Factbook SUGGESTION: For Biblical Book or Corpus make Key Article a Bible Dictionary

Kiyah
Kiyah Member Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I hadn't used the Factbook in a while and now I see that there have been updates. I like the fact that for passage study you've included the Bible in the Factbook. That is helpful for finite passages, but not as helpful for books of the bible or entire corpuses (i.e. Pentateuch). One piece of feedback I would give that would greatly benefit me and I believe others is this:

For a Biblical Book or Corpus, make the Key Article a Bible Dictionary article, not the bible. See below what I'm referring to:

When I'm studying a whole book or corpus, I want quick overview information on the whole book from a Bible Dictionary. I have no plans to read the entire book inside the Factbook. (Just having the opening section of a book/corpus in the Factbook is not helpful either. I probably already have the bible open, and if not, I can just click the hyperlink at the top of the Factbook article.)

I would find this a lot more helpful if I could just see a dictionary article on a bible book/corpus right at the top. That's what I use the factbook for, quick access to information about whatever I typed in.

See this example for Enoch, I would want the same thing for a bible book/corpus:

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  • Antony Brennan
    Antony Brennan Member Posts: 747 ✭✭✭

    Great idea

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,409

    It looks to me like another boner (er..ah. BUG) in which they merged the entry for the Book itself which had several book specific features into the text of the book. Give them a lesson in milestone vs. reference and report it as a bug introduced fairly recently.

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  • Chris Heil
    Chris Heil Member Posts: 166 ✭✭

    Kiyah said:

    For a Biblical Book or Corpus, make the Key Article a Bible Dictionary article, not the bible.

    If you click on the new Library lens, Factbook will provide what you are requesting:

    Factbook Library Lens

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  • Kiyah
    Kiyah Member Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1318358#Comment_1318358

    Chris Heil said:

    Kiyah said:

    For a Biblical Book or Corpus, make the Key Article a Bible Dictionary article, not the bible.

    If you click on the new Library lens, Factbook will provide what you are requesting:

    Factbook Library Lens

    That's a commentary, not a dictionary. When I'm studying the bible I like to look at commentaries last (if at all), not first.

  • Adam Borries (Logos)
    Adam Borries (Logos) Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 881

    Thanks, Kiyah; we were talking about a similar issue just this week. We want to serve both use cases, and we thinking through the best way to do that. Thanks for your feedback!

  • Kiyah
    Kiyah Member Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1319112#Comment_1319112

    Adam Borries (Logos) said:

    Thanks, Kiyah; we were talking about a similar issue just this week. We want to serve both use cases, and we thinking through the best way to do that. Thanks for your feedback!

    Thanks Adam. Will there be a webinar on the new Factbook functionality at some point? A lot of stuff has changed and it would be great to be able to go through it all and be able to ask questions live.

  • Mike Brown (Logos)
    Mike Brown (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 11
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1319143#Comment_1319143

    Kiyah,

    There sure will! We are adapting our Live Training courses to include all of the new features, which will go live very shortly. Keep your eyes on our Live Training page. Also, subscribe to our "Learn Logos" mailing list to be notified each week of our upcoming Live Training sessions (see image).

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