Ok, assume you recommend L6 Gold to a group of friends and offer to assist them in training and set up. What frameworks would you recommend? What is the Logos standard framework for new users? How can this be improved on with minimal time and maximum benefit? Here is how I understand the New User Logos Framework and my suggestions for a Minimum User Framework. Please provide additional recommendations considering time-benefit and new user training.
Built in Logos Framework:
1. Prioritize the top 5 to 10: English Bibles, Greek Bibles, Hebrew Bible, Commentaries, Lexicons, Bible Dictionaries
2. Go to homepage, enter verse or topic and click go. Let standard Logos workspaces and guides function as designed.
Suggested Minimum Logos Framework:
1. Prioritize some additional resources: Apostolic Fathers for the Ancient Text PG section pop up; Harmonies for the Parallel Passages PG section; Devotional for the Homepage; and Prioritize a Bible Text with apocryphal books for popups within other resources.
2. Set up collections for the following resource types: Bibles and Bible Commentaries.
a. Open Faithlife.com. In the search Faithlife box enter “collections” and join Logos Collections and Commentary Collections.
b. Copy the following from Commentary Collections: Commentaries: Intermediate, Commentaries: Expository; Commentaries: Historical 1750-1950; Commentaries: Technical; Commentaries: Background; Commentaries: One Volume; and Commentaries: Special.
c. Copy the following from Logos Collections: English Bibles, Greek Bibles, Hebrew Bibles (+Dead Sea Scrolls).
3. Set up subject collections to utilize some of the type:monograph..
a. Copy the following from Logos Collections: Bible Background, Hermeneutics, Bible Introductions & Textbooks, Apologetics, Theology (subsections if desired); Preaching, Counsel + Psychology; additional subject collections as desired.
4. Set up a My Passage Guide, using the various commentary categories for commentaries to replace the one in the standard PG; include some of the above collections as desired. Eliminate unwanted sections.
5. Set up a My Exegetical Guide to include collection for Hermeneutics and to adjust Word by Word settings to avoid every word populating.
6. Set up a My Topic Guide to include subject collections desired and remove unwanted sections.
7. Set up Information window to populate with a click rather than hover. Tweak other settings as desired.
8. Review Cited By tool and adjust as necessary.
Now they can go to the homepage enter verse or topic and click go and the standard layout will populate with the “My” guides.
Other frameworks include tagging and rating library. I personally use this framework, but the time it takes is extensive and would be excluded from a minimum Logos framework in my opinion. What other features help a new user enjoy the benefits that power users do without the more intensive time and training required? I made a suggestion that would allow a more efficient use of the library for new users here Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea and we can work within the current framework or frameworks.
Anyway, thanks to all the contributors to the collections on Faithlife.com and those that continually assist both new and experienced users here on the forum. New users have great resources to develop their frameworks and study because of you.
