Temprary highlights/visual filters
I was beginning the study of a passage and wanted to quickly see how often a particular word was repeated in that section, knowing that seeing repetition in the Bible is a important part of understanding the text. There were several methods that came to mind for how to accomplish this. But I also realized that all of them took some amount of configuration to do.
Visual filters are great, but take either creating a new document or finding an existing on and then configuring it with a search string and a style. Searches, such as inline, can accomplish this to some level, but they require opening a new tab and setting the search and the range. They also only show the verses with the search term and so can obscure the amount of repetition in a section of scripture. There's also various tools such as word studies and browsers that all can accomplish this task with some level of configuration.
That's when I thought how nice it would be to just right click on the word and have an option to 'highlight all occurrences'. This would be like a temporary visual filter that just highlights all occurrences in the current resource with a single click. Simple and easy (something Logos needs a lot more of!). I should then be able to either save this as a regular visual filter or turn it off with a simple option and go about my study.
I think it's simple, but helpful and quick functions like this that would make studying with Logos less complex and more productive. I've added this to the feedback site here:
https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/temporary-highlights-filters
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danwdoo said:
That's when I thought how nice it would be to just right click on the word and have an option to 'highlight all occurrences'
This is possible already using the Corresponding Words visual filter
One of the videos at https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031079891-Visual-Filter-Videos demonstrates this
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My hope was to find a way to do this without a lot of clicking and scrolling, which this method requires. Visual filters are wonderful, but not easy to navigate through since the list is very long (because of their power). I'm hoping for something with a quick on/off such as an option to assign a hotkey or shortcut in the right click menu that would make this easier.
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