Add support for tables in Notes

Phil Gons (Logos)

Please allow us to create and edit basic tables in Notes.

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That would be helpful!

Chris Flanagan

Because of Anchors to Bible verses and resources, Logos Notes has amazing potential as a "second brain"/zettlekasten for biblical/theological studies. I recommend that the developers review tools like Notion or Evernote and implement at least the main basic features of those tools, including tables (even only HTML or MD would be a start), backlinking, expanding/collapsing sections, and folders/nesting/stacking within a notebook. Notes is a great tool that can be even better.

unknown

Tables are helpful for organizing data and notes would be improved by supporting them.

unknown

This would be wonderful.

Ralph Gibson III

Ability to create tables in Logos Notes would be a major feature enhancement. Especially helpful when comparing/contrasting information. Would also help in the management and layout of screen snapshots in Notes.

unknown

That would be so great! Helps to get a good overview, helps with structuring.

Benjamin V. Rideaux

We can use a better way of adding the notes to be more user friendly. Sometimes it's a little complicated to add notes to the actual lesson you're in... perhaps attach feature to the different guides menu. Hmmmm??

If I want to display parallel texts to a pericope, among other things, it would be very clear to create these in a synoptic, i.e. tabular view, so that you have the texts next to each other and can evaluate them together in the overview. For me, it's a better representation than one below the other. So it would be excellent if you could do this in the specially compiled personal study aid and not in an external program.

Perhaps there is already a text writing module on the market which could be integrated into Logos.

Douglas Hammerstrom

Yes, just tried to do so and was suprised to find out I could not.

unknown

Tables are really useful in Notes.
At present I need to create a table, screenshot it and paste in as an image and put a hyperlink to the original in case I want to edit it. (Can’t just put the hyperlink because sometimes it can’t find external resources)
Trying to copy a table from a resource doesn’t work - it just comes a s stream of data. I need to insert a screenshot which means I often have to open the resource in a floating screen so I can zoom it in to the appropriate width, etc for the notes.
Really need to be able to post tables in a way that the table rescales for the note pane width, as well as being able to Create table that automatically resize

unknown

Add support for markup so we can have tables. Markup is widely used, simple, and the free open-source software library's to implement them are widely available and lightweight to implement.

Benjamin Quek

Hi, I'm bumping this up again. I use OneNote to teach Bible studies since Logos doesn't have tables for comparisons. It would be helpful to use Logos with tables, so I can bring up verses

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1357316#Comment_1357316

Have you tried tables as images in Logos i.e. make the table in your favorite tool, take a screen shot of it, and put the screen shot in a Logos note? It's not ideal but it at least allows one to teach from Logos.

Kristin

As others have mentioned, this would be really helpful in sermon builder as well. (More so than in notes IMO).

Something to consider, if adding it to notes and sermons would be too complicated technically, maybe just adding it as another type of doc, sort of like the prayer list, but slightly different?

Christian Rowland

Notes is one of the everyday features of Logos I use. The use of tables and collapsable headers would be very helpful!

J.M. Diener

Hey, developers. It's been five years since this request was first made, and we users haven't seen any response from you. Is there any update as to if you're even going to consider this? Considering you update the application every few weeks, could you perhaps even just have an intern put some time in to adding tables? The most basic form of table editing would be a light-year's worth of a jump forward! IMNSHO, it's even more valuable than any of the AI stuff put into an application, because it allows us to better organize our content as we study. And isn't that what Logos is about?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380573#Comment_1380573

I suspect that Logos keeps a proposed schedule of projects for a year or so out, and that that schedule get changed frequently. Logos has learned to have an informal policy of not giving us projected dates for future projects. We users too often took them as promises rather than current intention.

Phil Gons (Logos)

It's a great idea. We'd love to do it. I'd personally make good use of it. But we have to make sure our limited resources are spent in the right places, and this one hasn't yet bubbled up across the line as one of the most pressing problems to solve. We do hope to give Notes some attention in the the medium term, and perhaps this could be included in a Notes refresh when we do. I'm sorry we haven't been able to deliver this yet. I'm really looking forward to it, as well.

Steven MacDonald

Tables in Notes would be great as well as being able to use Markdown as well. Please continue to enhance Notes. It is one of my favorite Logos features now!

Jack Caviness

Yes

Christopher Randall

@Phil Gons (Logos) What would make it a pressing problem? Would it be more vocalization from people?

Phil Gons (Logos)

Unless it's an easy or critical bug fix (something we've already built and shipping is broken) or a really quick win (a small tweak that takes a developer a couple of hours), the vast majority of work we prioritize needs to have strategic alignment with what big problems we're focused on solving. Notes isn't too far off, but there's some foundational work we need to do first. I suspect we'll need to turn our attention to Notes later this year or next.