📒 Feature Focus: Logos Highlights
Hello Logos Community,
Today, let's shine a spotlight on a fundamental yet incredibly powerful tool in your Logos toolkit: Highlights. It's more than just marking text; it's about visually organizing your insights and making your Bible truly yours.
Highlights allow you to visually categorize and emphasize passages that resonate with you, reveal a theme, or require deeper study. Whether you're tracking theological concepts, identifying sermon points, or simply marking passages for memorization, a well-designed highlighting strategy brings your study to life.
How Highlights Help Your Study:
- Visual Organization: Create custom highlighting styles and palettes to color-code different themes, doctrines, or personal applications. This visual system helps you quickly grasp patterns and connections across your text.
- Multi-Version Consistency: Review your highlights across different Bible versions. What you've marked in one translation can be visible in another, providing a consistent visual reference as you compare texts.
- Efficient Review: Just like notes, you can sort your highlights by Bible book, making it incredibly simple to review all your marked passages from a specific book or section of Scripture.
Highlights transform your digital Bible into a dynamic, personalized study companion. They help you quickly revisit key passages and reinforce what you're learning.
Learn More About Highlights →
I would love to hear from you! What's your favorite way to use the Highlights feature in Logos? Do you have a unique color-coding system or a specific workflow that helps your study? Share your tips and tricks (and helpful screenshots) in the comments below!
Sr. Community Manager at Logos.
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Some time ago @Mark Barnes (Logos) referenced looking into Logos integrating highlights with Readwise.io. Any updates on that?
If Logos did that, my Kindle & Kobo purchases would default to Logos instead. Readwise highlights & review are the best way of revisiting highlights.
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I'm unsophisticated with highlights. What gives me joy is a good variety of roygbiv/vibgyor colours on each page, preferably lots of pretty pastels. Really!
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The only time I use highlights now is in visual filters.
I basically gave up using highlights in any other way for three reasons
- They create a note for each highlight. If I wanted a note with a highlight I would create a note from the notes tool to begin with and add the highlight from the menu inside the note's toolbar.
- My use of highlights was only for marking up text temporarily while I was reading through a book, because there is not a convenient way in my opinion to delete them (especially if there is a lot of them) it wasn't worth the hassle.
- When I did use a highlight along with its corresponding note, hovering over it doesn't give me a pop up sample of the note like a note symbol/icon does that is next to the anchored text or selection of an actual note does.
Too soon old. Too late smart.
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Agree, agree, agree. I do highlight but then delete them all. I just hate a book with someone's highlights.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I use it to visualise who’s talking, a turning point, or the verse that pop out, that helps a lot in Bible study.
I don’t like to highlight my physical Bible, so in Logos where I just use it freely because I can always undo is such a joy, thank God!
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I gave an example of my use of Highlights here.
Will the request to separate Notes and Highlights be pursued by Logos ?
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By the way, regarding the Web App:
Could we bring the possibility to use all Highlighters to the Web App (not only the last used ones)?
Could the Preview Colors be shown when choosing a Highlighter in the Web App? Mine only show a grey field (and the name when hovering over it).
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I highlight everything possible so my chldren's children's children can someday subscribe to Logos and see great-grandpa's highlights. But which great grandkid inherits a million highlights?
Just kidding!
I have extensively complex and sophisticated highlighting pallettes which I seldom if ever use. But they were fun to make.
What I actually use :
- Yellow for stuff I might want to catch my eye next week. (mapped to Y key)
- Green for stuff that is almost but quite as important as yellow. (mapped to G key)
- Purple for meh-level importance, but noteworthy. (mapped to P key)
- Orange for stuff that is super critical!!! (mapped to O key but i always for get this)
- Red for warning, this may be over the top important. Used rarely because I don't care for the color red unless it's my wife's hair. (Might be mapped to R key, I cant remember)
- Blue is balderdash. Horrible theology. Sit up and take note how wrong this is! (yep, the B key)
The idea, years ago, was that I could someday search for stuff by topic, importance, etc. Trouble is, I never did that.
More usefully, I mixed and matched colors (depending on my mood and whatever color was handy) to separate ideas. Now that was useful!
One more super-useful thing: I mapped numbers to my numbers. Punch the 1 key, and a happy little encircled 1 pops up by a word or idea in a list. 2, 3-9, same idea. I use that now and then. I like lists.
I would probably go back and remove all highlights (poor great-grandkids), but it's too much trouble. I just shut off visual filters and voila! My book is pure and pristine.
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I'm still trying to figure out how to divorce highlights from notes… Not every time I highlight a verse or paragraph I have something to say about that verse or paragraph….
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Think of it as Highlights OR Notes OR Highlights with Note. No divorce is needed - it is simply a matter of how you choose to us it.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship.";Â Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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