Request: A new kind of auto-generated report: content of all the articles from a topics.logos.com en
Say I'm preparing a sermon series on the book of Job (we are, in my church) and I want to go look up all the stuff that is on the Reading List for the topic "Book of Job." Well, I could click on each one in turn and look up the info. But that's time consuming. Would it be possible for Logos to generate a report that contains the content of all of the articles linked to from that Reading List? That would be really cool!
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Hey...that does sound like a good idea!
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Robert Pavich
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That's a great idea. It's basically making Power Lookup work for Reading Lists.
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This sounds useful.
A user could build their own list by downloading all the pages, then just checking the updates every week or two after that. It would be better, of course, if Logos did that automatically, and put something into a Master Topic.
Instead of Logos doing this, someone could undertake to do the downloads and build of such a Master Topic.
(More thinking required ...)
EDIT: Maybe I did not understand the question.
My answer is an attempt for the question: How can I find all the articles on Topics.Logos.com that reference the book of Job?
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JimT said:
This sounds useful.
A user could build their own list by downloading all the pages, then just checking the updates every week or two after that. It would be better, of course, if Logos did that automatically, and put something into a Master Topic.
Instead of Logos doing this, someone could undertake to do the downloads and build of such a Master Topic.
(More thinking required ...)
EDIT: Maybe I did not understand the question.
My answer is an attempt for the question: How can I find all the articles on Topics.Logos.com that reference the book of Job?
My question is designed to get around the user needing to manually generate this list. I essentially would like to see Logos implement a Power Lookup for Reading Lists, as Peter Li put it. Only even better than Power Lookup. PL usually only shows you the first couple of paragraphs of an entry, and you'd still have to click to get the full thing. I'd want to be able to automatically creaate a single document that had all the reading I wanted to do to get familiar with the topic that Reading List covers. It isn't just for Job or books in the bible that this would be useful. If anyone has created a Reading List on any topic I'm interested in learning about, it would be great to have this feature for that. The only thing I think would be difficult in the implementation of this is knowing where to stop in grabbing the text from the resources. Since the Reading List just links to the beginning of the article, it might not be the entire article which is relevant. But I'd be satisfied if Logos were to always copy the entire article into this report, and I can skim through the irrelevant bits later.
I could imagine this feature possibly being extended to the results of Passage Guides, too, however the generated report would likely be too massive to be of much use. The advantage with Reading Lists is that they are curated lists of the best stuff to read on a given topic.
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JimT said:
How can I find all the articles on Topics.Logos.com that reference the book of Job?
I've not found a way to do that yet - although I've tried a variety of 'standard' formats to the Semantic Search. I expected something like [[Key Passages:Job]] to work.
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