Importing BIbleWorks notes to Logos 9

I am a longtime BibleWorks user, finally trying to move over fully to Logos. Perhaps most treasured was BibleWorks' ability to have instant notes of any size on individual verses, to create or to display.

I am debating whether it's better to merge all my notes into MS Word documents, or use Logos notes.

In favor of the former: all the features of a word processor, and one unified document. Against: 66 documents! Have to open for each book! Probably too much for one document...or it would be ungainly.

So I tried importing notes to Logos, using these instructions: https://bit.ly/3KtDdZq.

I tried it twice. Each time it imported the same 1503 files, then stopped. I'm sure I have thousands of files. This only got me the "1"s -- 1 Kings but not 2 Kings; 1 Chronicles but not 2 Chronicles; 1 John but not 2 or 3 John.

And then there's the issue of the User Lexicon notes. Sigh.

I welcome any and all helpful thoughts on this, particularly if you're also a former BW user. Thanks!

Find more posts tagged with

Desktop App

Comments

Ben

Hi Dan, I remember your name from the BW forums! I too mourn its loss.

I did import all my notes, but because of mismatched functionality, I lost, in essence, chapter notes and lexical notes. It's been quite a while since I did it, and can't recall if I had any real issues. I'll try to take a look again.

Ben

Hi Dan, I remember your name from the BW forums! I too mourn its loss.

Dan Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1220989#Comment_1220989

Thank you, Ben!

Dan Phillips

Update of sorts: I tried it again on a much faster network, and got 1504 files — a gain of one.

Dan Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1221016#Comment_1221016

Another update: I called Help. They said the notes import function was only for Logos 8; there was an unstated expiration date, and it is not supported for 9. So me and my thousands of notes are just out of luck.

Logos is 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 a powerful application, it boggles my mind that little relatively-stripped-down BibleWorks so decimated it in this one crucial way, and still does.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

My best guess is that one of your files failed to convert, and that's preventing the rest of them from being converted. You could try importing them in batches of 100 or 500 (by moving them to a different folder and/or using "import BibleWorks notes from C:\path\to\folder") until you find the one (or ones) that aren't working. That should at least let you bring most of your BibleWorks notes over into Logos.

Looking at the importer source code, it appears that there might be limitations with importing notes attached to:

Daniel (Greek)
Joshua (A)
Judges (A)
Tobit (S)
Susanna (TH)
Daniel (TH)
Bel and the Dragon (TH)

If you have notes on passages for those books, you may have to exclude them.

Dan Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1221089#Comment_1221089

With equal sincerity: Thanks!; and Yikes!

[:)]