📚 Feature Focus: Summarize Content in Logos

Jason Stone (Logos) · 2025-04-24T16:25:00+00:00

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Ever wish you could quickly distill the main ideas from a dense theological article or Bible dictionary entry? Logos now offers a powerful new Summarize feature that does just that.

With just a few clicks, Logos generates a concise summary of the content you're reading—perfect for reviewing key points, preparing teaching materials, or jumpstarting your study.

Here’s how to use it:

Open any resource in your Logos library.
Select the section you want summarized.
Choose Summarize from the Tools tab in the Dynamic Toolbar.
Logos will generate a quick, AI-powered summary for that section.

This works especially well with longer resources like commentaries, encyclopedias, or journal articles—anywhere you’d benefit from a bird’s-eye view.

Learn more about the Summarize feature →

📝 Try it out, and let us know:

How do you see yourself using the Summarize tool in your study or sermon prep?
Drop your thoughts (or test results!) in the comments below.

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Comments

MJ. Smith

I'm using it on monographs to create my own study guide and review questions for textbook type books. Got to keep my skills uptodate.

Joseph Valentine

Hello, I've tried your steps and can't get through them.

I know how to open summarize from the tools menu, but I'm intrigued by your suggestion to right-click and choose summarize from the context menu. I don't see an option for summarize.

I've tried selecting headwords and other parts of the article, but the right-click-context-menu does not show summarize. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your ongoing contributions!

Jason Stone (Logos)

You are correct in that I poorly worded and was mistaken in my instructions, @Joseph Valentine. I have edited the post above.

Joseph Valentine

Thanks, Jason! BTW, having the "summarize" option in the context menu would be a wonderful upgrade!

Lynden O. Williams

My struggle is increasing the font size of the summarize pane.

GaoLu

I find this more useful all the time.

Allen Browne

So long as we all know not to trust it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/mypillow-ceos-lawyers-used-ai-in-brief-citing-fictional-cases-judge-says/

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1367550#Comment_1367550

That reminder is necessary. AI is a helpful source of possible references. Often. Each source must be validated and evaluated for relevance and validity. I think of it like Google search: scan the list of results to see if anything interesting pops up. Then apply intellect and wisdom to determine if what you found on the internet is reliable.

I believe we need to give people credit for having the ability to understand and use AI this way.

It's like the meme going around about how, a few years ago where people received a car instruction manual with instructions on how to do a valve job. Nowadays, they get a large-print glossy paper with a large red exclamation mark indicating not to drink the battery's contents. I trust that most Logosians are of the former type and not the latter.

DMB

It's from Logos. I trust it. Now, for some Koolaid … thirsty!

Unfortunately, in this time-compressed world, many people will eventually succumb to AI's 'efficiencies' and stop checking. I've seen a few on this site who already have. I just keep praying for the whole situation.

Good thing I don't like Kool-aid, lol!

Greg Balzer

I love summarize. I’m a “bottom-up” person. I tend to focus on details and then identify the narrative. With books that include tons of detail - such as Judges or Kings - my brain goes into overload. I use summarize to help identify key themes before I dive into the text to get a rough idea of what is going on. Yes, this methodology runs the risk of being mislead, but it helps me get enough momentum to complete the Biblical book. Summarize is a helpful tool in the toolbox.

Jacob Hantla

The "summarize" feature is a good AI starting point (I do appreciate it and have found uses, primarily to see where a text is going before I invest the time to read it). but for those who are using AI regularly to help digest content, the helpful part isn't merely summarizing, but being able to interact with and ask questions of the AI that has read the content we are considering.

IMHO the AI feature and "summarize" needs to move to this pretty quickly to be helpful.