what does it mean to anchor a name?

Kristin · 2025-06-08T15:25:15+00:00

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I personally always tag references, but I am wondering what it even means to anchor a name. I originally thought it meant the note would appear wherever the person's name is, or topic, or whatever, but since that does not seem to be the case, I am wondering what it means.

For example, I meant to type "2cor 9" but I accidentally typed 2wor 9 which produced various names. So just out of curiosity I clicked on the first option, but then when I go to the relevant verse there is not an anchor.

So could someone explain what the point of that option is?

Thanks.

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Aaron Hamilton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1371437#Comment_1371437

My testing and experience with this is limited. I saw that one word I added as an anchor opened a Bible Word Study while another opened Factbook. I would expect the link to lead to Factbook where a Factbook entry is available.

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Francis

@Kristin

Kristin

Hi @Francis, thank you for the screenshot, but I am still kind of confused about this. I thought the point of an anchor is that it would show one of those anchor symbols in the text at the relevant spot. But it appears that the name only shows as an anchor in the note itself, but not the text, so what is the point of having it as an anchor?

Aaron Hamilton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1371433#Comment_1371433

Anchors are primarily designed for references. If you would like an anchor to show at the reference, then you would have to anchor the reference, not the person. I have not been in the habit of adding nouns as anchors, but I see that doing so provides links to other tools like Factbook or Bible Word Study. I suppose such shortcuts connected to notes could be helpful for some.

Kristin

Hi @Aaron Hamilton, I only anchor references, so I admit this question and post was just out of curiosity. If I understand correctly, if someone anchors a name or topic or something in their notes, it will not show as an anchor in the text. However, if while in the note they click on the anchor, it will open a Factbook page about it. Is this correct?

Aaron Hamilton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1371437#Comment_1371437

Kristin

Hi @Aaron Hamilton,

Ok, interesting. I never use it, but I am sure there is some random person out there who finds it helpful to anchor topics and names. Thank you for clarifying this.

MJ. Smith

There are several posts in the forums on using lemmas and headwords as anchors so it is not uncommon.

Morgan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1371441#Comment_1371441

It's one of the more frustrating features of notes. If I want to anchor a note to the entire book of Job there's no way to tell if I'm anchoring to the passage, the person, or something else. Just a long list of Job's.

Kristin

Hey @Morgan, I think the two things which frustrate me about notes is needing to anchor verses one by one by one… and the other issue is that if I want a note to show on Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2, there is no way to do it. I can understand Gen 1:1-2 only showing on Gen 1:1, but not really when the two verses are anchored separately.

Anyway, given your specific case, have you looked into note tags? It is not the same as an anchor, but maybe you could create a tag of "Job" which would capture all your Job note. Is your goal for the anchor to show on ever verse?

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1371450#Comment_1371450

This may be too many steps, but if you highlight the text instead and add the selected text as an anchor instead of the reference range, it will include the icon separately for each selection. I think Logos assumes you are highlighting the text, so you can see there is a note and access it regardless of the note icon. It is less convenient than mousing over the icon, though.

Kristin

Hi @Justin Gatlin, thanks for letting me know, and ya, i do that with extrabiblical material and find it helpful. With biblical books I only use references as anchors and am only occasionally reminded how people might anchor a word when I spell something incorrectly while trying to anchor it.