Insights button in the way in the mobile app

Francis
Francis Member Posts: 3,988 ✭✭✭
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This issue was presented as a suggestion here, but I believe it should be more than a suggestion: it's a problem Logos must remedy.

As it is, the Insights button gets in the way of reading and other interactions with the text. While it is possible to work around it, it is obstrusive. There is not a lot of screen estate on a phone and having two insights buttons on a split screen masks a non-negligible portion of text. Even with just one resource (not a split), it would really be better if Insights could be toggled off.

I appreciate the fact that it may help make Logos more user-friendly to newbies but for those who only use Insights on occasion, it really is in the way.

Two options come to mind: (1) make the button a settings in visual settings (just like one can choose to display notes or not) or (2) fold Insights into the selection menu. I lean more toward (1) because the selection menu is in danger of becoming over-crowded. We could end up with the same problem there is with the context menu in the desktop app.

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  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,653

    Tapping on the screen while reading makes the button go away for me, which I find helpful.

  • PL
    PL Member Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭

    I agree with Francis! It is very intrusive and obstructive. Please find another location / solution for it.

    @Aaron Hamilton ~ Scrolling the text downward will make the Insights button reappear, and there's no way around that. It significantly decreases usability and readability for the sake of discoverability.

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,653
    edited April 10
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1365855#Comment_1365855

    Scrolling the text downward should not make the button reappear, unless you accidentally tap the screen while scrolling.

    Edit: I have found that scrolling up (downward finger movement) is more likely to return the Insights button. This seems to be by design. A more significant momentum scroll will hide the button while moving further in the book but will return the button when scrolling backwards.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,418 ✭✭✭✭

    I have to laugh … sorry.

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

  • Lukas
    Lukas Member Posts: 369 ✭✭✭

    I have suggested that if they could add to toolbar, maybe move the read out loud to the menu and then replace its place with insight icon.

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