Search by Highlight Style?
Is there a way to search by a particular highlight style?
As I'm reading my bibles, like a lot of people, I highlight certain texts using different colors which have unique meanings for me. For example:
Green highlighter = Faith
Green highlighter with wavy underline = Righteousness by Faith
Red highlighter = Sacrifice, Christ's love, OT foreshadowings of Christ's sacrifice
Etc. I use 20+ different styles for different things.
Hence my question. Is there a way to do a search to pull up ALL the texts I've highlighted on faith by searching for JUST the green highlighted texts?
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Lloyd Claycomb said:
Is there a way to do a search to pull up ALL the texts I've highlighted on faith by searching for JUST the green highlighted texts?
In the Bible Search panel use the little arrow under 'All Bible text' to access this ability:
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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you might also want to view the wiki page: Finding
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Mark A. Smith said:Lloyd Claycomb said:
Is there a way to do a search to pull up ALL the texts I've highlighted on faith by searching for JUST the green highlighted texts?
In the Bible Search panel use the little arrow under 'All Bible text' to access this ability:
Awesome! That's great. This is a huge feature for me.
But as a follow up, how would I go about looking up EVERY text I have highlighted with "blue highlighter"? What I mean is what if I'm not looking up any particular word with blue highlighting, but I want to look up EVERY verse with blue highlighting. How could I go about doing that?
I tried searching for " " thinking that every verse would have a space in it, but it seems to only want to search for words and ignores spaces.
Thanks so much for your help thus far!
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I tried searching for a * and it seems to just freeze up the system and never gives any results. ??
EDIT: I guess it DOES work. But something must be wrong. It took 5 minutes to get 5 results. That can't be right, can it? I have a super fast computer, so it can't be on my end.
Any ideas?
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What was the actual search that you did? The one that took 5 minutes to get 5 results. I will try the same search on mine. I am on a AMD Quad core 8 MB Ram.
Do you know how to post your logs? http://wiki.logos.com/Diagnostic_Logging
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Lloyd Claycomb said:
I guess it DOES work. But something must be wrong. It took 5 minutes to get 5 results. That can't be right, can it? I have a super fast computer, so it can't be on my end.
It takes a long time, you must have missed the note in the wiki
Someone from Logos mentioned that this was not really a supported method (e.g. using * to search for everything). But it seems to work [:)]
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I have nothing helpful to add, but I have an exclamation. That's just amazing! You can search by highlight type for text. Astounding!
John Weathersby
Harrisburg, PA.
www.transcendchurch.org
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steve clark said:
After you do a search for Highlighting, you can save the passages to a Passage List and label it Contents.... That way you have a table of contents to your highlighted text.
Good idea. Just remember that, when you highlight another text, you must add it to the PL in order to keep it current.
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William Bingham said:
What was the actual search that you did? The one that took 5 minutes to get 5 results. I will try the same search on mine. I am on a AMD Quad core 8 MB Ram.
Sorry for my delayed response. I just came back to this. Opps.
I can't remember what I did the first time around, but I just did test one now. I highlighted some text in Gen 1:1, Ezek 1:1, Matt 1:1, Rev. 1:1. Then I did a search on that particular highlighting using *. My results came back in 67 seconds. Much better than the other search I did, but it isn't the same search which took over 5 minutes.
I just did a search on one of my 415-book collections and it took 670 seconds to get 5 results.
I'm on a powerhorse of a computer. 24 Gigs DDR3 ram, 6-Core i7, overclocked and liquid cooled 3.66 GHZ on Windows 7.
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Lloyd Claycomb said:
I can't remember what I did the first time around, but I just did test one now. I highlighted some text in Gen 1:1, Ezek 1:1, Matt 1:1, Rev. 1:1. Then I did a search on that particular highlighting using *. My results came back in 67 seconds. Much better than the other search I did, but it isn't the same search which took over 5 minutes.
I just did a search on one of my 415-book collections and it took 670 seconds to get 5 results.
I'm on a powerhorse of a computer. 24 Gigs DDR3 ram, 6-Core i7, overclocked and liquid cooled 3.66 GHZ on Windows 7.
The Bible search for wildcard character is probably much faster than a Basic search through your entire library. The reason why this is so slow (if I search my entire library for * with some highlighting style it takes about an hour), is that it can't use the index at all, because * matches every single word. So it has to do a brute force search. They have not put any effort (yet) into optimizing this kind of search since they'd never intended the wildcard character to be used for searching for highlighting. But now that people have discovered they can, and are doing it, and wanting it to be faster, I think they're going to have to do something. I'd be thrilled to get results in 5 minutes or even 670 seconds in my 3384-book library.
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