how do I turn on Factbook tags on the web?

Oh, I wasn't blaming the poor innocent toolbar.

Same here. Maybe under the philosophy of the squeaky wheel getting the grease, I don't need the Web version at all, and even what it can do is remarkable to me. Rather, I just really, truly, genuinely, need the ability to have more than one layout open at a time.

In this specific situation, I had been deep in a project I had been working on until 3am last night and there is no way I could close it. Yet I had to teach a class. My plan was to teach it in Logos (my first try doing so), since I have been messing with a class layout. Yet I truly couldn't close my work, so I thought of maybe using the web version?

Yet it wound up just being too different from the app to be practical, so I went off to Accordance for my class.

I understand that only having one layout open at a time must work well for pastors (I guess), but for those of us who are involved in very technical types or research, it just isn't realistic.

You really should consider installing Verbum

Hi @DMB,

I think this is a good example of why I wish Logos had a message center, but since it doesn't….

I am confused about Verbum. I thought it was some sort of company Faithlife owned before Logos, so then people who used to own Verbum still can use it, but for new people it is something of the past. Yet that isn't the case?

Given what you wrote, I just searched for it online and it is some sort of Catholic resource? Is it something that comes with my Logos account, or is it something which is separate? Would my Logos products open in it?

I am just super confused, but if it would let me open another layout at the same time, I am very interested.

Hi @DMB,

Ok, thank you for the explanation. I just downloaded it and it is going through this exhaustive process getting info from Logos. I admit it is hard to not hold my breath as I am nervous about it erasing my sermon I have spent the past three days on, but hopefully it won't eat my work, and it seems important to download in order to have more than one layout open at a time. Thank you again for the explanation.

If you don't mind, I really do have a syncing concern. (I really did have a pretty catastrophic syncing situation a few years ago in Accordance and it has left me pretty jumpy about syncing).

So I know if I sync on Logos it is safe, since I don't make changes on the web version. Yet now with Verbum, you said they share Layouts. If I create a layout in Verbum and press the sync button, is there a risk of Logos syncing to look like Verbum and deleting things I created in Logos?

Maybe it would help if I explain the situation. I had worked on a detailed highlight system in Accordance which had taken years to do (no exaggeration). I then went to a coffee shop with my iPad and in the Accordance iPad app I spent a few hours highlighting the entire book of Mark, for a specific reason which was disconnected to my normal highlights.

I then went back home and opened Accordance and my Mark highlights weren't there. I then saw a little box asking me if I wanted to sync highlights from the iPad. So I said I did, as I thought it would add my Mark stuff.

However, instead of adding Mark, it literally deleted all of my highlights I had spent years on to sync it to look like the iPad version. It was so catastrophic that I wound up needing to do a TimeMachine backup.

So…. how do I prevent something like that happening if I do work in Verbum?

Hi @DMB,

Thank you for clarifying this. This is a super ignorant question, but regarding syncing concerns, the issue is if I open Verbum and make some sort of change and then go back to Logos, and that may or may not work correctly.

However, if I don't make any changes in Verbum, I simply open it to teach a class, and then close it, so I didn't do anything but view something, that is harmless regarding syncing. the issues might be if I try to make changes in Verbum and then how that might affect Logos. Is this correct? (Also, I understand you said that Faithlife is very reliable, but I just want to be extra careful.)

Also, regarding the backups, if Verbum did delete a sermon or something, it would be in my trash and I could go retrieve it. Likewise, a sermon which I created a month ago (hypothetically) and has never been opened in Verbum, would not be in any peril, so IF something like that happened, I would know something happened and would be able to retrieve it. Correct? That syncing issue I had a few years ago really did affect my view of syncing as a whole.

And if super-worried, name your layouts different between Logos and Verbum. Sync'ing won't affect each other.

Hi @DMB,

That is a good idea, thank you. :) I think I will do this method you said (as I am super-worried). However, I have been thinking a lot about it since I wrote last, and I think that something I need to remember is that it won't ever be as serious as it was in Accordance, since, thank God, I can export my work. If a layout gets deleted or something, that might be annoying, but for sure not a big deal. What would matter are the notes and sermons, and I will for sure be exporting those regularly. I am in the process of importing some important class notes as sermons and after I am done, I will export it all, and then go from there.

Thank you again for the idea about the names, that is really helpful.