Book, Chapter, Verse and Bible Version missing when exporting notes

Christian Wagner · 2025-07-01T06:45:10+00:00

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Description:
I recently tried to export a lot of notes. On screen the list of notes shows the Book, Chapter, Verse and Bible Version of each note, but the export files are lacking this data.

Steps to Reproduce:
- open the Notes tab
- Type: select Notes
- Notebook: select a topic
- click on the 3-dot menu and select "Print/Export"
- choose PDF or Richt Text Format
- open the document
- see that the Book, Chapter, Verse and Bible Version of each note is missing

Expected Result:

To have a properly formatted document which includes the Book, Chapter, Verse and Bible Version of each note.

Actual Result:

In the exported file (pdf or rtf) all the scripture references are missing.

Partial Workarounds:

The only way to see the scripture reference for those existing notes seems to be to manually add an additional "Reference Anchor" to each note before export, but even then the source Bible Version is not shown. It is even worse for notes attached to regular books, as no page numbers are shown anywhere and I cannot even find a way to add a meaningful "reference".

I cannot believe that currently people have to manually edit hundreds or possibly thousands of notes just to be able to get a partially usable Notes export. How do others currently work around this issue?

I actually get a more usable version of the notes by letting ChatGPT convert the screenshot to Markdown, but this does not scale beyond maybe 10 notes.

Severity:

Severe, as the exported notes arte unusable without that data. This issue seems to have been ignored for many years. I have seen bug reports for Logos 6 relating to this issue from over 11 years ago and I cannot believe, that this has not been fixed or improved somehow.

Am I missing something here and I just have to change a setting somewhere?

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The Day of The Lord.pdf

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Comments

MJ. Smith

Speaking for myself, I rarely have need to export my notes and when I do it is usually for a constrained set of reference that I don't need shown.

Christian Wagner

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373098#Comment_1373098

Well, this is a reminder to developers, testers, and users not to assume their needs represent everyone else's. Maybe explaining my use case or workflow will make this more apparent:

When I study a certain topic, I create a new Notebook where I gather many scriptures relevant to that topic. Here for example: "The day of the Lord". Each scripture then has highlights and short comments. After this initial scriptural survey, I might include other relevant books with my personal annotations.

Since Logos does not provide the tools I need to make use of these Notes internally and I prefer to use my own word processing and presentation software, I need a usable export of these notes, preferably in RTF or Markdown format. Using such data without scripture references is quite useless. Manually adding references to hundreds of notes is impractical.

Even trying to use the Logos Sermon editor does not work as expected: I apparently cannot add a list of notes, but have to add them one by one. The note that I add will show Bible Version and Chapter, but is lacking Book and Verse reference. All of this seems to be really badly thought out.

Since other Bible study software actually support this feature, this is a great oversight by Logos which is supposedly the leading software for this purpose. For example my Olive Tree Bible allows me to export all notes and highlights in CSV format complete with scripture references (https://www.olivetree.com/account/sync_export )

In Logos a simple export of a list of Notes complete with Book, Chapter, Verse and Bible Version reference seems to be lacking. As I stated above, maybe there is a way to accomplish what I need, but I cannot find it. If there is, please let me know.

Doc B

No, you are not missing anything. Yes, this is a serious functional limitation that I don't think Logos has considered as serious. (This has been raised with them in the past, and the response was, "we'll think about it.")

I collect textual variant info from different sources (all versified) and the inability to export with a verse reference is a deal-breaker for doing what I need to do.

Joe McCune (Faithlife)

@Christian Wagner @Doc B I can understand why this functionality is important to you, but I feel this can be better handled as a feature request than as a bug report.

I know this has been reported and discussed before, but it was harder to follow and track suggestions in our old system.

I can't find an existing suggestion for this feature, although it is certainly possible I have missed something.

I recommend making a new feature request for this.

Doc B

…the old, 'it's not a bug, it's a feature' tact. 😂🤣😂

@Jason Stone (Logos) how about putting a button at the bottom of these replies that allows us to "convert this bug report into a feature request"?

Jason Stone (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373368#Comment_1373368

Community Managers have the ability to change post types from Discussion or Question to Idea. This capability is intentionally limited, as allowing all users to make such changes could lead to confusion within the community.

Christian Wagner

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373290#Comment_1373290

Well, apparently the current feature request for notes exports with proper references has been around for at least 4 years. Apparently not that easy to find, even in the new system. I have added my vote and comment there.

Export Highlight / Note with Citation / Reference
https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1329225

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1329225#Comment_1329225

Daniel A. Peterson

@Jason Stone (Logos) do you have any progress to report on where improvements to the Notes tool and notes export reside on the developers’ backlog? These requests seem to be languishing.

Christian Wagner

I meant to link to the feature request below:

Export Highlight / Note with Citation / Reference
https://community.logos.com/discussion/227182/export-highlight-note-with-citation-reference
(this should link to the top of the discussion, rather than one of the comments)

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373665#Comment_1373665

Yep … early comments were in late months of Logos8.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1059275#Comment_1059275

Can safely assume Faithlife staff don't export their Bible notes .. been notes updates thru the years.

Jason Stone (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373665#Comment_1373665

I have nothing to report at this time, @Daniel A. Peterson. Be sure to add your vote and context here on the feature suggestion.