The official and free Logos video tutorials and user tutorials should pretty much give you all you need to know outside of syntax searching.
Wiki has lots of information => http://wiki.logos.com/Logos_Bible_Software_Wiki including syntax search => http://wiki.logos.com/A_Strategy_for_Syntax_Search and http://wiki.logos.com/Setting_up_a_Syntax_Search
Keep Smiling [:)]
It would be so nice if Mo's manuals were also in digital form, particularly for us who are overseas and face horrendous postal charges. Or is that Mo's way of encouraging us to attend a seminar? [;)]
The official Logos video tutorials (including some done by Morris Proctor who is the licensed trainer who does the Camp Logos seminars, and some done by Logos employees) are at http://www.logos.com/videos.
The user-created video tutorials are at http://wiki.logos.com/Logos_4_Video_Tutorials
I don't know of a downloadable user manual for Logos 4 that ever existed. Morris Proctor's 2-volume print-based user's manual for Logos 4 are available for purchase (Volume 1 and Volume 2), but are not in digital format yet. However I think he's open to the idea of it, he just hasn't committed to doing it. It would be a bear to keep it up-to-date fast enough, though, as Logos is constantly changing with new versions released every couple of months.
There's the built in Help file, but it's fairly minimal. There is a downloadable user's manual for Logos 3 written by Carl Bosma, but that isn't free, and it won't help you much with Logos 4.
The fact that Logos doesn't have a good, thorough, user's manual, available free with the product, and available in digital format as well as print-based, is a real weakness that many of us have bugged them about. However it isn't likely to change any time soon. It's been something they've never done. They've always outsourced their user's manuals, and they always seem to be an afterthought. Even the free print-based ones that used to ship with the early versions of Logos (made by outside parties) were not very thorough.
We power users are attempting to address the weakness by making the wiki be the primo place for all learning about Logos. But we're just a bunch of volunteers doing this in our spare time. I do really wish Logos would create a User Ed team to do some awesome, timely, and free training materials. But I'm not holding my breath.
SHould be easier to update a digital manual than a printed book![;)]
And thank you all for all the work you do on the wiki.
Online videos are only accessible to me when I'm away from home and can use a faster internet connection.
I don't know of a downloadable user manual for Logos 4 that ever existed. Morris Proctor's 2-volume print-based user's manual for Logos 4 are available for purchase (Volume 1 and Volume 2), but are not in digital format yet. However I think he's open to the idea of it, he just hasn't committed to doing it. It would be a bear to keep it up-to-date fast enough, though, as Logos is constantly changing with new versions released every couple of months. SHould be easier to update a digital manual than a printed book!
SHould be easier to update a digital manual than a printed book!
I was talking about a Logos format, as people had requested that. I think he's considering it. Not sure why he doesn't release PDFs of them, though I think it might have to do with how easy it would be for people to copy and send them around. I really do think something like them should be free with the product, but Mo's got to make a living too, and he's found his niche filling in for the lacuna in Logos's own training materials. It's a symbiotic relationship. I hate to think what'll happen when Mo goes... He's so good at what he does.
You could download all the online videos sometime when you have access to a faster internet connection for a few hours, burn them onto a DVD and then you can watch them from home whenever you want.
I have the videos on DVD already. It comes with the purchase. Seems like all those that bought Logos has these, right? Or, no?
I never got a DVD, since I ordered the downloadable version of the base package. Anyway that would only include the official Logos videos, which are divided into two categories on the website: there are the "Feature Videos," created by Morris Proctor, and then the "Tutorials." Actually these are mostly just brief introductions to features, not real tutorials. The user-created videos would not be on the DVD from Logos.
There is a need for something more substantial. I believe Mo is at work on a set of videos of the Camp Logos class, but as far as I know these have not been announced yet.
I know if the manuals were available in digital format, I would purchase them immediately. I would prefer them to be integrated with L4, but would still get them in pdf format.
I agree that Morris Proctor is probably hesitant in releasing them in pdf due to the ease with which people could copy them and give them to others. (There is just something wrong about Christians illegally coping a Bible software program) So from that perspective, I don't blame him for not releasing them. Maybe once the updates slow down he can make the manuals to work within the L4 program itself.
Ron
There is just something wrong about Christians illegally coping a Bible software program
You would be appalled at all the Logos products being exchanged on BitTorrent, etc. The new way resource unlocking works in L4 was intended to address that, in part, as well as make it easier for legitimate users to aquire new resources. When I was Googling for an online user's manual for Logos 4, I saw that people are sharing something by that title around too on the torrent sites, but it must be a pirated scanned copy, since I am 99.99% sure nothing like that has ever been available for sale. I would never advise getting anything through that route, tempting though it might be. Aside from being unethical, it's also dangerous (high risk of malware, scams).
