Exporting Notes and Highlights: Can it export the VERSE associated with each note or highlight?

Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas Member Posts: 4
edited November 21 in English Forum

When I'm reading/studying my physical paper/ink Bible it's always been my habit to HIGHLIGHT verses, either with a yellow highlighter or just a pencil mark in the margin, and occasionally some scribbled notes next to these verses.

Of course I see where I can basically perform both those tasks in Logos, but there seems to be one shortcoming: When I want to EXPORT these notes the exported form does not include the VERSE REFERENCE.

I would REALLY like to be able to periodically export all my notes/highlights to a text file mostly as a form of backup... I want it to become my permanent "marked Bible", and I don't want it permanently locked inside of proprietary software!

To illustrate what I'm saying, see below.

First is a screenshot of my sample notes, below that is the text export of these notes (this is from the text export, but while the other formats are prettier, they also lack the desired information).

As you can see in the screenshot, in the app you can see that the verse associated with each note or highlight is included, but as you can see in the text export of this same data below that there are no verse references.

It seems like an extremely useful bit of information!

1) Is there a way to export my notes and highlights such the associated verses are displayed?

2) If not, is there a way to request this feature? Or is that a hopeless wish?

Thanks!
Bob T

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Notes

35 But someone will say, q“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”
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29 Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?

This is a sample note for 1 Cor 15:29

How is it?
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Can faith save him?
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Can that faith save him?
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10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel mcried out to the LORD. 11 nThen they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12 oIs this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

Better to serve Egyptians than to die in wilderness
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Exported from Logos Bible Software, 8:45 PM May 6, 2021.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,143

    bumping for attention 3

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  • Dan Householder
    Dan Householder Member Posts: 4

    This is my first time here, sorry if this isn't the correct way to respond.

    I use a cumbersome work around. 

    FIRST select "ALL" - "Notebook" - "Resource" as shown below

    Then select "Full Preview" (not "Default" as shown below)

    With the notes displayed in "Preview" mode...

    First I Ctrl + A, which (theoretically)  selects all of the notes, then Ctrl + V to paste them into a Word document. 

    This actually only gives me 25 pages of notes, WITH REFERENCES, pasted into Word, roughly Revelation through Ephesians

    Then, to get the rest of the notes. I MANUALLY select, copy and paste about 10 pages of notes at a time into the Word document. I have to repeat the select, copy, paste process 4 or 5 times to get all of my notes pasted into Word.

    THIS IS FRUSTRATING, THERE REALLY HAS TO BE AN EASIER WAY TO DO THIS! 

    I hope this helps!

  • Bob Thomas
    Bob Thomas Member Posts: 4

    That does work - clunky as you say - but effective, and useful until (IF) they ever make it easier. Thanks!