Bibliography-Based Resource Prioritization

I think most of us can agree that resource prioritization could be improved within Logos.

My idea is simple: use bibliographies for resource prioritization.

Essentially, the resource prioritization philosophy would remain the same, except that you could add bibliographies into the resource prioritization list which would serve as dynamic placeholders for all the books listed in the bibliography. For those who didn't want to use bibliographies to help prioritize books, nothing would change.

To facilitate this, it would make sense to make a stand-alone prioritization tool so that you could drag and drop individual resources and sets from the Library as well as bibliographies from Documents.

The benefit of using bibliographies is that you can add notes reminding you why you like a particular commentary, why you tend to go to this commentary first, etc. If you are diligent about using bibliographies, you end up with a helpful document to share with others when they ask you what commentaries you found most helpful for a particular book of the Bible, when you might otherwise have forgotten. Thus, this method of prioritization would encourage good practices.

If you decide to implement this idea, if you want to draw more attention to the usefulness of bibliographies, you could refresh them with some additional features, such as:
Hover to see the cover image
Show/hide notes option
Sort alphabetically/sort by title option.

(It would also be nice if the notes on a specific book could be tagged to that book and show up in the Library next to your rating, but I can suggest that elsewhere).

Theoretically, this could work with collections as well as bibliographies, although I don't know if collections have a default order.

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Robert Kelbe

I meant to say, “Sort alphabetically/sort by priority option”

Robert Kelbe

Also, this wouldn't require a dedicated tool since we could always drag the library panel into a tab and then drag and drop from the Library or Documents.

Robert Kelbe

See more explanation and discussion here: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/218297/1271650.aspx#1271650