Note Anchors

The short answer is that Anchors anchor to a Bible reference  or to selected text. When you anchor you get an indicator image (like a postit note) next to the selection.  

I suppose you could use notes for cross reference however i think you would be wise to look at the Faithlife (Logos)web site under the support heading and the training section for a better understanding of the tool. I have found Morris Proctor's web site very helpful.

@Catherine A Dean , I'm sincerely sorry you are so angry and upset! I never used WordSearch, but I gather you once bought it, used it, loved it, but then were understandably unhappy when WordSearch apparently decided they were not doing well, and to "sell out" to a different company that makes a very different product, Logos. So now you're stuck, unable to use your WordSearch knowledge and skills in Logos because it's a different program and works differently. You have good reasons to be frustrated!

But, are you very sure that deliberately and consciously refusing to learn how to use this different program well isn't "cutting off your nose to spite your face?" And choosing to stay miserable?

I've never used WordSearch, so I can't compare, but I've read many others complaining that Logos is big and complicated and hard to learn. It is my impression that Logos has been working hard to try to make it easier for newcomers, only to find some seasoned Logos users bitterly complaining that they're changing a program they knew how to use! Seems like Logos can't win…

But I have used many other apps over many years, including word processors, spreadsheets, graphics editing, video editing, music editing, musical score notation "engraving" program, and more, and have found every single time, no kidding every single time without exception, that I need to learn the new app, and will be frustrated until I do, but I'll be much happier once I just "go with the program" and learn how to use the darn thing. A very long time ago, I used WordPerfect on DOS machines (yeah, I said it was a long time ago! That was before Windows existed!), and then switched to Word on Windows. Then I moved to the Mac and started using Pages instead of Word, but then I switched to LibreOffice for several years. Then in order to work on some things for my priest who uses Pages, I went back to Pages. EVERY TIME, Catherine, there was a learning curve! The way each of those apps do things is different, and EVERY TIME it seemed like the one I was used to was easy and intuitive but the NEW one was impossible to use and completely stupid! … until I learned how to use it! And then everything was better!

I'm sincerely sorry you are so frustrated, I am, but I urge you to stop choosing to stay righteously miserable and just bite the bullet and learn how to use Logos. Nothing's perfect, so Logos isn't either. But I've been using it since either version 2 or the first one, I forget, it's been so long, and I love Logos, and am grateful for it.

I would suggest opening Logos and the Library (your available books), and searching for "QuickStart." There is probably a series of videos for your version of Logos (in my case, there are several for different versions, but the latest one was "QuickStart for Logos 10" (and "QuickStart for Logos 10: Outline" which shows the whole series of videos). They're all short, and in my experience, just no kidding amazingly helpful! If you go through them all, I really think you will feel better about things. There is more help available on the Logos website.

Well, Theophan, An Evaluation or a Grade for your reply would OBVIOUSLY reflect Fail! SINCE you have conveyed NO INFORMATION. ONE USUALLY “BITES THE BULLET” when contacting “TECH SUPPORT” staffed usually with “Trainees”!! The following list PROVES this OBSERVATION – reflecting you wasting time for BOTH OF US!

• Failure to provide an answer to the only ONE TECH ISSUE QUESTION NEEDING JUST A TWO of THREE SINGLE WORD ANSWERS.
• Failure in other words, to SIMPLY & DIRECTLY **DEFINE** ONE TERM, “Anchor” as concisely requested, as either “Directional link or the “Target”). …While “BITTING THE BULLET as you RUDLY advise, NOT recognizing THE TIME, ALREADY TAKEN, TO DO EXACTLY THAT!!!

An Evaluation or a Grade for your reply is OBVIOUSLY a Big Fail, SINCE NO INFORMATION IS CONVEYED. ONE USUALLY “BITES THE BULLET” when contacting “TECH SUPPORT” staffed usually with “Trainees”!! The following list PROVES this OBSERVATION – reflecting you wasting time for BOTH OF US.

• Failure to provide an answer to the only ONE TECH ISSUE QUESTION NEEDING JUST A TWO of THREE SINGLE WORD ANSWERS.
• Failure in other words, to SIMPLY & DIRECTLY DEFINE ONE TERM, “Anchor” as concisely requested, as either “Directional link or the “Target”). …While “BITTING THE BULLET as you RUDLY advise, NOT recognizing THE TIME, ALREADY TAKEN, TO DO EXACTLY THAT!!!

FAILURE TO AT LEAST ** TO PROVIDE A LINK** POINTING to the WRITTEN “ANCHOR” SECTION of the TECH SUPPORT MANUAL! OR CAN YOU NOT DO THAT?

IT IS NOT YOUR JOB to COUNSEL every customer’s right to give “on the side” “FEEDBACK" to be SIMPLY FILED! As I stated, it is not being offered to customers, elsewhere that I could find.

IT IS ALSO NOT PERTINANT TO KNOW YOUR LACK OF COMPUTING experience. It would be considered possibly, as conversation >>> IF AN ANSWER TO THE ISSUE had been provided. Instead, not even a hint was provided, TO ONLY FRUSTRATE FURTHER!’. DO NOT BOTHER RESPOND. I won't be wasting more of MY TIME!

…Yasmin, you really think people can't read? Why would you waste providing a link to "a thread". Again, not even helpful. Besides, Google answered in ONE SENTENCE within the "computing context" the term "Anchor" you might "bite the bullet" and look that up yourself in your own manual …. no "threads"! Check the manual, you are to know, so as to correctly provide direction to customers.

First, I hope this doesn’t post twice, with one being unfinished. For some reason, my page refreshed multiple times. It’s been a day.

Secondly, my answer to what “anchors” do is this: It allows you to connect a part of a book (or whatever document you are looking at in Logos) to a specific note, so when you go back to look at the book, you can see what you wrote before. It also allows you to interconnect several different books/documents/sources to one note. This may be an oversimplification, but it’s’ how I view it in my mind.

Lastly, @Catherine A Dean, the way I learned how to use Logos was using it to study the Bible and a lot of pointing and clicking, letting curiosity take over. Then, I eventually went on to some of the training videos (and here - scrolling down to the on-demand videos), YouTube, but mostly, I went here, to the user forums. There have been many times where I have, as well as others, asked simple questions born from being new to the program. And, after over a decade of using the software, I still sometimes ask questions which end up having simple answers.

I sincerely hope you can learn how to use it and put some of the energy you have put towards your posting to learning to use Logos. We, the forums, would love to be able to help you learn how to use Logos so you can maximize your studying of the Scriptures, just as you did with WordSearch.