Notes and Highlights

Michael Kinch · 2024-12-28T23:41:31+00:00

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Logos is running a webinar this Thursday on "Organizing Your Thoughts With Notes and Highlights." Many of us use notes and highlights in our research and sermon or Bible study prep work. My question is how do you use those notes when you are finished working through a study or resource? I tend to do my highlighting etc. and then forget about it until later when preparing a message. It makes more sense to me to rework those notes into a document that summarizes my research. What do you do with your notes and highlights?

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Jonathan Bradley

If I know I'm going to take a lots of notes in a book I am reading, I make a layout specific for that book. I have the book open, a note file with a notebook just for that book, as well as a clipping file. I'll generally have a Bible open as well as the Factbook. As I read, I take notes, anchoring and tagging them as I go along.

When I go to sermon prep, I have a notebook titled " 0.1a This Week's Sermon," titled in such a way to keep it near the top. I make a note in it (that gets moved after I've preached the sermon) in which I aggregate everything I need for that sermon, so if I'm working through a book for that sermon, I'll copy quotes and portions of my notes into the This Week's Sermon note file, respectively anchored usually only to the Scripture I am preaching from.

As for highlights, I'm not a big fan of how they are considered "note" files. I often delete highlights and then re-do them to get them to be in a specific notebook.

I hope this helps.

Justin Gatlin

I recommend attaching a note to the start of the chapter as a place for holding summaries. I made a video about my approach and rationale :

https://youtu.be/6A4HOD25TaI?si=X0W60CpALfJov-T5

Jonathan, you may already know but if you create a custom highlighting palette, you can assign them to a specific notebook. That seems better to me than deleting and recreating them.

Jonathan Bradley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1351028#Comment_1351028

WHAT? @Justin Gatlin I had no clue I could do that! Okay, I was about to go to bed…and now that I've read this, that's not going to happen any time soon lol.

Jonathan Bradley

Okay, follow-up question…how do I create a custom highlight pallette?

Edit/Update - I figured it out. It's the little stuff in life sometimes. THIS IS SO AMAZING! Thank you @Justin Gatlin !!!!

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1351036#Comment_1351036

Glad to help! Sorry I didn't see your question before you already had your answer.

Michael Kinch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1351018#Comment_1351018

Thanks Jonathan. Yes that is helpful. I agree with highlighting. When I highlight a longer section of text particularly if there are bullets only a portion of the text is recorded in the note. This is ok because I want to go back over my highlight notes and rewrite them in my own words. I just need to be aware that I cannot rush though a book making a lot of highlights because if I do not work with those highlights I am not going to remember them.

Michael Kinch

Thanks Justin. This is a very helpful training video. I have used the notes feature a fair bit but I found your overview very helpful. Some things I had forgotten and some I didn't know. Thank you so much. If you open a notebook before you select any of the notes, you can print/export the entire notebook.

Jonathan Bradley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1351060#Comment_1351060

In theory, you could make a custom highlighter palette for each book you read and have all the highlights from that book go into the same notebook that your notes go in for that book. I don't know if that would help or make things more confusing, though.

Jonathan Bradley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1351053#Comment_1351053

It was a matter of minutes, @Justin Gatlin, so no worries! Thank you again!