Default resources on Insights Panel

Thanks. That’s not going to work. I have set these priorities for other tools. Shame. This is a real limitation. I will just have to select my preferred resources when I use this tool because it would be more trouble to upset my priorities elsewhere. 

Mark, I think I use the various tools of this Swiss Army knife differently than others. So I appreciate that Logos shouldn't change its approach based on one user.

So my philosophy is that some of the tools have overlap in their functionality. For the sake of keeping this post short, I'll highlight one example.  The passage guide, passage explorer and now insights panel have similar functionality, but distinct differences.

One of the issues of prioritisation at play in this set of tools is which commentaries do I want at the top?  For the passage guide, my priority is a workflow of the kinds of commentaries I want to consult first when I am looking at a passage of scripture hermeneutically. This is not my favourite or most consulted, but rather if I went to the bookshelf in my library, which commentary would I start with first to lay the foundation of the background on this passage. Then I move through critical and exegetical commentaries, to more expository.

Obviously this is not a perfect order of commentaries because they are not each written perfectly, but I have a preference of the strengths of each commentary in this process as a general rule. I must hasten to add that when Logos added the ability to sort commentaries according to series, author, denomination, type and era, this was a huge improvement. I 'break' my mental workflow from my priority list with the 'era' sort because at a certain stage I am interested in what has been written about a passage over the years. So the passage guide is my deep dig tool.

On the other hand, my use of the passage explorer is set up in a workspace for when I am reading and studying at a higher level and I am not so focused on the underlying details supporting contours of a passage of scriptures, but I want to keep an eye on it. This is where my prioritisation for passage guide does not serve me as well. In this tool, I would rather see my top five commentaries listed. If I could only own and consult five commentaries that I want to stop and quickly park on, which would they be? Of course, my overall prioritisation is not set up on this criteria. I live with that. I can click 'more' and expand the list to get to them, but that's more clicks and friction in my workflows.

Now to the insights tool. My current use of the insights tool is an even higher level. I am using it more like a study Bible. Its when I want to primarily read chunks of scriptures and plan to not stop very much. The resources that I might want to consult are yet again not the top of my mega dig list from passage guide. In my case, I am currently using Faithlife Study Bible and TCOT/TCNT as my quickly check resources. Obviously if something really interests me I load up passage guide and go down a deep hole, but most of the time I just want to briefly explore a thought before I read on, because my overall objective is to read the scriptures at a top high level flow.

Exegetically, I have the same issues with other tools in regard to my lexicons. The top ones that I want to pop up in the Information Panel are not the ones that I want to dig with when I right click a word to do some further digging. They are similarly not the order of my workflow in the Bible word study guide. One size does not fit all for me.

I would guess that my orientation of using Logos spans from my Libronix days and the foundations that formed when the prioritisation feature addressed a much smaller scope of possibilities in the platform. My main orientation at that stage was, give me my first commentary off of the bookshelf in my workflow, then the next, etc. 

Personally, if there was one thing I would love to see in the future is a reworking of the priority feature. I have created blank personal books to create category separators, but it is one mega list which is very unpleasant to manage. But it works... and for this new insights tool, I'll work out a win/win with my other uses of my priority list.