Am I missing something?

Michael Prenzler
Michael Prenzler Member Posts: 37
edited November 20 in English Forum

Hi All,

I am not going to whine about how Logos has broken Notes: things change and I can live with that Smile.

However, I am struggling to understand the new thought processes behind the new Notes, and would appreciate some education (I have looked at the videos, but I'm still not "getting" it).

My workflow (adapted from how I used L7) up until now has been as follows:

  • I have a "sermon prep template" Notebook which I duplicate on the "documents.logos.com" web page.
  • I then go to the Notes tool, search for the copied Notebook and rename it according to the sermon text (e.g. as below: 1 Cor 12:12-31).
  • The template consists of two Notes: Exegesis and Homiletical Meditation, which I populate as I do my sermon prep.
  • If I come across some useful information relating to the Biblical text I create a Note in the Notebook anchored to the text of the Bible (usually the ESV translation). I do this so that I have all my research in one place for easy reference in the future. The resulting Notebook typically looks like this:

So far so good. If I know what Notebook I stored the Notes in I can run a search and find it again as shown above.

My "problem" occurs if I want to access the Notebook from the ESV. As you can see from the image below, I have created 3 Notes, all stored in the sermon prep Notebook for 1 Cor 12:12-31.

When I click on the e.g. "division" note the Notes tool opens up and displays the note correctly. It even tells me that it belongs to the correct Notebook. However, it does not display all the related notes, which was the whole purpose (in my thinking) of linking the note to the Notebook in the first place. Instead, I get 8000 unrelated results! What am I missing?

The only way I can find to get back to my Notebook is to open the side bar, manually type in "1 Cor 12", and go from there. It's doable but inefficient.

The biggest benefit I have derived from past versions of Logos is being able to link related information so that, no matter the entry point, I can easily access it all again with a few clicks. So, during my seminary days I was able to e.g. link course notes (in a personal book) with the Biblical text with notes taken during lectures with quotes from other Logos books, all within an old "Notes" document. L8 also allows this linking, but following the links seems to be harder.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks,

Michael

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