HELP! Still Baffled and Frustrated by new Notes Tool

Dave, before anything else, I want to thank you for taking the time to read the entire post and respond as you did throughout.

You pointed out four things that I'd like to discuss a little more if you're willing.

1) DEFAULT NOTEBOOK: Thank you for reminding me about the default Notebook assigned to palettes.  A considerable time in the past I set my default for the various palettes to be the "Active Notebook", which I understood would always be the most recent Notebook used for a note or a highlight.  Since all my recent notes and highlights have been in the "Ephesians: Verse by Verse" commentary and I had created a notebook by that title and moved the appropriate notes and highlights to it, and (so I thought) had seen a couple of highlights go there right after creating the notebook a few weeks ago, I would have thought the notes/highlights would be going to the correct notebook.  I hadn't checked that setting though in a long time so I rechecked and see the default is still set to be the "Active Notebook" for the palettes I've been using.  I assume then that my "Ephesians: Verse by Verse" notebook is not the "Active Notebook" as I thought it was.  Any chance you can tell me how to make it so?  

2) RESOURCE FACET:  I had previously checked, double-checked, and triple-checked the resources listed under the Resource facet, and  "Ephesians: Verse by Verse" was not listed.  But I just checked again and then rechecked again.  It is not in the list.  Initially the list consists of four resources.  Clicking the "more" button results in a list of 30 resources and no repetition of the "more" button.  The "Ephesians: Verse by Verse" resource is not in the list.  I do see an entry titled "Ephesians:  Verse by Verse" under the Notebook facet, but not under the Resource facet.  The only way I see it as a resource is by first selecting the "Bible Books" facet and then selecting "Ephesians".  After doing that, I see the commentary title listed under both the "Resource" facet and the "Notebook" facet.  But in the initial facet list, the title only shows up under the "Notebook" facet.

3) SORT ORDER:  I agree that the longer the list of entries under a facet, the less convenient any sort order may become.  But for me, listing the entries alphabetically would be far more useful than listing them by the number of notes/highlights they contain.  In fact, I can't think of any situation/circumstance where that would be useful for me.

4) FAINT SCROLL BAR and use of HOME/END KEYS:  On my Windows 10 laptop there is no faint scroll bar.  But... if I hover over the far right edge of the notes panel a very small symbol/icon pops up consisting of a left arrow followed by two very short vertical parallel lines that are almost touching each other.  If I drag that icon/symbol to the left, I then see a right arrow following the two vertical lines, but after dragging it to the left, the entire icon disappears as soon as I release the mouse.  If I leave the icon at the far right of the panel where I can only see the left arrow and two vertical lines, it will stay visible, but the home, end, pgup, and pgdn keys do nothing.  HOWEVER, if I open a note, then I can see a small vertical gap between the list of notes on the left and the open note on the right.  IF I position the cursor just so-so in that gap (it's very touchy), I can then use the home, end, pgup, and pgdn keys to move through the list of notes.  And if I'm very, very careful with the cursor placement, I can sometimes use the mouse to scroll through the list of notes.  But it's hit-and-miss.  [:(]

I want to thank you again though for your help.  I do feel like l'm making progress.

Dave Hooton said:

I attempted to reproduce your situation using the same resource.

 

Rick Ausdahl said:

When I first started this study a couple of weeks ago, I realized my highlights were not being recorded in a notebook specific to this study and commentary--they were being stored in what I assume is a Logos generated location titled "Ephesians", under the category/facet, "Bible Book", along with highlights I've made in other Ephesians commentaries. 

An entry is generated for each bible book with Notes/Highlights.

Rick Ausdahl said:

 So I created a notebook titled after the commentary--i.e. "Ephesians: Verse by Verse", and moved (copied?) the highlights I'd made in this commentary to the new notebook just created.  But subsequent highlights don't show up in that notebook.

Yes. Your highlights will go to the default Notebook for the Palette (hover over the Palette header in Tools > Highlighting and click the down arrow to see it), and could be distributed over several Notebooks.

Rick Ausdahl said:

So in an effort to locate the subsequent highlights, I look over the various facets listed in the "Notes" tool, and see a facet titled "Resource", and think I'll find an entry for this commentary resource there.  But nada... nothing... zip--no such resource entry. 

The entry is listed as Ephesians: Verse by Verse.

Rick Ausdahl said:

And to make matters worse, the resources that are listed are not listed alphabetically--the order in which they are listed  appears to be based on the number of highlights/notes entries in the resources.  So searching for the desired resource in that list is a pain and I don't see any way to change the order. 

It's not helpful if many resources are listed. The order is fixed.

Rick Ausdahl said:

So I back out of the high-level resource list and click on the Ephesians entry under the facet "Bible Books", and find my commentary title listed under TWO facets--"Resource" and "Notebook".  I select the entry for Grant's commentary under the "Resource" facet, and my most recent highlights (i.e. from this morning) ARE there.

That's one way to narrow the list of Resources and/or Notebooks

Rick Ausdahl said:

QUESTION #1:  Why doesn't Grant's commentary resource show up under the main/high level "Resource" facet along with the other commentary resources that appear in the list?  Why for this particular commentary resource, do I have to select the facet "Bible Books", and then select the entry titled "Ephesians", in order to see it included in a sub-facet there titled "Resource"?

I have few resources, so it was found easily. Did you click on more >> to see other entries? There could be a limit to the number displayed.

Rick Ausdahl said:

QUESTION #2:  Why don't my most recent highlights (from this morning) show up in the "Notebook" I created for this study with Grant's commentary, along with the previous highlights in the commentary that I moved there after creating the notebook?

Answered above. It depends on the Palettes used.

Rick Ausdahl said:

QUESTION #3:  Is there a way to ensure that from one day to the next, my highlights will continue to be automatically poplulated in the "Notebook" I created for the study? 

Change the default in the Palette header. But you will have to change it for another project/study.

Rick Ausdahl said:

1) SORT ORDER AND SCROLLING:  When selecting any of the sort options for highlights/notes (e.g. Date Created, Date Modified), there is no way (that I have discovered) to choose ascending vs descending order.  Nor is there any way ( I have found) to jump the top and bottom of this list, nor is there a scroll bar (that I can see) that one can use to quickly move up and down through the list of entries. 

Sort order is fixed. Click the faint scroll bar below Date Modified and use the Home/End keys (works in Windows).

Rick Ausdahl said:

2) CLOSING AND DELETING NOTES:  After fully opening a note from a list of notes, I don't see any way to close or delete the note without first selecting the vertical 3 dot drop-down menu and selecting the option from there.  I find that cumbersome and would like to see those as options directly available from the note window. 

That is frustrating. It is quicker to select a number of Notes/Highlights and use Delete selected Notes + Apply Changes in the next pane.

I figured out why my searches for "Ephesians" weren't returning "Ephesians: Verse by Verse".

Per the layout of the Notes tab screen shot below, I had been entering my search string in the first/top search window--the long search window just to the right of the icon to open and close the sidebar.  I just realized that the short box just above the filters list... the box containing the word "Filters", also serves as a search box, and that tapping directly on the small magnifying glass on the right side of that box, removes the word "Filters" and activates the search window that is needed to search the various facets.  Entering the "ephesians" search string there does bring up entries for "Ephesians: Verse by Verse" under both the RESOURCE and NOTEBOOK facets.

I feel pretty foolish, but for searching, my eye was continually drawn to the long top search window that says "Search" within it and not to the short box with the word "Filters".  Don't know yet what the top search box is for, but now I know what the problem was.

Also, after a little experimenting, I now know that if I make a Notebook the Active Notebook and leave it open as a part of the layout, that it will remain the Active Notebook for that layout after closing and reopening the layout, AND that on the flip side, the Active Notebook for one layout will not by default remain the Active Notebook if opening a different layout.  Making progress little by little. 

Thanks again to everyone who's been helping me with this.

Dave Hooton said:

Rick Ausdahl said:

4) ...HOWEVER, if I open a note, then I can see a small vertical gap between the list of notes on the left and the open note on the right.  IF I position the cursor just so-so in that gap (it's very touchy), I can then use the home, end, pgup, and pgdn keys to move through the list of notes.  And if I'm very, very careful with the cursor placement, I can sometimes use the mouse to scroll through the list of notes.  But it's hit-and-miss.

Yes, first click on a Note. I can then use the home, end, pgup, and pgdn keys without positioning the cursor.

Thanks Dave.  I'm guessing the reason the keys weren't working for me before, is that I may have been lightly touching/tapping the track pad while the cursor was positioned somewhere within the open/active note on the right, thus taking the focus off the list of notes and placing it on the open note.  Clicking back anywhere in the list of notes on the left does enable the keys without needing to position the cursor just "so-so" within the width of the narrow scroll bar separating the list of notes from the open note.
Boy... what a comedy of errors on my part! [:(]