It would help my workflow for the "Copy Search Study Share" box to open more quickly after highlighting some text. How can I adjust this? I am on a MBP 2021 M1 Pro.
Ross
It would help my workflow for the "Copy Search Study Share" box to open more quickly after highlighting some text
What sort of lag are you seeing? On a quick text, I'm seeing the Selection Menu appear in under a second.
Yes, on a fresh boot of the system, the quick text is about a second or so. That sounds fast, but functionally it is not; it is not at the speed of mental workflow. I bet I am just average on these things, but if it were faster (or give us a setting to adjust it so I could be faster), it would help my workflow. Functionally, the software should not be putting any barriers to work, just providing resources and benefits, right? I believe Apple sometimes introduces delays in menus, but there are ways to adjust them. I'd really like this particular menu to be faster.
Thank you.
I'm sure you think I'm harping on nothing here, but this quote from the All-In Podcast from a discussion on AI inference illustrates my point. The lags in Logos ("Copy Search Study Share" box, the "Layouts" icon, etc.) (there are so many places) hurt the flow of Bible Study.
[Start quote from All-In Podcast, discussion with Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras]
“So we have customers like Cognition who use us to power their coding engine. All right. And if you read the tweets and you read people's comments, they're odd. There is zero latency between their request and their answer. So they can stay in the flow as they write code. All right. And so this is the idea. The idea is you shouldn't have to wait at all. And Claude, it's not an anthropic, it's not a customer, but we recently announced OpenAI. Right. They were original investors. They were. And now they've just put in a major purchase order. They have. And this is really exciting. And part of it, I think, was because what we could do is we could deliver extraordinary speed so that the user experience changed. And as we know, having watched Google, Larry and Sergey, Marissa, the team over there came to a conclusion. And when we shave off milliseconds, it's the number one way we get usage to go up. That's exactly right. Urs published that paper years ago that said even milliseconds, even amounts of time that the individual user doesn't recognize as important. That's exactly. What is the psychological? Just noticeable “perception, I believe. Your mom would know. She's a behavioral scientist. She would know. Just noticeable. It's 15% of whatever the number is. So like if you could cut 15% off the time, people... They use it more. They leave less. Yes. Paul Graham had a great tweet. He said, I'd use Google half as much if ChatGPT weren't so slow. If you think about that, that's what happens. While you're waiting for Claude or you're waiting for ChatGPT, you get a coffee or you poke around somewhere else, and you've lost the customer. That's the cost of being slow, is the customer has gone somewhere else.”
From All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg: Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!, Jan 23, 2026 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-jason-sacks-friedberg/id1502871393?i=1000746374540&r=2856 This material may be protected by copyright.
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I think this validates my point on lag and delay. I haven't read the URS paper, but as it relates to the science and psychology of technoly, perhaps many of us should. Now, the lag is not causing me to go somewhere else because I'm doing devotions, study, and sermon/teaching prep because I'm called to it. It is inherently good even if it is slow. So maybe Logos says, "we have a captive audience; we don't have to improve performance because where will they go?" But in practice Logos has many, many places where my work flow stops and has to restart. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I humble suggest that you would be serving your customers, the work of Bible Study, and your own company goals, if you could shave off 15+% of the lag. And then do that again year by year.
Are you talking about this box which pops up when you highlight text say in a Bible?
It's instantaneous on a Mac. Your problem is likely elsewhere (hardware, OS version, driver versions, memory availability what else is running at the time, any slightly-rogue extensions or utilities not properly optimized, or just an old computer). If you share more specifics about your environment and specs someone may be able to advise on how to make some improvements.
It's instantaneous on a Mac.
Instantaneous on Windows 11 PC for me as well.
Thank you for the thought response.
I'm on a 2021 MBP M1 Pro with 16GB Ram, MacOS 26.2, and on a fresh reboot, that Pop-up and the Layout button, especially, among other things, are not at all instantaneous.
I'd value your help.
. So is a 2021 MBP M1 Pro considered an old computer?
. What do you mean by "driver version?"
. How do I check for "any slightly-rogue extensions or utilities not properly optimized?"
. Other things to investigate?
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