The Desired Features and Feature Improvements Thread (NON-AI)

Frank Sauer said:

What New Feature Ideas would you like to see added - give details

Before my esteemed happy colleague gets to reply...

'Projects' would be my dream come true.

I would love to be able to open Logos and continue work seamlessly on my Sermon, my Bible Study Session, or my little bit for Messy Church.

Each project having its own layout, books open etc.

Frank Sauer said:

but your 'Projects' idea

Thanks for the support Frank but I cannot take responsibility for the idea. KS4J has been pushing for this for what seems like decades.

Hmmm ... I have a list on feedback.logos.com which includes:

1. Visual Filters: Please provide a separate default icon for notes added from workflows: I opened a text and was surprised to see a string of yellow-bent-corner note icons attached to the text as I had not "turned on" any notebooks. They were all generated from Workflows. Please provide workflows with a distinguishable icon so we can instantly recognize them as workflow notes. Vote at Visual Filters: Please provide a separate default icon for notes added from workflows | Logos
2. Please expand calendar devotional to include undated daily devotionals: There are a number of monthly devotionals in Logos that are given only day of month in the book - the idea being that they are monthly rather than annual plans. Please extend the concept of calendar devotionals to include these books. Vote at Please expand calendar devotional to include undated daily devotionals | Logos
3. Rework prioritization: Prioritization needs to be simplified. Among the requirements should be:
   1. The ability to see/specify the index the prioritization applies to
   2. The ability to apply advanced prioritization to a collection of resources
   3. A new ability to apply advanced prioritization to specific tools
   4. An easy way to see resources that are subject to a specific index in priority sequence whether by default or user specification
   5. An easy way to see what index types you have defined priority for and which are still simply the default.
   By not having the multiple indexes of a single resource being prioritized together, one eliminates the most confusing aspect of prioritization - the interactions between what are to the user separate prioritization list.
   By making the resulting priority lists visible, one eliminates the stray prioritized book from inadvertently messing with the list.
   By making collections to be prioritized, one allows books to use the author's intended translation rather than the users' preferred translation.
   Vote at Rework prioritization | Logos
4. Cheat sheets for new users with standardized terminology: One thing that makes Logos/Verbum intimidating to new users is that the same things is referred to differently in the forums, in the documentation, and by the various sources providing training. This makes it difficult for a new user to find the information they need in help. I would like to suggest that Logos take some basic screen shots of the main screen options a user sees, that these screen shots be labeled with an official Logos terminology for every component/action available on that screen, and that hovering on that label tells you what the action does and when relevant, the sequence in which the options appear. I say component/action because the right click menu is fundamental to the use of Logos and the other keyboard options/actions are often forgotten. The images should go for completeness although I would not oppose a simplified overview view as an addition. I include sequence because knowing whether or not something is controllable via prioritization or saved selection lists is a very frequent issue. If Logos refuses to do this, as an alternative they could assign a person to verify/edit user generated wiki pages to provide the information - a far inferior solution in terms of visibility to new users. Vote at Cheat sheets for new users with standardized terminology | Logos
5. Allow external sources in bibliography documents: Please allow us to add external sources to our bibliographies, both items that are in Logos that we don't own and items not available in Logos at all. Vote at Allow external sources in bibliography documents | Logos
6. Expand workflows to accept non-Biblical texts: For a chunk of Christians, Bible study includes studing it in its natural habitat as well as caged between to covers. By this I mean:
   1. studying it's use in creeds, confessional documents, catechism ..
   2. studying it's expression in visual arts, literature, music (think Milgrom's Visual Midrash)
   3. studying it's interpretation throughout history e.g. studying an early church father's sermons or commentaries
   4. studying pseudepigrapha and aporcypha and it's relationship to the Bible
   5. . . .
   For this we need to be able to use a non-biblical text as the base of a workflow. Please expand the workflow to allow this. Vote at Expand workflows to accept non-Biblical texts | Logos
7. Reading Plans: Never-ending reading plans: Please add an option to reading plans for them to simply start over when completed. This is needed to support the perpetual reading of the Gospels in the Optina Kellia readings, the weekly psalm cycle for Jewish Psalm Societies, for the monthly distribution of Psalms of the Huguenots, etc. Vote at Reading Plans: Never-ending reading plans | Logos

These are mainly relatively small things. If implemented, they would show Logos was listening to its users. I have many more small things and a couple of biggies. But this should give you a sense of my thinking.

Wolfgang Schneider said:

Or is the idea of projects to put different Logos shortcuts on Windows/Mac desktop or taskbar which then would open Logos with a different project named layout? 

This one (ish)

Mike Binks said:

LECTIONARIES ... give some thought to the vast majority of Christian leaders that need to be cognisant of the current reading.

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Mike Binks said:

(is it an oxymoron to consider Logos' thought processes as 'Parochial'?)

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