The Logos notes system could work with the markdown format like the Obsidian software creating a neu
Logos could have its grading system redesigned to be more useful. I've started using the Obsidian software for grading notes with links between notes, so I thought it would be wonderful if Logos notes worked like Obsidian or Notion, which also creates links between notes.
For those who don't know Obsidian yet, I suggest you look for good videos of it on YouTube. Obsidian uses the markdown format, which allows you to import and export notes to other services. It aims to create a neural network of information, connecting it logically and creating links with existing files.
The idea is to have a notes system that acts as a "second brain". The notes are linked and interrelated in a fantastic index system, then it presents all the notes in a graphic system reminiscent of a neural network that is very similar to Logos' "Psalm Explorer" tool (which would already help in this process).
If Logos had this function of making links between notes and sermons, we could build our entire life of notes, studies and sermons in a way that everything could be classified, interconnected and more easily located whenever we need to remember a note or subject. Imagine it all in one place and the power it would bring to Logos.
Maybe, who knows, since everything you type in Obsidian is saved as simple .txt files to make it more compatible and exportable, Logos could have the function of letting Obsidian access your notes, or vice versa.
Who knows Obsidian? What do you think of the idea?
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Your post is very interesting. I've just begun to investigate Obsidian.
My work process is to create a "Research" file on a Bible text or topic of interest. I use Logos Notes and Clippings while reading/studying, then copy everything to a Markdown file to which I add exegetical notes and then use to create a Sermon Prep file that morphs into a Sermon.
Several years ago I dumped Microsoft Office products and began writing everything in Markdown, using LibreOffice for other types of files. I created Windows batch files that use Pandoc to convert between Markdown and .docx when I have to send/receive Word or Writer files (most people only know Microsoft Office). On my laptop, I use the best writing tool for Markdown, Typora, and Epsilon Notes on my mobile devices. If you know a little html or CSS, you can easily modify the formatting in these tools. (If anyone is interested in my tools, let me know)
I consider Logos Notes to be the utter bare minimum note-taking tool that is good for creating notes attached to text, but archaic and cumbersome for creating research/teaching material. Setting tags means I have to think of a system of tags that I'll remember over many years of use. Searching Logos notes is a waste of time since it only reveals which note contains the exact words I'm searching for, not the exact text within the note.
Clippings are very helpful for capturing info from books, however, they have to be sorted by hand and make it difficult to have a clipping file on a topic containing info from several references in any logical order (other than date). In addition, when I dump a whole clippings file I get all this wasted space full of separator lines, and the words Notes and Tags even when those are empty. I have to cull all that wasted space out with a text editor and regex tools.
Logos is stuck in a legacy model of information handling by using data sets and searching for exact matches. More and more I go to Google or one of the AI engines to ask for Bible verses on a topic or verses where I don't remember the exact words.
Logos notes needs a total revamp to allow notes to be interconnected by an AI tool. I like your idea a lot. We'll have to see if they can change.
Have a great day,
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100% agree with OP Anderson and Jim.
I am a long time software programmer and I really like Obsidian. For years I would sit and type sermon notes and journal entries in Markdown in a plain text editor, and then Obsidian came along and fulfilled all my hopes and dreams.. well, some at least :-D
The ideas behind Obsidian and Markdown are:
- What you ultimately create is not "rich text" but plain text. There are no "bullets", but rather a "minus" in the document and so on. Headers start with "#", "##", "###" etc. to indicate hierarchy.
- Obsidian or a markdown reader will "render" a view in a certain way; the "source code" of your document is readable if somewhat crude.
- Markdown is standard and portable. It can be converted easily to web content.
- In Obsidian you are building an interlinked "Wiki"; links between notes allow it to become your "Second Brain" as you click from one to the next.
- Obsidian has a "graph view" where you see your notes as interconnected dots. Visual tools make it more of a "Second Brain"
- No curly quotes, which drive programmers crazy :-D
Ultimately it's a richer idea of what a "notebook" is, whereas in Logos it's kind of like a bunch of sticky notes.
I also agree a more "fuzzy" search is needed, for notes and in general. TBH though, Obsidian search is about the same.
All in all though, I think of Logos as one of the most impressive programs I've used. Hopefully these ideas will be helpful.
Blessings,
P.
P.S. Vim mode for the 1% of us.
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