My wife's initial thoughts
I had my wife try out 4.0 today. She used 3.0 very irregularly, and only to read the bible and commentaries. I had the program open to the home page, but had removed news items, blog posts, etc. Here's a listing of her thoughts.
She liked immediately seeing that she could choose a prefered bible and create a reading plan (she really thought the reading plan was cool). She was confused about the lectionary.
She was initially confused about the homepage excerpts. She figured it out after studying it for a minute, but said that all the font sizes for headings should be the same. "366 inspiriing Hymn Stories" has a bigger font size, and her initial impression was that everything else on the home page was about that, since it looked the most important.
She immediately liked the simplicity of the layout, "as opposed to the 10,000 icons on the other version." She said she felt like she knew what to do and didn't need to call and ask for my help. She loved that when she clicked on file, guides, and tools and hovered over an item it gave her a pop-up that explained what it was (On Reading lists, she said that the pop-up shouldn't re-use the term "reading lists." She doesn't know what one is, so telling her that it helps find reading lists isn't that helpful).
She ran a bible word study and was easily able to navigate, click on dictionaries, and read the entries. She likes the little orange circles that pop-up.
She had fun running searches on the library and bibles. She was disappointed that when she hovered over basic, bible, morph, and syntax, there was no pop-up telling her what they were. She had no idea what a "morph" search was.
She liked that she could immediately open a bible by clicking on the picture next to "choose your prefered bible."
She ran a passage guide from the home page and liked that there was a bible and commentary that popped up. She didn't notice the "Enter passage or topic" right away though.
Overall, she said she loves the style. She was actually excited about using the program and felt like she could recommend it to students in the youth group (once the product is released and her legally binding NDA is over 
). She said it was ituitive, easy to use, and she gives it "Two thumbs up!"
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Overall, she said she loves the style. She was actually excited about using the program and felt like she could recommend it to students in the youth group (once the product is released and her legally binding NDA is over
). She said it was ituitive, easy to use, and she gives it "Two thumbs up!"Thank your wife for being a good sport :-)
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I'll cross post this form the Logos 4 Philosophy thread since it's probably more relevant here:
Bob,
If I can give you a bit of encouragement that you're headed in the right direction with 4.0:
My wife is *not* a computer person. She's the kind of person who
gets a new computer and then won't actually do anything with it until
she actually needs to sit down and do some writing. She needs things to
"just work" because she doesn't care to take the time to figure things
out on her own - e.g. she uses two separate browers on her Mac because
Safari & Adobe require some extra setting up for displaying or
downloading PDF's that's normally instant in firefox or ie (e.g. see here).Anyway...
I home left last night for a church meeting while she was doing some
Greek studying in Luke & Ephesians 1. Normally her Greek consists
of having our print copy of BDAG open on the flow with a dozen books
scattered around her (while I sit at my computer using BDAG in Logos).
She's never used Logos at all before and generally avoids using the
computer unless she absolutely must. Well, something must have happened
that absolutely required her to use the computer because when I arrived
home a couple hours later, she had opened up Logos 4 on her own, found
& ran the exegetical guide, opened up Steve Runge's Discourse GNT,
BDAG, BDF, Wallace, and several other resources & was trudging
through her Greek work right there. No problems, no challenges, no
confusion about the interface. It just made sense for her.Mike Aubrey
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Mike,
This wasn't even a fair test...it's like Superman saying that his wife did a pretty good job at lifting a building up.... [:D]
Robert Pavich
For help go to the Wiki: http://wiki.logos.com/Table_of_Contents__
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...found
& ran the exegetical guide, opened up Steve Runge's Discourse GNT,
BDAG, BDF, Wallace, and several other resources & was trudging
through her Greek work right there. No problems, no challenges, no
confusion about the interface. It just made sense for her.Thats what I really like about the new interface. If someone new gets on to Logos and they are told about all this great functionality it has, They know that all that functionality exists within six buttons that appear at the top. to a newbe this would be far less intimidating then the countless icons, menus and menu options that existed within 3.0. While I still think guiding someone through the first couple times they come into the program would be helpful your report from your wife causes me to think...maybe Logos did it right by not providing anything for them to read at first. With six buttons, your options are very limited and what you get when you active them makes a lot of sense.
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maybe Logos did it right by not providing anything for them to read at first.
And after posting that I remembered that the first thing they are met with is the homepage :-)
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true. I had already turned off the homepage by the time my wife got to the program.
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