Can I Recover this Note?

Rick Ausdahl said:

I was reviewing some notes in my NIVAC commentary on Genesis and wanted to change the style of a highlight.  I also had a note attached to the highlighted text.  The note was a result of some web research I had done and I didn't want to lose that, so I was careful to select only the highlighting and not the note icon.  I did a CTRL+SHIFT+K to remove the existing highlight style so I could apply a new style, but the note disappeared along with the highlighting.

I have not found a way to recover the note.  Is there a way?  Also, for future reference, is there a way to select and change a highlight style without losing the note?

OK ...I found "a" way to recover the note, but I don't know if it was the best/easiest way, and, I'm still hoping there's a way to change an existing highlight style directly within the resource, without Logos removing the note icon if there's an actual note in addition to the highlighting.

The method I used to recover the note was to apply the new highlight style I wanted to the text, then right-click on the highlighted text and select "Open annotations".  I could see the note was still in the annotations even though the note icon had disappeared from the text in the commentary, so with the text still highlighted in the commentary, I selected the note in the annotations tab and selected the "Add anchor" option.  I now have the new highlighting style applied and have the note reapplied, but I'm hoping there's a better/right way to do this.

Dave Hooton said:

Rick Ausdahl said:

I was reviewing some notes in my NIVAC commentary on Genesis and wanted to change the style of a highlight.  I also had a note attached to the highlighted text.  The note was a result of some web research I had done and I didn't want to lose that, so I was careful to select only the highlighting and not the note icon.  I did a CTRL+SHIFT+K to remove the existing highlight style so I could apply a new style, but the note disappeared along with the highlighting.

It was a highlight with a note/annotation, so the safest way is to change the style from the Notes tool.

Thank you, Dave--your help is much appreciated. 

I have two follow-up/clarification questions I'm wondering if you can answer.

1. I thought that with Logos 8 and the new notes system, highlights and notes were finally supposed to be independent of one another.  Am I mistaken about that?
2. Is there still no way to highlight a text string and attach a note to the same text string, without Logos subsequently handling the highlight and the note (two separate entities based on function and time of creation) as a single entity? 

Thank you, Graham.  That sounds encouraging, but I must be doing something wrong because L8 still "bundling" and removing the note icon along with the actual highlight when using CTRL+Shift+K on just the highlight.

I replicated the original scenario I posted, but I did it from scratch so everything including the original highlighting and note was done within L8, rather than working with a highlight and note previously entered in L7 and modified in L8.

The steps I took were as follows:

1. I selected the text and used the "Y" shortcut key I had previously set up to apply a yellow highlight to the selected text.
2. I moved the cursor off the highlighted text and did a mouse-click elsewhere to take the focus off the selected text (just in case leaving the text highlighted was a problem/factor).
3. I reselected the highlighted text, did a right-click on it and selected the option to add a note.  I added the note, then again moved the cursor to take the focus off the selected text.
4. I reselected the highlighted text and did a CTRL+Shift+K.  The note icon disappeared along with the highlighting.
5. I again moved the cursor to take the focus off the selected text, then reselected the text and reapplied a yellow highlight using the "Y" shortcut key.  The highlighting was there once again but the note icon was still nowhere to be seen.

From my experience, L8 treats the highlighting and note as separate entities when creating them, but as a single entity when attempting to remove just the highlighting.  Do I need to follow a different process when creating the note and highlight, in order to be able to remove the highlighting without removing the note icon?  I realize now that the actual note still exists even though the note icon disappears, but that's kind of like having a footnote at the end of a chapter or book without any indicator in the text that there is a footnote.  Basically, it becomes a note I'll never see.

Graham Criddle said:

Rick Ausdahl said:

I realize now that the actual note still exists even though the note icon disappears, but that's kind of like having a footnote at the end of a chapter or book without any indicator in the text that there is a footnote

Actually it doesn't exist assuming it was completely within the text you selected prior to Ctrl-Shift-K

Graham, I think that's the part that confuses me.  I.e.  The actual note "does" in fact still exist within the notes tool "after" doing the Ctrl+Shift+K which removed both the highlighting and the note icon from the text.  Per my second post, that's how I recovered the note after applying the new highlighting style.  I.e. I opened the notes tool, found the note that had been tied to the note icon that disappeared from the text after doing the Ctrl+Shift+K to erase the original highlight style, then I used the "Add anchor" option to reattach the note to the text where it was prior to erasing the old highlighting.  The CTRL+Shift+K removes the note icon from the resource text, but leaves the note in the notes tool/database.
I'm afraid I've done a poor job either in explaining the scenario or in understanding some of the replies--in fact maybe in both. Sorry about that. [:$]