lost an important feature

I asked if I could run Logos 7 as a separate program from 8. I haven't found anything that is an improvement, but then I just do simple stuff.

But Logos 8 removed a feature that I think is very important and should actually be improved.

When I do a passage guide, I get a long list of commentaries. There used to be a feature where I could highlight a star if I found that commentary very helpful. But very simply, very often in any kind of search or guide, you will have a lot of resources you will look at, You need some way to mark a resource after you have used it, otherwise if you repeat the same search, as in sermon prep, you won't remember which resources you already looked at and which were helpful and which were not. In 7, you had the star you could highlight. But a similar feature also be available for theologies, monographs, etc. You can waste a lot of time opening resources you already looked at and finding that that one wasn't a helpful one.

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PetahChristian

(Passage guide) "Commentary stars will likely be migrated to Favorites" which may or may not help for your particular use case.

As Adam mentioned, he is very interested in feedback on that proposal.

Larry Craig

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1014151#Comment_1014151

I don't know who Adam is or how to contact him. I did discuss this with customer service today. They walked me through the favorites thing, and that absolutely would not work. It would be filled with hundreds of favorites in no time all in one big list, which you would have to work through in another tab where before you could see immediately which commentaries were helpful.

The feature needs to be expanded so that whenever you do a search, you can somehow mark a resource as either being read, useful, not useful,etc. If you are doing research or a sermon, you will be repeating searches or guides, and you will end up looking at books you already went through before. A softwareprogram is supposed to save your time and not waste it.

Thank you

David Thomas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1014155#Comment_1014155

I don't know who Adam is or how to contact him.

The link that Petah posted contains a link on how to message Adam directly. As Adam mentions in that post, a way to "Star or remove a commentary to mark it as helpful/unhelpful for the passage" is under consideration. As others have posted the need for this feature, I would suggest you contact Adam since he is the "Product Manager, Logos desktop application" and needs to hear from us how much this feature is wanted.

PetahChristian

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1014155#Comment_1014155

I don't know who Adam is or how to contact him.

Adam is the Product Manager for Logos Bible Software. You can contact him via Faithlife.com.

Larry Craig

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1014160#Comment_1014160

thank you

PetahChristian

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1014155#Comment_1014155

somehow mark a resource as either being read, useful, not useful,etc.

Here are a couple of unrelated techniques which may or may not be useful.

You can use the library's star rating to indicate whether you've read a book yet (e.g. 1 star = unread), as well as rating its usefulness. Since the library can be filtered by subject and sorted by rating, you can see at a glance which books you've read might have been particularly useful. Tagging books can also serve a similar function (e.g., to-read).

Another library technique which you probably use is prioritization. Prioritizing useful resources higher, makes them show up at the top of certain guide sections.

You can also combine techniques like ratings or tags to build collections of useful (or unread) commentaries or other resources. For example, you could search a collection of resources you hadn't gone through already, to see if their contents might be useful.

The closest "solution" for me to quickly know whether I've studied something before is via highlights. For example, I might highlight a lemma headword to know that I'd previously done a bible word study (and read a particular lexicon's information about that word).

I understand that none of these ways exactly replace what the commentary stars offered at a glance. Hoping you and Adam can come up with an approach which allows you be more efficient as you use Logos!

Larry Craig

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1014193#Comment_1014193

Thank you. I don't see any of these options helping much. I did think that by highlighting the text of an open resource would immediately tell me that I found something useful here. I also thought about adding a note to an open resource with the date I looked at it, etc. This would be more for monographs though than commentaries.

I wrote Adam. We'll see what he does.

thanks again

Larry