a search string
- sort sequences: highlighting
- sort sequences: remember sequence function (allow temporary)
- sort sequences: set priority for sort ket values (example: liturgical year)
- integrate a journaling feature - a note file that automatically includes date in the title and automatically sorts on date
- layout should remember position in a note file (specific note)
- permit drag and drop on multiple notes
- retain "deleted" notes (and other user content) for a period of time - permitting a restore function
- allow prioritization of files (especially notes) in "My Content" section
- allow searching of My Content by heading
- allow the saving of a BWS either into a Clipping or a Note
- The ability to show at the top of the note the content highlighted or marked up when the note was made. This would make view notes in "Full" much better. Thus rather than seeing, "God's chief end...his mercy." we would see, "God's chief end in creation and redemption is to display for the benefit of his elect the fulness of his glory, especially his mercy." That to us is "full" view.
- For note titles, please add choice to show abbreviated or complete highlighted selection.
- Should also provide options for users to view Scriptures only, Comments only, or Both.
- Users should be able to export the full (!?!) scripture text from Notes, as well as their references/comments ... or better yet be able to choose either or both to export. In addition, the "export Notes to raw Text Document" functionality needs to format the output better: The individual Notes in the text file should be separated by a line of "enough/obvious" dashes (i.e. "------------------") and perhaps an empty line before/after, unlike now where there are only 3 dashes or, with the "Save as Passage List" functionality, where there is no separation, not even an empty line. This improved export functionality will help me to view the raw text output files in my Kindle.
- Within the note/highlight document, if the marked up content icon (far left) would default to the markup type used to make the note, that would make visually searching a notes file easier.
- Add a specialized note function that allows one to "fill in" the answers in the various study guides - with the ability to toggle whether or not the answers are shown and to copy (for export or printing) with or without the answers.
- the attachment of notes to entire resources as well, for the writing of personal reviews / comments / thoughts about the resource as a whole
- Please add Note indicator customization options. e.g. letter(s), which could use capabilities of Logos display engine on all platforms, including superscript and subscript.
- In Notes file, please add miniature of style used for that entry
- Please add ability to highlight footnote text.
- tags: standardized smart tags (which would auto-fill as you type, like library tags)
- tags: universally rename-able (Also like Library tags)
- tags: filter-able, With the ability to create passage lists from those filters
- tags: visible when you hover your cursor (so you can see which tags are applied without opening the note)
- tags: editable from mobile apps (create on mobile UserVoice)
- Show "title" in popup (in addition to the note itself and the file in which it is contained) when hovering over icon that is attached to the text. Since a note can be either "by selection" or "by reference" there must be a flag for each note as to which it is. Seems like that flag could be used to have the pop up display content based upon the type of note.
- Be able to do a wholesale reset on all the icons and/or color for a given note file. —
- add a reporting feature which pulls all notes on a given pericope into a printable, exportable file
Need More Detail- allow user selection of highlight style to indicate attached note/selected text - include suppressing highlighting or show only on mouse over
- improve input window (more like L3)
- sequence multiple note icons on a text by standard Prioritization
- additional formating: fine control of font size
- ability to add notes to collections
- automatic linking of Bible references to handle double punctuation and all standard citation abbreviations
Existing Suggestions
