How to quickly find definitions in the iPad app

Jerry M

1. Double tap or press and hold any word.

2. Tap copy.

3. Tap screen at the top to bring up the reference window. (It doesn't matter if it is a novel or Bible.)

4. Tap the reference window to get focus.

5. Tap the x in the window to erase the current script.

6. Tap the window twice.

7. Tap paste.

8. Tap your pasted word twice.

9. Tap define. Your definition will appear in a drop down window. After a few times this procedure goes quickly. It works for Vyrso too. It doesn't change the page you are on.

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JT (alabama24)

I haven't tried it yet, but great tip! [Y]

Thanks Jerry!

But shouldn't this be easier and more obvious?

Peter

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/336955#Comment_336955

But shouldn't this be easier and more obvious?

Jerry is using the define feature built into iOS. This is not a feature of the Logos app.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/336957#Comment_336957

Yeah, that was a rhetorical question for Team Logos.

I actually didn't realize the Define feature works on all input boxes. Good to know (for other apps that don't directly provide dictionary definitions).

Thanks!

Peter

Jerry M

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/336955#Comment_336955

Thanks Jerry!

But shouldn't this be easier and more obvious?

Peter

I expect it will in the future. I suppose the reason many of the features of this app aren't documented is that it is changing so fast. I wish there was a place to go like the wiki where issues about linking, definitions, highlighting etc. were answered in a quick reference kind of way instead of digging for them.

Edit: See above where this is not actually a feature of the app.