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  • Martin Folley
    Martin Folley Member Posts: 1,151 ✭✭
    How do I use these forums? is there a guide? I am looking for the older categories and tags requires you to have a correctly tagged post and to know specific tags. I would like to browse before I ask a question. Is there still access to the proper forums of decades past (or at least since we moved from the older system around about Logos 3) It seems to be form over function. Much emphasis on community but I cannot see the community if all the posts are in one area. Thee used to be well established areas of expertise and sharing good practise. Is that still available anywhere?

    2017 15" MBP, iPad Pro

  • David Betts
    David Betts Member Posts: 99 ✭✭

    My journey began with B****S*ft on PC DOS 5.25 floppies, with only KJV & NIV. That was all - on a 286 monochrome no mouse. I was so amazed one day I bowed my head to thank our Father for this tool. I heard of Logos 1.6, but when I called ("landline") they said Logos is at 2.0 beta on CD (anyone know the year?), would I be willing to try that? I had to buy external CD no machine came with that. It seemed that Logos was going to be more powerful, and "international" (earth languages) so I took the plunge off the high dive into the deep end. Logos continues the "deep dive"(into 12K+). Now at 77, coming up on my 54th REbirthday, I praise "The Most High El Shadai Elohim" (aka The Lord God Almighty) - the AlefTav - Who Was, Is, Is Coming. Two highlights for me are the reverse interlinears and FactBook, then and all the "original language" resources. Translations are like 2nd hand - I prefer to get it from "The Source's Mouth" - Hebrew and Greek (ok, maybe Aramaic, etc). The sign over Messiah's cross was in three languages, so it is very important to "triangulate" ("EngGreBrew").

  • Jason Stone (Logos)
    Jason Stone (Logos) Administrator, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 675

    Great question, @Martin Folley! There is a guide in the footer of the site, but generally users can (1) search for assistance using the magnifying glass or (2) create a new post in the community for help.

    Sr. Community Manager at Logos.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,902 ✭✭✭✭

    In answer to your drift, instead of clicking on folders, like we used to, one clicks on 'Filters' usually at the top of a post list. Then select one or more tags that people assigned. And then if you do that frequently, you can save your choices as a link in your browser.

    But from a practical point of view, basically it's desktop, mobile, web app, and logos.com (and bugs). The other tags tend to be pretty sparse.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • ASUNDER
    ASUNDER Member Posts: 38 ✭✭

    I like to use software that makes computer tasks more efficient.

    But never went with Logos because of the cost. Recently discovered its new subscription model so now it's accessible to me. So I thought to give it a try because it would take a miracle to drag me away from Sword Searcher.

    Well, here I am. 😀 It's even better than I first thought. Also it's one of the only subscription models that I don't consider a scam and one of the only deployments of AI that I'm ethically ok with. I've never imagined that I would ever be ok with either of those two things for any reason.

    I'm sure that I'll be here bugging people with details about how the program works.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,038

    @ASUNDER

    I'm sure that I'll be here bugging people with details about how the program works.

    That's what we're here for. Your questions keep us learning too.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Donovan R. Palmer
    Donovan R. Palmer Member, MVP Posts: 2,693

    Thanks for sharing. I too have owned multiple Bible software packages and I miss very few things from the others now. Logos has come a long way!

  • ASUNDER
    ASUNDER Member Posts: 38 ✭✭

    I went from just paper and a to do list app, to a somewhat brief experience with Sword Searcher. You can't even get page numbers on that software (no criticism, cause that's just one dev and it's still very good). Going from that to Logos; this software is so good it breaks my mind. Halfway through the quick start videos and I had to go lay down for a while. It knocked me out. It was just one "are you kidding me" after another.

    This is the pinnacle of computing. Every little aspect of it is well thought out, well designed and top notch. It's beyond helpful. Some of the other secular technologies might be "further along" but we don't need those anyway. It's varying degrees of shiny objects. Here today and gone tomorrow. Logos uses modern tech to help us do what is important.

    Although the US dollar to Canadian currency conversion totally wrecks me. A two year Max sub is going to cost me $570. I wonder if I should buy it before my trial runs out. Trump was talking about 25% tariffs on Canada starting Feb. 1st. I wonder if that applies to digital goods too. ?

  • Craig Locke
    Craig Locke Member Posts: 1 ✭✭
    edited January 31

    I'm a cross platform adopter — It all started 20 years ago with Parson's Quick Verse (Have all the 3.5" floppies then install CD's) which was bought out by Wordsearch - used for several years then was purchased by Logos — Been a loyal Logos user ever since — What a tool - after the new subscription upgrade still learning some of the new in's and out's of the ai stuff… Pastoring the a wonderful church in East Texas for the past 25 years.

  • Joseph Valentine
    Joseph Valentine Member Posts: 23 ✭✭

    Welcome!