Markups & Highlighting

OK that is a question I have had and could not find answers too.  I also have other iPhone Bible software that will allow me to do that but not in Logos.  To be honest, I was thinking about having an iPad and using that inside of my laptop.  I could use it for reading the bible, comparing translations on verses, have my notes and my sermon.  Would be great if you could just create a link in the message, hit it and it would turn to that page in the Bible.  Has anyone been able to do that yet?

I didn't know you could do that.  I HATE the new home page and wish it was more like the old 3 version.  I am so lost on 4.  I was thinking it would be so nice to have a bible open, have my notes there as well.. and for my next point, just click on a link and it will take me to my next note and verse.   I am not so much caring about iPhone as I am for i Pad. However after looking at HP's possible pad, slate or whatever, I think that maybe worth waiting for.  I should be able to install the full software and it will have a USB 2 port as well as a camera and WiFi and 64 gb drive.  Will run windows 7 and be like a laptop with just the screen.  That would be nice to be able to put the whole program on.  But anyway.. I am more interested in the i Pad and since they do not have a forum for that, I figured someone may know.

Just adding my $.02 to the discussion. At first I really wanted my notes to sync to the iPhone app. It would be nice to read notes but I don't see myself typing a lot of notes on my iPhone, I'd have to toggle between what I was reading and what I'm typing.

Then over time I realized how I was using the mobile app. More as a book reader than researching topics. For me I'd prefer to have a simple highlighting tool. I'd even be happy with it just being available in books that are not the Bible. So by "clicking' on a word would bring up a highlight option instead of search. I'd be happy with it being a mobile style so I can search for it back on the PC/Mac and type up my notes. 

One more for highlights and markups.  I'm not a big fan of Olive Tree.  (I like Mantis better for the UI.  I don't like split screen when space is so limited, Mantis has a cool approach.  But Mantis lacks resources.)  Obviously my greatest investment in resources has been in Logos.  Would be great to have the highlighting.   And have it sync with the highlights I create on the desktop.

Any suggestions on how to handle choosing from large highlight palettes on a small iPhone screen? Let you pick a highlight and then just use that one through a quick UI? Or make it easy to pick from, say, your last three used?

This is where I believe more control of the mobile versions in the desktop version is needed. For instance, the desktop version information page for a resource should have "available in mobile format" on it with the  option to download, view, or hide it. it would be the same for highlighting. in order for a highlight to be available on a mobile app a box must be checked stating "make this available on mobile devices." A single control in the program settings would hide or display these settings, defaulting to hide.

so it would work like this. When I buy my IPad I would go into program settings on my desktop and select "show mobile options?" If I do not change this setting to yes then everything would be available on my mobile device. If I change it to yes options become available throughout the program. Reading plans could be deselected from showing up on mobile devices through the resource panel, as could resources. Right clicking on "Reading Plan" in the "File" tab would have an option that can be toggled somehow to select all reading plans for mobile use or select all to turn off mobile use. Same option would be on the highlighting panel.

That would at least allow someone to easily "clean up" the clutter on the mobile device.

I agree with Peter... one simple highlighter should be sufficient first time around.

But the important thing in addition to highlighting is making sure it syncs to the computer.

Ditto!!!  Pretty please, Logos.  This one is really valuable.

Peace Be With All on Logos Forums!

I am glad people agree with me on the importance of just getting the basic highlighting functionality working on iPhone as soon as possible - fancier highlighting, and even notes, which would be awkward to do much on a small iPhone anyway, are a much lower priority. 

The voices are getting more shrill...Logos, give us highlighting, or we die![:D]

May the LORD bless and keep you all

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Bob, thanks for keeping us up to date on this. Many of us are looking for highlighting, notes and clippings. I find myself using my iPad for reading more than my mac. It would be nice to have some of those basic features.
Can you share with us a roadmap of a few planned features? If not a roadmap, is there a planned regular update schedule like the mac alpha? If not, would it be possible to have one?
Kurt

Holy cow...  I know it's not simple and all, but I REALLY need it!!  I'm in seminary online, and the books being on LOGOS is INCREDIBLE; however, without being able to highlight key points or make some notes, I have to stick with regular books...  *sigh*

Any fresh news on when this might happen?

Thanks for making LOGOS amazing!

What I do is the following (probably mentioned before):

1 - Create an Evernote Account

2 - Create an Email Address linking my Evernote Account so whatever I email go to Evernote

3 - When I find a passage of interest in my Ipad/Iphone, etc.. I click the passage, then do "Share", then I note what I want to note and email it to my Evernote Account

Once a week, I review my Evernote Account on my Desktop and add the highlight/notes to the Logos 4 Desktop (forces me to review what I learned that week). 

So, it is a pretty crude, but workable way to adding notes/evernote integration into Logos 4 Ipad/Iphone.

I use Evernote but find the trouble with using the process you detail above is that invariably all I get with the "share" option is a hyperlink to the Logos marketing page for the iPhone app. NBG at all.

When you share using email, the subject line is the passage name (i.e. Proverbs 13:25, John 3:16, etc). Just change the email to include your "notes".  It is no where perfect, but it is how I get by until highlighting makes it in the app.

 

 

That only works with bibles. Anything else just includes the title of the book, which isn't very helpful. But I can see for bibles it is a sort of cludge

brilliant ~ i'm very happy to hear highlighting is coming our way [:D] [:)][:D][:)]