Prioritize resources by type

Phil Gons (Logos)

Please allow us to prioritize our resources in separate categories.

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MJ. Smith

This is a definite improvement. I would also like to be able to apply advanced priorities to a collection.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

Dreaming of a Faceted Library tab next to a Faceted Prioritization tab (where Prioritization facets correspond to Language & Type combinations used). Tab allows longer Resource titles to appear (some titles need many words to see difference).

When user has not specified prioritization, showing default order (in a different color/font: e.g. Black/Bold for user's choice & Dark Gray/Normal for default) would allow user to see Prioritization order of their Library Resources (so can drag resource from Library to desired Prioritization order). * would appreciate a way to reset Prioritization for a Language & Type combination back to default.

Prioritization category combinations could have "More ..." so Top Ten initially appear, which can be expanded if desired.

GregW

Either doing this or having faceted browsing on prioritisation would be a huge bonus. My prioritised resources have become so complicated I've created dummy personal books for each type to try to bring some order to the list.

unknown

I hope this is implemented soon. It has been a frustration of mine for years.

unknown

Re: Two Separate Modifications

1) The ability to sort/organize the Library Types by more than just the number of works in a subcategory. Add the ability to sort them alphabetically which is the most natural way to look through them
2) Add the ability to created Highlighted Headings for Categories in the Prioritization List. eg. Bible (highlighted yellow) and Commentaries - Single Volume (highlighted light blue) and Commentaries - Series (highlighted light green) and Dictionaries - English and Dictionaries - Greek and Dictionaries - Hebrew. The ability to embed separator lines between sections/books too.

unknown

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1328442#Comment_1328442

@rrnowell-54 It would be nice to have visual separators like a line or a highlighted string of text identifying different categories of resources in the Preferred/Prioritized Resources box… some like Bibles and Commentaries and Dictionaries and Hebrew Dictionaries and Greek Dictionaries like Morris mentions in his tutorial. Ideally it would be user entered text with a user selected highlight color.

Thank you again for listening.

Robert

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Dave Hooton

Bible Commentaries in PG include 3 types - Bible Commentary, Bible Notes, Study Bible. And we like to divide them into various categories - Expositional, Exegetical,Application which correspond to the Collections we use in PG. Also, Encyclopedias and Concordances can be used in Topic Guide. So a simple prioritization by Type is not good enough. If standard headings are provided e.g. Bible Commentaries, Bible Dictionaries for the above categories, we need to insert our own headings, particularly for Commentaries.

A default order of standard headings would also prevent some errors e.g.
1. Bibles (type:bible)
- user to prioritize by modern languages and original languages
2. Bible Commentaries (type:Bible Commentary, Bible Notes, Study Bible)
3. Bible Dictionaries (type:Encyclopedia, Bible Concordance)
4. Modern Language Dictionaries (type:dictionary)
5. Lexicons (type:lexicon)
- user to prioritize by original languages
- Greek Septuagint lexicons should follow Greek NT lexicons
- Theological lexicons should follow Analytical lexicons
6. Lectionaries (type:lectionary)
7. Devotionals (type:calendar devotional)
8. Other - e.g. type:Ancient Manuscript

Tom Vidal

This would be a welcome improvement.

danwdoo

At the very minimum!

Nathan M Hall

A great suggestion!

NB.Mick

Technically prioritization works on indexes not resource types , and said indexes are exposed in the information tool , but not the library - yet. Simply exposing those in the library and having us prioritize by index would be much more straightforward and also prevent current hickups like prioritizing a bible that contains a tiny glossary and thus stealing the priority of a bible dictionary

unknown

I see 3 issues in this scope:
1. Prioritise resources within a collection - In Passage guide I have sections to search within collections - It would be good to prioritise these results
2. Prioritise by type within library instead of a LNG priority list. Morris Procter had a workaround with blank PBs to put titles in the priority list but it is clunky
3. A more inituitve way to get tootles for type of resource into the priority list

Anderson Abreu

Logos currently uses a simple linear list to prioritize resources, but it understands each type of resource well and will use each one in its proper place regardless of whether they are mixed with different types. But it would be nice to see a separation of each type of book.
I use them in the following sequence, even though Logos doesn't have a visible separation:
* Bible versions;
* Bibles in Hebrew, Greek and Latin; dictionaries and lexicons;
* study Bibles;
* commentaries;
* symbols of faith (creeds, catechisms, confessions);
* systematic theologies.

If you had a line separating each type it would be useful to visualize.

unknown

I need this too.

Justin Walker

This is so basic that I can’t believe they haven’t done this already.

unknown

This would help me organize my resources.

Jeremy Hulsey

I can't believe that Faithlife has not improved the functionality of this tool.

Ian Carmichael

Excellent suggestion. At present, with a large library the prioritization list is almost unworkable. When type grouping, and personal heading are possible, this will be rich for power users. Especially if the priority list can be condensed to headings or expanded to detail at will.

unknown

Yes. This is an important organizational approach and is lacking even in this age of Logos Pro

unknown

Yes! This would be immensely useful.

unknown

This would be very helpful!

unknown

Definitely needs improvement

unknown

Please help 1.By Type 2. Insert, not just to the bottom of the list

unknown

Yes, this would be a big help

unknown

This would help

Anderson Abreu

There is the option of dragging a collection/series of books from the Library to a specific place in the prioritization, but when I want to prioritize just one book in a series of biblical commentaries, I have to click on “Prioritize this book”, it will appear at the bottom of the list of a hundred books that I have prioritized, and I will have to drag it upwards through a hundred books until I reach the place where I want the book to be prioritized. This needs to be improved to make it easier for us. It's terribly bad the way it works today!

Jon cody

I had a different suggestion regarding prioritization here:
https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/better-prioritization-of-books-and-library-management

unknown

this would be an improvement

Shara H (Logos)

divide my Prioritized Books into categories/headers? (i.e. Bibles, Commentaries, Lexicons, etc.) This would make my list a lot easier to read. Even if Logos could allow spaces in the list that would help.

hjsmithjr50

Agreed

unknown

Crazy that this hasn't been changed yet. This is one of the most confusing parts of the software, and updating this functionality would benefit everyone immensely.

unknown

Yes!

Jason Stone

There's a work around out there thanks to @Michel Pauw, but I'd love to see improvements here. Upvoted!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qag0E3zkws

Ron Baughman

This should be an easy sell to the Logos Developers. Can’t wait for this to be available.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353166#Comment_1353166

The last time Logos looked at redoing the prioritization as part of a major release, the project never got off the design table … this is a surprising intractable problem with many apparent "simple" solutions until you look at the details.

Dawnielle Alden

Yes Please!

Chuck Leutwyler

I have a suggestion for the software developers that would make prioritizing books in our libraries a little more systematic and easy.
It would be nice to be able to prioritize by category instead of just one big list that causes a person to scroll up and down your list of chosen books. In other words, prioritize the top 10 bibles under the category of bibles. Then click the category of study bibles and prioritize the top 10 study bibles. Then choose the category of commentaries and prioritize the top 10 commentaries and so on. Right now it is to cumbersome and frustrating.

Chris Hilling

I agree with Chuck. If I recall correctly, Wordsearch did something like that and it was so much easier.

Why not place prioritization in the settings and have a place to list our top 10 (or whatever number) of each category? Have a dropdown menu for top Bibles, Single-Volume Commentary, Commentary Series, Bible Dictionary, Word Study, etc., then we can easily go back to settings and adjust the order of each category whenever we want? It would be much cleaner, and we would know exactly which resources Logos pulls from for each type of category.