Note Taking Symbols for Bible Study

I spend a good portion of my time taking notes on index cards or a legal pad before entering anything into Logos. It would save me a mountain of time if I could have a set of symbols and abbreviations to mark scripture references. Some are the obvious ones like TDNT WBC, or Grk , but I'd like to go further. Rather than reinventing the wheel, I thought some of you might know of a good starting listing on the internet that I could use or modify. So often I look at a card and can't figure out what some reference I wrote days earlier ties to what project or source is implied.

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MJ. Smith

For abbreviations of sources, taking the standard list from abbreviated titles and the list of abbreviations in the front of major reference works should do.Or some publications keep a list of standard abbreviations. I'd keep a note containing a list of my abbreviations in alphabetically so that I could interpret any I forgot and avoid accidental duplicates.

Some universities in their study skills training suggest that you color you notes - separate colors for quotations, summaries etc. http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/03/12.cfm is an example.

As for projects, I'd have to know they types of projects you are separating to know if some scheme has already been invented. In the beta, I'm trying to match my scheme to the new possibilities.

mab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/303082#Comment_303082

I think my breakdown for projects would be geared to either exegesis or usage which might be

Topical

Application

Blog

Lectionary

Sermon

There's no reason why usage can't overlap, but I'm looking at it as the primary short term project.

mab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/303110#Comment_303110

I just stumbled onto this as a possible starting point.

http://wiki.logos.com/Common_Resource_Abbreviations

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/303110#Comment_303110

That's few enough that I would simply assign a shape from the possibilities in beta to each category:

Philana Crouch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/303082#Comment_303082

For abbreviations of sources, taking the standard list from abbreviated titles and the list of abbreviations in the front of major reference works should do.Or some publications keep a list of standard abbreviations. I'd keep a note containing a list of my abbreviations in alphabetically so that I could interpret any I forgot and avoid accidental duplicates.

Some universities in their study skills training suggest that you color you notes - separate colors for quotations, summaries etc. http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/03/12.cfm is an example.

As for projects, I'd have to know they types of projects you are separating to know if some scheme has already been invented. In the beta, I'm trying to match my scheme to the new possibilities.

MJ. - Thanks for posting this link...with the ability to color code the background of individual notes in beta, this color coding system would work. You could see all of your quotations, summaries ect. by color at a glance.