Logos not saving my reading progress

Admittedly I am not a fluent logos user. I have had it and used it for more than a year, but I have had much trouble figuring out how it works. I don't have a lot of time to watch tutorials and although I've tried to find answers by watching tutorials and reading articles, the cost to benefit ratio has not been favorable. 

I'm struggling this morning because I'm noticing that such a basic necessary function as saving reading progress from one session to the next (desktop version) is not working. I read, close out, and then when I come back, it's at a waaaay previous point of progress. When I go into layout and try to update or save before I close out, I see nothing except options to save as named layout ie save a whole nother layout which is unnecessary. using the update layout button does nothing useful. There's a 'close active layout' button, but no 'save active layout' button, which if I have to save before exiting (as would seem to be the case per my experience), shoudn't there be?

What am I doing wrong? What don't I know that I need to know?! I feel like I'm dating a gaslighting narcissist with this software. "You should know this," says the gaslighter, when really, could it be that it's not me, its the software that's not working sensibly? Please help.