How-To: Save Study Layout?

This is pretty simple (I think), but even working in IT I haven't quite figured it out yet (not that I have dedicated a lot of time to it). I tend to study a few different passages simultaneously and I love the way Logos lays everything out for me - but then when I close out of the program and load it back up - I'm at the home page. I'd like to "save" and be able to load the different "search results" with the layout of resources, scriptures, commentaries, notes, etc. that I have for a specific passage and be able to load them when I next run Logos - or even swap between them within a session. For example, right now I am looking at Nahum in my personal studies, at John for the morning sermons, and at Luke for the youth group meetings. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dave.

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Rosie Perera

Turn off "Show home page at startup" on the Customize menu (lower left of home page), and Logos will start back up the way you left it when you closed it.

Mark Smith

Dave,

Besides what Rosie suggested, you can learn how to save custom layouts for each of your primary uses. Check out:

http://wiki.logos.com/Layouts#Layout_Management_.28how_to_create_or_customize_your_Layout.29

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/152450#Comment_152450

What I do is that I have a few main layouts saved and, since I like to look at the Home Page, I save my last activity on my sermon preparation to MyWork layout and continue to work on my sermon (after I do my devotion and other things) with the MyWork layout. So that is the layout that keeps my next sermon preparation together.

It is much better IMHO to have "specialized" layouts than to try to do all possible things (devotion, sermon preparation, book reading etc) all in one layout.

David A Egolf

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/152450#Comment_152450

As Mark mentions some people view the use of layouts as fixed templates serving as starting points for studies of a different type.; e.g., one layout for original language study and another for writing sermons.

Another view is supported by a recent feature added a few months back which allows one to resave a named layout. I have many "desktops";i.e., layouts. As I make progress in study X, I open and close resources, perform searches, and move around in references. When it is time to change gears and go to study Y, I want to save the progress I have made.

When it is time to pause and go do a lesson plan, for instance, I resave my layout which is usually different from the one I started with during this session. The "resave" is done by right clicking on the "pencil" icon next the layout name and choosing the "Update to current snapshot" option.

By maintaining several sets of layouts, I can have multiple desktops which correspond to completely different endeavors.

Of course, using layouts in this fashion does not preclude you from also having appropriate "starting templates" as mentioned above. One can even retune the starting templates by adjusting the starting snapshot. This might be useful as one changes personal techniques and adds resources.

Tes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/152450#Comment_152450

Dave,

Besides what Rosie suggested, you can learn how to save custom layouts for each of your primary uses. Check out:

http://wiki.logos.com/Layouts#Layout_Management_.28how_to_create_or_customize_your_Layout.29

Thank you Mark.I didn't know how to update it.Is there any detail informations,where I can refer such as this for other functions? I would love to know ,where your location is,if you don't mind ,since you are my freind through the forum,it would be good if you could type it in the heading ''we have become friends through the forum''. Thank you againd God bless you.

Dave Mackey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/152524#Comment_152524

Thanks folks! This makes life so much easier!