🛠️ Feature Focus: The Logos Dashboard
Did you know your Logos Dashboard is more than just a landing page? It’s your personalized command center — designed to keep your Bible study organized, inspiring, and accessible every time you open the app.
Here’s what to explore this week:
- Smart Search - Logos’s powerful Smart Search, powered by AI, answers natural-language questions quickly, eliminating the need for special syntax.
- Get Started Tool – Whether you're new to Logos or exploring a new feature, this tool offers step-by-step guides tailored to your needs.
- Devotional Cards – Add your favorite devotionals and stay on track with daily readings.
- Reading Plans & Prayer Lists – Easily build consistent habits with your reading and prayer life.
- Workflows – Dive deeper with guided studies for sermon prep, word studies, or personal devotions.
- Shortcuts – Access your favorite layouts, tools, and resources instantly.
💡Pro Tip: You can customize your Dashboard to match your study rhythm. Try adding a few cards that align with your weekly focus!
Jump into your Dashboard today and explore what’s possible — it’s all right there, waiting to help you grow.
Sr. Community Manager at Logos.
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I don't use the dashboard much but I notice that this update has really improved its look. Nice and clean. I'd love to see Factbook also evolve toward a nicer and more pleasant presentation (without of course, losing functionality). Nice work on the dashboard.
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Shortcuts– Access your favorite layouts, tools, and resources instantly.@Jason Stone can you clarify what you mean by this? I wasn't aware that my favorite layouts could be accessed via the dashboard or that I could save shortcuts to my favorite tools and resources on the dashboard.
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I don't use it very much. Sometimes, I have my default opening screen set to a layout of choice, and so I will go days/weeks without even opening it.
When I do use it, I mainly access the reading plan I have set for my daily reflection on the scriptures. Occasionally, I'll have another card or two for coursework, but this is rare.
I don't pay attention to the advertisements or the other queue cards. Maybe I should!
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Accessing via the ☑ Feature Suggestions can get you into many tools and features quickly! While you cannot "pin" those items to your Dashboard, it is good to watch for suggestions to launch us into new parts of our application.
Sr. Community Manager at Logos.
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ok… I won't push the point, except to say that the way you described shortcuts in the original post sounds pretty cool, and I think it may be a nice addition to consider for future development.
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We do have a Product Suggestions area of Community if you'd like to expand on that for our team, @Aaron Hamilton.
Sr. Community Manager at Logos.
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Pro Tip: You can customize your Dashboard to match your study rhythm. Try adding a few cards that align with your weekly focus!I hope Logos can maintain this customization spirit and give us the ability to hide the new search bar. Otherwise, my Dashboard love will dim.
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@Aaron Hamilton wrote: "I wasn't aware that my favorite layouts could be accessed via the dashboard…"
If I'm looking at the Dashboard, and the "Get Started" section just below the new AI search bar, and I click on the "+" sign at its upper right-hand corner to add something to the dashboard, layouts is one of the options:
When I'm using a certain layout every day, I find it handy.
You could also create a layout with some of your favorite tools open, and have quick access to them that way.
You can also go to Program Settings and "At Startup Open to" and select a specific layout to bypass the Dashboard altogether and just open a layout that, again, has some of your favorite tools, etc..
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Thank you! As one who doesn't use the dashboard often, I wasn't aware of this option. I appreciate the tips!
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I go through spurts when I use it e.g. when I am working through a course or a long workflow. I would use it for Scripture reading and prayer had I not switch to a magazine subscription. I would use it more consistently if it retained the features of the old ribbon for liturgical churches or the Today in Christian History had more even distribution of events across time and geography. This is a feature that I like the concept and think is generally well designed but has content that is a miss for some of us.
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."
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When I discovered I can put Layouts on the dashboard as cards, it changed the world to a brighter, shinier place.
I use Layouts more than any other 'click' in Logos, and this made each one three clicks faster.
Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a van down by the river.
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Layouts can be accessed from the Dashboard. Click the +, and then under add new, select layout then choose your favorite layout. Favorite tools can be accessed by using an empty layout, bring up that tool, save the layout as the tool name then add that card to your dashboard.
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This is great; thanks! I'm liking the dashboard more already 😊
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A couple ideas for cards:
- A simple blank note card. Nothing tied to your notes in Logos, but simply a quick place to write maybe a reminder or something quick. If you close Logos, the note will appear next time you open Logos, but other than that it's not saved or tied to anything else.
- I like the "Choose Saints Resources". But what about having some other versions of this? Perhaps one for Church History, or OT People, or Kings of Israel, etc. Or perhaps just let it be customizable… select any encyclopedia and it will bring up a random article, showing the first sentence or two.
- A card showing a Hebrew word (or Greek, Aramaic, etc. ) along with a short definition.
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Removing the new search bar as an "option" is a current suggestion… Please go to the link below and "upvote" this…
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It seems that the old "reading view" option was discarded when redeveloping this dashboard…the "view" settings have been greatly reduced down to roughly 3 options max. Unless you know where "reading view" is????
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I believe "Full screen" (F11) accomplishes the same thing:
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Is there a way….
Say I open Logos to Dashboard and use it like a menu of places to go in my studies. So from Dashboard, I go to a card on Dashboard labeled "Layout 1". So I work with "Layout 1" and finish what I want to do with it… and then close "Layout 1"….
Is there a way to have Logos automatically go back to the Dashboard (without having to click on Dashboard again) so that I can choose another card to go to?
And maybe have a "Program Setting" such that I select "Yes" this process will happen automatically. ???
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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But this is how my Logos works. I have my frequently used layouts and other cards on my Dashboard; I select a card (or open anything else), work from that, update the layout when I'm done, close everything down with the Close All shortcut, and I'm automatically back at my Dashboard. In my program settings, I have At Start Open to Dashboard.
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@Yasmin Stephen Good point. Thanks.
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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No need to close the layout you're finished working with. Instead, click the icon below (or to the right of, if your toolbar is across the top of your screen) the blue Logos magnifying glass in the top left corner. The dashboard will show on top of your current layout, and you can click on the card you desire to switch to. The old layout will automatically close, and the new one will open.
Editing: It's NOT the blue Logos magnifying glass, as I wrote initially. It's the icon below the blue Logos magnifying glass. I'm sorry!
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