How Can I Better Utilize Visual Filters?

Aaron Hamilton
Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,361
edited 2:52AM in English Forum

How can I make better use of visual filters to enhance my Bible study? Currently, I only use visual filters infrequently, and I would like to learn how I could make better use of this feature in the future. In what situations are visual filters helpful?

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  • NichtnurBibelleser
    NichtnurBibelleser Member Posts: 469 ✭✭✭
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    I have shared a set of custom-made Highlighters and Dynamic Filters here. Maybe it helps. Feel free to ask for further explanation.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,086 ✭✭✭✭
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    I'd assume you'd want to use 'visual' filters for things you want to 'see'. Extra emphasis, comparison, etc. I'd start with the question, what do you want to see? There's also the opposite … not wanting emphasis … seeing as the author wrote.

    For me, I have just two types. I (approximately) date my apparatus estimates (mss). Neither perfectly accurate, nor necessarily indicative of early/late. And then I have my wiggle-writing filter that highlights author wiggling on reasoning. Interestingly, I use a MultiBook view for commentaries (with the wiggle filter on). And by necessity my lead Bible gets 'wiggled' too. Biblical authors didn't wiggle very much at all.

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

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  • NichtnurBibelleser
    NichtnurBibelleser Member Posts: 469 ✭✭✭
    Answer ✓

    I have shared a set of custom-made Highlighters and Dynamic Filters here. Maybe it helps. Feel free to ask for further explanation.

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,361
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1360189#Comment_1360189

    Thank you for sharing! I can see, for example, how having a visual filter highlighting times and places would be helpful if I were doing a chronological study on the life of Christ.

    I could see myself using visual filters on a temporary and fluctuating basis depending on the current subject of my study.

    Great contribution; thanks again!

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,086 ✭✭✭✭
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    I'd assume you'd want to use 'visual' filters for things you want to 'see'. Extra emphasis, comparison, etc. I'd start with the question, what do you want to see? There's also the opposite … not wanting emphasis … seeing as the author wrote.

    For me, I have just two types. I (approximately) date my apparatus estimates (mss). Neither perfectly accurate, nor necessarily indicative of early/late. And then I have my wiggle-writing filter that highlights author wiggling on reasoning. Interestingly, I use a MultiBook view for commentaries (with the wiggle filter on). And by necessity my lead Bible gets 'wiggled' too. Biblical authors didn't wiggle very much at all.

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

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,361
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1360193#Comment_1360193

    There is so much more depth to your comment and strategy; wish we could discuss more over a cup of coffee. Fascinating ideas.

    On a more shallow level, as far as highlighting what I want to see, my "problem" is that I don't usually want to see anything specific, generally speaking. However, if I think of visual filters in a more temporary, project-focused way, I can see how bringing emphasis to certain words/ideas/etc. could be a help and time saver.

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