Suggestion - allowing pictures in the notes
First time posting here, so not sure if this is the right place. This is the best Bible app I've found and use it all the time! I was using it tonight at church, and in Bible study class there was a great diagram drawn on the board. I was really wishing that I could take a picture of it and embed it in the notes I'd added to that verse so that I could reference it the next time I read that passage. Thought I'd throw the suggestion out there to see if that would be a possible feature to add!
Thanks!
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Never mind...should have looked around more before posting. There's a specific place for suggestions for mobile apps! Will post there instead.
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Corina Ponter said:
...I was really wishing that I could take a picture of it and embed it in the notes I'd added to that verse so that I could reference it the next time I read that passage...
That does sound like a useful feature, Corina.
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Been asked for lots of times and we've been told it's not going to happen. Logos attitude to notes is that they are what you write in the margin of your bible and for them that thus excludes images. Images they say will cause issues with sync between devices. Personally I would like to be able to add images to notes.
Corina Ponter said:First time posting here, so not sure if this is the right place. This is the best Bible app I've found and use it all the time! I was using it tonight at church, and in Bible study class there was a great diagram drawn on the board. I was really wishing that I could take a picture of it and embed it in the notes I'd added to that verse so that I could reference it the next time I read that passage. Thought I'd throw the suggestion out there to see if that would be a possible feature to add!
Thanks!
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Disciple of Christ (doc) said:
Been asked for lots of times and we've been told it's not going to happen. Logos attitude to notes is that they are what you write in the margin of your bible and for them that thus excludes images. Images they say will cause issues with sync between devices. Personally I would like to be able to add images to notes.
Corina Ponter said:First time posting here, so not sure if this is the right place. This is the best Bible app I've found and use it all the time! I was using it tonight at church, and in Bible study class there was a great diagram drawn on the board. I was really wishing that I could take a picture of it and embed it in the notes I'd added to that verse so that I could reference it the next time I read that passage. Thought I'd throw the suggestion out there to see if that would be a possible feature to add!
Thanks!
Would be a handy feature! (And I'm sure some people draw diagrams in their bibles, too!)
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Corina Ponter said:
First time posting here, so not sure if this is the right place. This is the best Bible app I've found and use it all the time! I was using it tonight at church, and in Bible study class there was a great diagram drawn on the board. I was really wishing that I could take a picture of it and embed it in the notes I'd added to that verse so that I could reference it the next time I read that passage. Thought I'd throw the suggestion out there to see if that would be a possible feature to add!
Thanks!
What I used to do (though I haven't done it for some time) is to save it to my computer then put a link to the file in my notes—as I said, it's been a while, I assume this can still be done.
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Yes, we've been kind of grousing a bit over on the iOS forum (since the OP was really talking 'mobile').
But I'd suspect at Bellingham HQ, it's a strategic issue:
- The apps are sort of 'just for you' type products, with the assumption you have the desktop version. And so it does a little of this and that. I'd be even willing to bet at budget time, the apps are viewed as a breakeven affair (nice to have).
- Although putting images in notes is a good idea, it's a disaster when you're shipping syncs, going across platforms, etc. Text is easy; just get the fonts right. I think they even get nervous around tables, with limited functionality.
- What Logos calls the 'eco-system' doesn't 'eco' very well. Each piece sort of hints of the other pieces but just barely. Huge expertise in Proclaim doesn't show up in the other products, etc.
Now, if 'I' were Logos (in between running them into bankruptcy), I'd take 3-4 of the best app-y guys (or gals), move them 'somewhere', and then have them write an app the sits over top the book and datasets (Logos), Proclaim, and Faithlife (social world-ish), plus have the app act like a real mobile app (e.g. 'cool').
Reading, photos, social, community study, presentations, etc. Kind of like maybe what you do at church. Or at least wish you could.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Disciple of Christ (doc) said:
Been asked for lots of times and we've been told it's not going to happen. Logos attitude to notes is that they are what you write in the margin of your bible and for them that thus excludes images. Images they say will cause issues with sync between devices. Personally I would like to be able to add images to notes.
If you consider the MBs and GBs necessary for images verses text, if everyone starts jamming their notes full of high quality photos, the servers would need an upgrade, and people with old phones or tablets with not much space left would find themselves with logos crashing because their devices don't have enough space to download their own notes which are mandatory to download. I'm just talking about the problem, but I like the idea though, but they'd have to add an option to the mobile apps (DO NOT DOWNLOAD IMAGES IN NOTES).
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Overview
It is interesting that so many people say that the images cannot be added because of (1) syncing issues, (2) required server upgrades, and a myriad of other baseless reasons. Notice, for those of you who remember adding a message or reply in this forum, that the editor allows us to link to an image. Such an ability would suffice for the vast majority.
That is, we do not need to upload our 5Mb PNG file. The onus is on us to put it somewhere that has URL that can be referenced by the notes... on the iPad, iPhone, Android device, or Windows machine. Again, we are already doing it right here, man! May the people who keep saying it cannot or should not be done stop thinking as if the image would be embedded. Again, even this editor allows me to embed an image in the note using a URL.
C'mon, man! It ain't that hard. And with this ability we could greatly enhance the quality of our notes.
Tell Me Again How This is Impossible?
Digression
Who said that notes are just text. This seems like someone trying to make their way of thinking canonical. I draw in the margins.
In His grip by His grace,
That Guy
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