Any tips for using notes?

I'm not sure if this is what you want to achieve, but see if this is similar to what you are looking for:

1) Create a note that isn't attached to a verse (where there are no verse anchors).

2) Beside the "New Note" button, click on the 3 vertical dots:

3. Select "Copy location as: URL":

4. Create a new (second) note that would be anchored to a verse (I didn't anchor mine here since it's just a test note).

5. Highlight the text in this note that you want to link back to the first note.

6. Click the link button shown in the screen shot below and insert the URL copied from the first note:

This doesn't link to a specific location in the original note, just to the note itself. 

You can also use tags, labels and a selection of various note/notation icons and icon colors to categorize your notes, or place them in Notebooks. Hopefully others will chime in with a better explanation/recommendation.

Robert Taylor said:

Thanks.  That certainly looks like it will work, and I'll try it out.

I guess one of the questions I have is: Is this the most efficient way of linking notes and information together, or is there a better way I should consider?  Or even just a different way?  Sometimes we get stuck in habitual patterns, and don't try to find different ways of doing things that may actually work better.  

I wouldn't be able to give you the best methodology since it's a personal preference. Maybe some others can give you better guidance.

I've had to do exactly what you're trying to avoid -- go back and make revisions to my organization. I think it's just the nature of the thing -- the larger and more complex your note collection gets, at some point you revisit how you have them organized. I also haven't used the label functionality with notes yet and am probably missing out on the benefit for those. I have made extensive use of tags and anchors and have started to use a system of different icons and colors to delineate between them as they appear in the text. For example, my personal note icons are green, notes that I took from specific studies are orange, Psalter text that I've added to notes are red, etc. Part of the color selections had to do with how visible they are on iPad and on the phone. And now I use a different icon for notes that span multiple verses so I know what they are at a glance. I also have cross-reference specific notes, and I use the "link" icon for those in yellow, with each note anchored to all of the pertinent cross-references.

I've also placed some notes in notebooks. If you want to share notes with others in a Faithlife group, I believe they have to be in notebooks. But I've also created a few notebooks for some notes I just want to find quickly without having to filter on tags, or just as another grouping that I didn't want to tag.

But I'm still new to Logos myself, so I would consider my organization to be immature. Hopefully this gives you a few ideas to get started, at least. If you search through the forums, there are some good ideas for how to create subcategories and attributes for tags and labels that could aid in your searches. I would recommend those before you get too invested in your organizational system.