I have been trying to use concept mapping to organize ideas and propositions for teaching. I had the idea that I might be able to link concepts to resources in a nested way to keep my visual teaching presentations clean and organized, but with the ability to drill down into details easily.
An application that incorporates many of the ideas that I would like to see in LOGOS is CMAP Tools https://cmap.ihmc.us/cmaptools/. It allows you to link and nest resources and organize ideas into a visual representation of propositional statements. This capability inside LOGOS would be very useful for managing and presenting the vast amounts of information (like a notes file or a clippings file, but more like a concept or mind map.) It would also be useful for simplifying sermon prep in a way that the brain can process quickly and logically which might lead to better sermons and more efficient use of tools already in LOGOS.
My wishlist of things that I would like to do beyond what CMAP tools does:
- Hyperlink and open specific locations in resources or document files in my Logos library while also keeping the ability to hyperlink to external resources or external files, websites, or files on my computer.
- launch videos, audio, or slides (CMAP can do this, but not inside LOGOS. I would have to create documents or content that I can park in a file location outside of LOGOS)
- I haven't played with Proclaim, so I don't know what it can open, but I would like it if a concept map inside Logos could drive a presentation (i.e. slides on an extended monitor) in a non-linear way.
Please have your development team take a look at the concept map or mind-mapping idea. Many of the elements already exist in Logos (ie sentence diagram tool, clippings tool, notes tool), and a concept map with nested nodes that's easy to create and intuitive to use could be quite a handy tool. It could be used as a shell for organizing information. Logos users could use a tool like this to organize propositions, think through the many ideas more logically, present them in a visual way for classroom engagement, or use it in sermon preparation.
Another idea I had about how to do what I wanted was to incorporate some sort of plugin framework that would allow external applications to hyperlink into Logos and vice versa. That would get a lot of things done, even if it had to be through a third application like Office, but might be also be unwieldy and a security risk I guess.
Thanks!
John Schreier
