Can you search Note Icons

Agreed. This would be really helpful!

Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:

We have a spec for a facet that allows you to drill down by icon, color, and highlight style, but I'm not sure when we'll implement it. I agree it would be really handy.

This is one of those things that you might not know you need, but when you get it and use it, you're like, "Man, I coulda used this a long time ago!"

I think this is on this subject....

One of the things I do is tag all my notes as to what they are about... "Apo for Apologetics". "Chu for Church", "Sav for Salvation", "Lea for Leaders", etc and etc. You can have many tags on a note.

Then I can search for that "topic" in my notes and all the notes( and verses for that topic my notes are anchored to a verse) for that topic appears. I use about 25 categories and it works well with me. It's a take off from "Sharpening the Sword by Al Pickering" which I got into some years back. It has served me well... 

Also, within the topic.... I have "Prev: verse and Next : verse

This was the closest I could get to the question I have. For years I was able to sort my notes by icon type, but now when I try to do that, I can't find any way to make it work.  What happened???  It would make my life a lot easier if i could sort them that way as certain icons go to certain types of notes and there is no other way to find them as they're not based on anyt of the other things you can search for.  Was this ability removed?  if so can it be returned?

MJ. Smith said:

That is a reasonable request although I don't recall ever being able to do it. Add it to Roadmap | Faithlife and drum up support. I would expect it to e well received.

Well fine ... except hat I do not know what it is about. What is this actually supposed to do? What does "for every note I use a Note Icon to identify my study notes..." mean? different icon for each of a few hundred notes? how and for what purpose would such a search be used?
Could someone describe a scenario in which one would want to search for a note icon? 

I am using different notebooks for different "categories", each with its particular icon ...via visual filter settings in bible etc icons of relevant notes from a notebook are shown and note easily accessed. 

I used to be able to sort my notes by icons and would like to be able to do so again. I wasn't aware that I'd need to give a reason for how I use note icons or why I would need to sort them by icon.

Each note that you create in Logos can have an icon. There are lots of choices -- one that looks like a post-it note; one that looks like a paperclip; one that looks like a quotation bubble; etc. Many of us use a categorization system to identify what that icon represents. For example, all notes primarily authored by me that are analytical get the post-it icon. Excerpts from somebody else get marked with a paperclip if the note is doctrinal, the square-quotation bubble from something that is more devotional/application based, or the quotation bubble for pithy quotations I want to keep handy. I also do what @MJ does with questions, project notes, and the like.

The request here is as to whether there is a means of searching for specific icons, filtering for them, or sorting by them.

You aren't looking for the "why" answer, but the rest of this thread does a pretty good job of explaining how such a search feature would be useful to those of us who classify by note icon (and color!).

All:

I would also like to ask if we could get an update?

Being able to use different types of note icons, at this point, is really not a super-helpful feature. If we could search/filter, however, based on the type of note icon/color and also the presence (or lack) of an icon--perhaps baked into the Docs Search--then that would be a very powerful feature for organizing/searching our library.

Thank you! I looked for it, but couldn't seem to find it. I've voted there and made a plea to (hopefully) push things forward!