Notes

I rarely use notes features within Bible study software for reasons like this.



I have a computer at home and one at the church and keeping notes in sync can be a chore. I have a sync method set up for the Mac version but, alas, it has no notes. Also I have been known to reload frequently and backing up and restoring notes can be a pain. That's one reason I love the sync feature in Logos 4, I think with this I will be using the built-in notes features a lot more, particularly with the ability to write notes on so many areas.



But importing old notes is vital. Logos may have addressed this somewhere else, but I hope there are plans to import notes and such from v3. If notes do have to be dropped from version to version that diminishes their usefulness. But I would really be surprised if Logos does not provide some method, possibly manual, probably automatic, to load old data like that.

Notes are very important for me as Sunday School teacher and seminary student.  Also the ability to mark up books.  Sure do need to see both along with an import feature

Philip Spitzer said:

.this needs to happen. It doesn't need to be out at the release of 4.0, and I don't need a thumbs up or down tomorrow or I'll go postal, but I would appreciate knowing Logos' position on this one at release.

I can't remember where the thread is, or if my memory is playing other tricks on me Philip, but I seem to recall Bob mentioning in another thread that they are "listening" to us on the notes thing and are considering it. 

I believe his concern was that the structures are now so different that importing would be able to bring in text but not necesarily things like bold / italics/ numbering etc.  would we be able to live with that?

I can't really answer that question because I've only got a few dozen notes in Logos 3 because I have another way of taking notes that works for me. 

Ah, found the quote in This Thread: "Old notes and markup from Logos 3"

Bob Pritchett said:

We do not have a 3.0 notes import
at this time, either. If we implement a 3.0 notes import, there will be
some problems -- we're using a different rich-text engine, so some
formatting would be lost of messed up. Also, many books are being
re-built for 4.0, which would prevent some (but not all) highlighting
from lining up in the newer resources.

We're open to your feedback on how much you want the important/can live with the imperfections.

 

tcblack said:

I can't remember where the thread is, or if my memory is playing other tricks on me Philip, but I seem to recall Bob mentioning in another thread that they are "listening" to us on the notes thing and are considering it. 

I did remember Bob's comments on this and I know he is listening. I also can understand the difficulties of importing and why Logos would be reluctant to do it (lots of man hours so that a low percentage of users can utilize a tool they create one time, after about 2 years, the tool becomes pretty much useless.). From what I heard from users on the newsgroups Notes were not that popular because, by Bob's admission, they were kept very basic.

Should importation not be provided my reluctance to use the notes would not flow out of my distrust in Logos so much as my acknowledgment of a weakness in the "digital library" concept. The value of those man hours creating the tool must not be measured by how much people will use the tool but by the contribution it makes to the "digital library" concept.

I've tried to exploit the NOTES in Logos since the 2.x days but have found it to be quite frustrating. 

I will try to say this as nicely as possible with the most positive intention for success in L4 Notes: it looks nicer and friendlier with the toolbar, but the implementation - in actual usage - seems worse than in v.3. 

In v. 3 I had resorted to first create my wife in my word process than bring in the rich formatting into Logos notes. I was able to format the hyperlinks with a click of a button.

In v. 4 I can also bring in notes from the word processor, but:

1. Hyperlinks do not work.
2. On long notes the focus moves from where I am working to a previous location. It is unbearable. (I'll put up a video to show you what I mean if needed)

ha!!!! I have no idea why I wrote that but I have to admit I need Logos to start spell checking (ahem, spell/grammar check feature request, please) my posts! Please change "wife" to "notes" (they do seem so similar don't they?) Best Don Knotts Impression (Ghost of Mr. Chicken): "Let me clarify, Thank You" [:$]

P.S. - My wife is so very much on my mind. I love you (Julie) my beautiful Note!

To the rest, we recently brought in our 6th precious blessing from our God (Psa. 127) and I delivered our daughter (Kerilyn Kanani) at home (in a birthing pool). I purposely wore my Logos Bible Software T-shirt ($1.00) for the event, but alas my oldest daughter forgot to take the "marketing" shot.

Update: Pic included (wish I had it with my sweet baby girl...her chord was just not long enough!)