New Search Tool is unearthing gems in my library
Thanks to the good folks at Faithlife for all the good work on improving the Search tool. It's opening up my library. I've unearthed several gems in my library this week alone.
Example from today: this Harvard Classics resource has hymn lyrics in it and I had no idea. I was looking for John Dryden's translation of Veni Creator Spiritus in All search in this came up. I had it in the cloud. It has now been downloaded. This was after finding the original Latin text in the Dictionary of Hymnology (which I knew I had and already had downloaded). I like to have all my resources with hymns downloaded so the Harvard Classics resource was a good find. I also found this devotional by searching for "God delights" in the Books tab, which gave me the idea to look up the hymn in the first place.
This might seem like a minor thing but it's a big deal for me. Search is so much better to use with the updates (and bug fixes) in v22. I can better focus my search results on downloaded resources without losing sight of my cloud resources. Somehow my search results seem more relevant. Not sure how it all works but it does.
Keep up the good work. I'm really enjoying the improvements in Logos 22 (or the software formally known as Logos 10 lol)--especially to the Books tab in Search. And a big thanks for all the bug fixes. Carry on.
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Example from today: this Harvard Classics resource has hymn lyrics in it and I had no idea.
Thanks for the heads-up! I have now tagged it "Hymns" in my Library.
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Example from today: this Harvard Classics resource has hymn lyrics in it and I had no idea.
Thanks for the heads-up! I have now tagged it "Hymns" in my Library.
I also plan to tag resources with Hymns that aren't listed as type:hymnal.
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I also plan to tag resources with Hymns that aren't listed as type:hymnal.
Also check subject:hymn
Dave
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I also plan to tag resources with Hymns that aren't listed as type:hymnal.
Also check subject:hymn
Thanks, I found three more resources by including subject.
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I also plan to tag resources with Hymns that aren't listed as type:hymnal.
Also check subject:hymn
Thanks, I found three more resources by including subject.
That subject is not available for Faithlife eBooks. Tagging has helped me organize those, but I have not been able to keep up with the flood of new books into my Library, so my tagging system is pretty lame.
BTW, I differentiate between resources containing hymns (my "Hymns" collection) and resources about hymns (my "Hymnology" collection). And of course there's some overlap
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BTW, I differentiate between resources containing hymns (my "Hymns" collection) and resources about hymns (my "Hymnology" collection). And of course there's some overlap
Good point. I thought about that but I noticed a lot of books about hymns will have at least some hymn lyrics in them. I just want to be able to search for hymn lyrics where ever they may be.
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BTW, I differentiate between resources containing hymns (my "Hymns" collection) and resources about hymns (my "Hymnology" collection). And of course there's some overlap
Good point. I thought about that but I noticed a lot of books about hymns will have at least some hymn lyrics in them. I just want to be able to search for hymn lyrics where ever they may be.
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we need a hymn label ... something that for years we had reason to think was coming. What came met a totally different need.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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we need a hymn label ... something that for years we had reason to think was coming. What came met a totally different need.
By working with the team that produces 'Proclaim' it should be possible for us to leverage the 'Song Select' subscriptions in order to have an almost universal hymn book.
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Mike
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