How to Deal with Workflow Notes

That is my problem too. For me this is the reason I do not use these workflows, because I do not want my Bible text to become cluttered with rows and rows of notes icons. It's really sad that that such a useful tool does have such rough ends. With a little bit more effort it could be engineered to perfection.

Dennis Davis said:

how has anyone that uses workflows organized them to keep the visual clutter to a minimum? 

I remove the Note icon for notes that are workflow steps, but keep icons for my notes anchored to sections of text.

1. click on the triangle next to the note icon

2. change the icon to "none"

3. If you select a group of icons (click first one, hold down shift key, click the last one) then there is an additional step to "apply style to all notes"

Dennis Davis said:

I like the concept of workflows which has actually helped me become more proficient in some of the tools that I don't often use.  

Workflows are crutches to help you to learn to walk with the software and apply a study methodology. After about half a dozen to a dozen max uses you should be looking to throw away those crutches and use the software and methodology independent of the workflow. Become reliant upon them and you will walk with a limp for the rest of your life because of all the excess notes they create in your shoe. 

Note: my personal view and how I approach workflows and thus deal with OP’s issue. It is ok to use workflows on permanent basis if you do choose.

Mark Barnes said:

DIsciple II said:

Workflows are crutches to help you to learn to walk with the software and apply a study methodology. After about half a dozen to a dozen max uses you should be looking to throw away those crutches and use the software and methodology independent of the workflow. Become reliant upon them and you will walk with a limp for the rest of your life because of all the excess notes they create in your shoe. 

You're assuming that you haven't created your own workflow with your own methodology…

No assumption on my part Mark, seems to me only only on yours that I would see a workflow I created any different to one created by another. To me even less reason to rely upon a workflow if it was my own methodology. I might start with someone else’s workflow, learn from it and then adapt it by creating my own but once I had shaped and refined that after half to a dozen usages I would still step away from the workflow document and use the software and methodology without it. 

But as I clarified previously this is my approach and nothing wrong with relying upon workflows - others or your own - to do your bible study if that is what works for you. I understand we are all different personalities and approach things differently.