I want to have an index that I make up. Subjects like fear, joy, peace. Then I can put things under the topic like thoughts, verses, quotes, etc. The window would only show the words until you click on them to expand them to see the other things.
You could do that via a Personal Book. You'd set up the subjects as Headings, so they'd appear in the Table of Contents panel, and you could click on them to jump to the section of the book that had all your thoughts, verses, quotes and things associated with that topic.
Or a slightly easier way to do it would be using a Notes document. You'd add a new note to it for each subject, put the subject in the Title of the note, and then in the body of the note you'd put your thoughts and verses and quotes and such. When viewing the Note document in Compact view, you'd see only the subjects (and the first line of content of the note), but you could click on one to expand it and see the content inside.
Have you tried Labels and Search to achieve this?
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I'm not sure how that would be relevant to what Douglas is trying to do. He's not asking about finding stuff in resources, but about creating a personal collection of his own thoughts and findings (verses and related quotes) on various topics, something he can add to as he goes along doing his study. At least that's how I read his question.
The topic is the label; The thoughts, verses, quotes etc. are the selection to which the label is attached -- very similar to using the tags on clippings. It creates a dynamic index by user defined topics which works for me.
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Personal Books can have Table of Contents (ToC) so can click ToC for navigation; wiki has => https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books
Note documents have a compact view, which can be expanded.
Clipping documents can be used as scrapbooks for gathering thoughts.
Logos 6 has new Labels feature that can be searched => New Search: {Label}
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An alternate approach - one more easily modified over time than a personal book - is folders in your favorites.
Make a new folder for each subject and you can add links to any books, notes, or important verses you have/make in Logos.
To get a specific verse into your favorites folder just navigate to that verse in the translation of your choice, then click & drag the panel's title bar into the folder.
I use this extensively to keep the verses and resources I need at hand for different counseling and ministry subjects.
An alternate approach - one more easily modified over time than a personal book - is folders in your favorites. Make a new folder for each subject and you can add links to any books, notes, or important verses you have/make in Logos.
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Best suggestion so far!
Thanks for the suggestions. I think the notes option will do. I might experiment with the others.
Thanks all
Good evening, God bless you all:
I have been creating folders in favourites and labelling them with key concept word(s), but after a while, it gets hard to find information.
Is there a way to search exclusively within favorites and notes? (like if those two were in a collection?).
I know that favorites only saves hyperlinks, but I was wondering if a search capability within it exists. Or in notes.
Thanks ahead of time for any help you can share with us.
No, there is no way to search within favorites as though it were a collection, I don't think one can easily convert favorites into a collection but someone may have found a way.
No, there is no way to search within favorites as though it were a collection
Related but different topic: just the other day I was wishing I could search through my favorites (just within the titles of items I'd dragged into folders there) for something. Couldn't remember quite what it was or where I'd put it. This would be a useful feature, I think. Ctrl+F to find. I should start a new thread for this.
Thanks for the info.
I guess I'll have to come up with a labor intensive way... e.g. screen capture of favorites' expanded folders, OCR them, and get the list together with pertinent notes to a docx file and to PBB, then it would be searchable.
I wish there was a simpler way.
Thanks again.
God Bless (once more):
I got the base Catholic package L6, and I was very impressed with the Catholic Topical Index.
Would there be a way in which collectively we could come up with something similar choosing the 150 most important topics in Christianity so that links to resources from properly identified different traditions are included, so comparative studies of doctrine could be done easily?
https://verbum.com/features/topical-index
I got the base Catholic package L6, and I was very impressed with the Catholic Topical Index. Would there be a way in which collectively we could come up with something similar choosing the 150 most important topics in Christianity so that links to resources from properly identified different traditions are included, so comparative studies of doctrine could be done easily? https://verbum.com/features/topical-index
This exists already in the form of the user editable http://topics.logos.com
When you open a Reading List in Logos, it draws from those entries. They have links to resources in Logos, and often also articles on the web (Wikipedia and elsewhere). It's not really identified by tradition, though, so that would be something people could add if enough people were interested in volunteering to do that. But identifying what tradition each author comes from is an art in itself. Some folks have put together an enormous spreadsheet listing the traditions of a huge number of the authors available in Logos. So it would require cross-referencing that file and adding traditions in parentheses after each author mentioned in a reading list, and as the traditions spreadsheet is undergoing constant work and updating, it would likely make the reading lists get out of date as corrections were found. I would suggest NOT putting the traditions into the reading lists, but letting people do their own research based on the "Denominations and Theology" spreadsheet. The latest version of that spreadsheet is available for downloading from here.
Thanks for your answer.
I have seen Logos topics, but just as Thompson's chain reference (4000+ themes), is too much even to try to pinpoint key stuff.
What I like about the Catholic Topical Index is that it limits its entries to 500 more or less.
I was thinking more of getting consensus on the 150 most important doctrinal topics, and each member give input on their own tradition's point of view on that particular topic.
A concise, to the point resource like that would be a blessing for starting Christians and believers of limited time, so that quickly one could go over key doctrines and how different traditions look at it.
It could even be converted to PBB resource that could be shared to interested logos user believers.
