My Problem with Factbook

This is a really helpful response - I'll try and offer some perspectives.

But... I look at Logos Search and Factbook as two different functions, wrong or right. To some extent, Search should give me everything it can find on the item searched for (under the hierarchy I choose) which I hope can be narrows a bit. Factbook, at least in my mind should be more precise in what it returns to me. 

In my mind, after I build my tags for the above, then Factbook would definitely be something I could click on a word and get more precise information about that word within the confines of how I use the bible in my ideolog. 

At the moment what you are describing isn't how the software is designed to work - which might be contributing to some of the disappointment I think you are having with it.

Search is intended to find every occurence of a search term - and this can be constrained in various ways - whereas Factbook is designed to provide general information about a particular item and cannot be modified by us as users.

Adding Factbook tags does not provide a way to modify the information the Factbook returns - rather it provides a way of linking existing Factbook entries to words you come across in books.

You seem to be looking for some sort of mechanism to customise information returned from Logos tools - and this is currently done in Guides as opposed to the Factbook Tool.

For example.... in 1Tim 2:1, there is a word "bishop". In my ideology or mindset, as I read the bible, in my understanding, a bishop, elder, a pastor, an overseer, a shepherd are all the same function in the church, the qualities or qualifications of which are given in 1 Timothy 2:1-7 and Titus 1:1-4 which apply to all those men.

So when I click on one of those words listed above in the N.T. then Factbook should maybe come up with where each of those words are in the bible, maybe meaning of how each word is used. That would make Factbook more of a precise search than it is now. 

I thought, wrong or right, that maybe when I click on the word "bishop" to maybe have a drop down menu show whereby I could choose:  1. Meaning of the word 2. Where all it is used in the bible. 3. Where it is used in my library. 4. My personal tags for the words listed above. 

This is an interesting example

I'm using the word in 1 Tim 3:2 (as it has more tags than in 1 Tim 3:1) and you can see it has two Factbook tags - and I show the entry associated with the second one in the right. In the translated as section you can see all the Greek terms that have been tagged with that Factbook tag and where they appear in the biblical text.

Alternatively you could run a search on the term from the right-click context menu to find every occurrence

And you could customize this search if you wish - choosing to search in a set of Bibles of your choice or within a particular range - such as the Pauline Epistles.

Alternatively you could use a different option in the context menu and just search for places where the same "sense" (another Logos tag) is present

We can't control this type of tagging associated with the words in the text but we can choose how we make use of them.

Alternatively you might come across a Factbook article that you think is helpful in understanding the term - such as Christian elder - which hasn't been added as a Factbook tag to the word. But you see it has a useful link to the Bible Sense Lexicon which shows where words with this meaning are present. You could add this as a Factbook Tag to the word to make it easily accessible to you

And this goes back, I think, to the idea you raised above

With tags, it appears to me at least, that I can now "personalize" what Factbook gives back to me when I click on one of the words I have tagged. Especially if there is some sort of drop down menu when I click on a word.  

If the word has multiple Factbook tags supplied by Logos you can click it to open another panel listing those terms allowing you to choose which Factbook article you want

We can't do that with tags that have supplied by users but they can be selected from the context menu which allows the required article to be accessed

And as an alternative to all of the above have you thought about using one of the Guides - such as a Topic Guide - which might provide a good starting point for exploring particular themes. You can customize these Guides so they only show the sections you are interested in

Please note I am not suggesting that all of this is perfect - as Mark noted above this is an area Logos is looking at closely - but I wanted to try and explain a bit more how things work out at the moment in order to provide some options. And maybe to help explore how things could be improved.

Edit: Could we just stick to that issue?

My proposal to limit the resources used was a serious suggestion to solve the problem you mentioned regarding an overwhelming amount of data. Some Guide sections already take this approach in that you can restrict the guide section to a collection and have multiple occurrences of the section pointing to different collections or set to different parameters.

how would you improve Factbook?  

but my problems with Factbook are more in the incomplete nature of many of the entry making it unpredictable whether or not going to Factbook is worth the effort.

My first step would be to complete the incomplete entries ... and straighten out the hierarchical index which I've been told is underway. This would include adding the missing LCV items such as the Talmudic rabbis and examining the theological vocabulary for synonyms in other traditions.

My second step would be to add to the appropriate sections, the ability to select the resources used as is done in the Guides.