Feature Focus: Study Assistant 📚

This month’s release is a big one.

In fact, we’ve heard from many of you already, with one calling the new Study Assistant “the single greatest addition to Logos in 13 years.”

So what is all the buzz about?

We’ve responded to frequent requests and expanded from what we already had with Smart Search—the ability to search your library and Bible in everyday language—to then allow you to continue the conversation.

To keep following up and digging in.

Like Smart Search, Study Assistant is still:

Only pulling from books in Logos, and you can select whether it references all of them or only the ones you own. Either way, it’s not making things up like you often find with general AI or giving you answers from the entire internet.
Providing citations to the exact content referenced, so you can verify for yourself. (No guessing where the answer came from.)

It allows you to follow your curiosity to do your own study and research without needing to jump between multiple tools, and it can help spark new areas of study.

How are you using Study Assistant? What’s been most helpful?

Let us know in the comments below!

P.S. We’ve been thrilled to see all the positive community reviews rolling in. We especially loved one user's insight that Study Assistant feels like it "does the same things you always did, but much faster." We couldn't agree more.

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NichtnurBibelleser

I still don't see in which way Study Assistant is superior to Smart Search in my library (see here).
And I disagree with the answers from @Alan Palmer (Logos):

You should expect Study Assistant to run a Smart Search (either an All Search or Book Search depending on whether you are doing "All books" or "Your books", respectively) and give you a summary based on the top 5 results.

your conversation led the Study Assistant to run a search that resulted in five results but three of the five came from that one resource. The other two were presumably judged by the AI to not be sufficiently relevant.

This is based on my reading of all the works by von Balthasar. Study Assistant's judgement on this topic is too hush-hush.
Therefore, I trust AI (within Logos and using third party websites) only when I feel competent enough to know the topic better than the AI.

What remains (for me) is a search tool to find citations faster than skimming through pages or indexes.

Michelle

It's a good indexer expansion for me, as I know some but not all, so I have some keywords in mind, enter it & it'll get the result then I expand my database in my brain by reading the given results. I use it more than I use other search engine now for bible studies & I'm impressed with the results where the formatting helps in faster comprehension.

It allows you to follow your curiosity to do your own study and research without needing to jump between multiple tools, and it can help spark new areas of study.

This :) & with the easily accessible history 😍

I'm grateful that it doesn't take away the joy from the discovery of insights in bible study with Logos as I'm using one panel for highlights & structuring while searching for more information using SA in another panel.

Today's bible study was a core memory unlocked moment, carved into my memory as I can finally notice the chiasm in Daniel 12 without knowing beforehand that it was written that way having read that book in the past few years. The joy that comes in waves as layers of contrast & literary structures unveiled after another is truly precious. It reminds me of learning to ride the bicycle & suddenly I got it, the wheels just keep on turning without falling down. What a zone. PTL

The best is somehow there's an indescribable delight of the Study Assistant utilizing the resources invested. It's flowing better & smoother in a fulfilling way.

Fabian Jovanovic

the new features over the last 12 months are great. Keep up the good work.