Notes using multiple resources

Lukas
Lukas Member Posts: 328 ✭✭✭
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When you read a passage and you get some insight from multiple resources. What do you notes making people do to indicate that you have worked through those resources, so that when you reach that passage again you don't work through the same resources. Please keep in mind I am a mobile web app user and not desktop.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,474

    Depending on the note I either keep a list of references used within the note - sometimes as a worklist that I check off as each is explored OR I add an anchor from each source

    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."

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,319
    edited February 7
  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,319

    When I am including insight from other resources in my notes, I will usually cite the reference. If I use a ref.ly link to link to the resource, then not only can I recall in the future where I got the insight from, I also can keep my thoughts in the note quite brief. If I need a refresher, the link to the correct location in the resource is right there for me to read up on. Just be sure to anchor the note to the verse rather than individual words so that it will show regardless of translation.

  • Morgan
    Morgan Member Posts: 494 ✭✭✭

    I use anchors to tie the note to each reference consulted. I think of them as strings leading me to the different books, verses, and sections of Logos that were all put together into the one note.

  • Lukas
    Lukas Member Posts: 328 ✭✭✭

    Thank you for the insights. But when you use a resource and anchor it, do you highlight the text that you use in that resource to show what you have taken out from it. And if so do you make use of one type of highlight.

  • Morgan
    Morgan Member Posts: 494 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1357198#Comment_1357198

    I keep highlighting simple.

    • Yellow for following the train of thought/argument so I can skim and get the gist of what's there
    • Green for cultural and historical background
    • Blue for quotes and relevant bible passages
    • Red for applications and behaviors
    • Purple for anything lexical/grammatical

    If I'm reading through a book I'll read through a chapter, highlights as I go, then anchor a note to the chapter or section heading and use that as my summarizing/thinking space.

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,319
    edited February 7
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1357198#Comment_1357198

    If you link to the precise location, it is easy to locate what you have referenced without the use of highlights.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,474

    @Lukas

    do you highlight the text that you use in that resource to show what you have taken out from it.

    I don't - but then I rarely highlight anything - never did in college either with paper texts.

    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."

  • xnman
    xnman Member Posts: 2,889 ✭✭✭

    I do link to other resources (books and such) but don't highlight the resource. I am not fond of the highlighting as it is now.

    xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".

    Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!

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