Where did my Notes icons go?

On my Logos for iPad, I no longer see the yellow Note marker next to text I have created a note for. I have checked all the settings for Notes, as well as general App settings, and I cannot find anything that would affect that (either to turn the markers off or back on). Has anyone else experienced this?

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Graham Criddle

Maybe I am misunderstanding. I thought cuz the icon has an "A" in it that meant it was an "Anchor" icon. Seems its a "Highlight" icon instead

That is correct

So, logos keeps track of all our highlights and shows them in the "Notes" list with whatever highlight style icon you selected. Right?

It's more that it is giving us a list of highlights to choose from to apply to the text the note refers to.

This allows the colour of the highlighted text to either match the colour of the note icon or be something completely different. In the screenshot below I have added a note to the first few words of Matthew 1 and applied a different highlighting colour to the text than that used for the note icon.

Okay, when I create a note I typically either (a) select the text I have just highlighted, and in the pop-up I select Add Note, or (b) I select un-highlighted text, and in the pop-up I select Add Note. Somehow I seem to have been creating notes without a note icon selected.

These two actions (a) and (b) produce slightly different results and you can see this by looking at what has been created in the Notes Tool in each case.

When you refer to "text I have just highlighted" this is a Highlight and is stored as an element, of type Highlight, in the Notes Tool. If you select the Add Note option on this, you will create a new element in the Notes Tool of type Note. So you will have both a Note and Highlight on that portion of text.

If instead, in case (A), you choose the Edit note option from the popup you will be changing the note information in the Highlight and no additional Note is createed.

In case (b), you are creating an element of type Note in the Notes Tool.

I recommend experimenting with doing the above on a portion of text and examining what is going on in the Notes Tool to get a clearer understanding of what is going on.

Somehow I seem to have been creating notes without a note icon selected.

I think this must be the case but it's not possible for me to idenfity where. For a time, I suggest watching carefully when creating notes / highlights and checking an icon is created and trying to identify what is different if one is not.

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Graham Criddle

On my Logos for iPad, I no longer see the yellow Note marker next to text I have created a note for.

Do you mean you are no longer seeing any Notes markers or are just specific ones missing?

And is this in all books or just one (some)?

This typially happens after turning off the Show Notes / Highlights toggle in View Settings for the book you are reading

David Englund

ANY note markers. I tried toggling on/off the "Show Notes / Highlights" slider. No change. I see them on the Desktop App. I just checked the IOS App and I see them there also. Just not the iPad App.

Wait! Having seen them on the IOS App I thought about closing the iPad App and checking for updates in the App Store. No new iPad App (since 2010??), but when I re-opened it from the App Store my Note markers were back in the iPad App! I know I have tried closing and re-opening before to no avail. Don't know what was different about this time. Its a mystery to me. lol

Anyway, thankful they are back. I create a lot of Notes! :D

David Englund

@Graham Criddle, okay here is an example.

I made a note some days ago on 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, but it does not show the Note marker in the text. Also, I see here in the Notes list that it does not have either the Anchor icon or the Note icon.

Whereas, the note I made today on John 10:26 does show the Note marker in the text, and in the Notes list it shows both an Anchor icon and a Note icon.

It looks like it is easy enough to update the prior note (1 Corinthians 15:51-52) to give it both an Anchor icon and a Note icon…

So, a couple questions arise.

(1) Why when I create a note in the scripture text area is it not getting both the Note icon and Anchor icon? Do I need to do something different when I create my note to be sure it gets it's icon?

(2) Do I care whether it gets the Anchor icon in addition to the Note icon? My primary purpose is to have the note icon showing in the text so I can easily re-open a note (or hover over it to see it). I don't know that I do anything with an Anchor icon, and I have never seen one in the scripture text. What's the point of it?

Graham Criddle

Also, I see here in the Notes list that it does not have either the Anchor icon or the Note icon.

When you refer to the Anchor icon, do you mean the one I have expanded in the screenshot below? If so, as the dropdown shows this is about the style of highlight you want to apply to the text that the note relates to. If you don't mean that, please clarify

(1) Why when I create a note in the scripture text area is it not getting both the Note icon and Anchor icon? Do I need to do something different when I create my note to be sure it gets it's icon?

When we create a new note, Logos user the same icon / highlight style setting as was used for the previous note we created. Is it possible you had created a note without an icon which is causing the new one to follow suit?

David Englund

"Is it possible you had created a note without an icon which is causing the new one to follow suit?"

Brother, anything is possible! 😂

And holy cats!! All that is under "Highlight Style." 😳 (its a list about a mile long)

Maybe I am misunderstanding. I thought cuz the icon has an "A" in it that meant it was an "Anchor" icon. Seems its a "Highlight" icon instead. My bad. So, logos keeps track of all our highlights and shows them in the "Notes" list with whatever highlight style icon you selected. Right?

Okay, when I create a note I typically either (a) select the text I have just highlighted, and in the pop-up I select Add Note, or (b) I select un-highlighted text, and in the pop-up I select Add Note. Somehow I seem to have been creating notes without a note icon selected.

I think the ball is rolling around the cup now…but will it fall into the cup?? (i.e., will Dave finally figure this out? lol)

Graham Criddle

Maybe I am misunderstanding. I thought cuz the icon has an "A" in it that meant it was an "Anchor" icon. Seems its a "Highlight" icon instead

That is correct

So, logos keeps track of all our highlights and shows them in the "Notes" list with whatever highlight style icon you selected. Right?

It's more that it is giving us a list of highlights to choose from to apply to the text the note refers to.

Okay, when I create a note I typically either (a) select the text I have just highlighted, and in the pop-up I select Add Note, or (b) I select un-highlighted text, and in the pop-up I select Add Note. Somehow I seem to have been creating notes without a note icon selected.

These two actions (a) and (b) produce slightly different results and you can see this by looking at what has been created in the Notes Tool in each case.

If instead, in case (A), you choose the Edit note option from the popup you will be changing the note information in the Highlight and no additional Note is createed.

In case (b), you are creating an element of type Note in the Notes Tool.

I recommend experimenting with doing the above on a portion of text and examining what is going on in the Notes Tool to get a clearer understanding of what is going on.

Somehow I seem to have been creating notes without a note icon selected.