One Highlight Palette?

What would be the easiest/best way for me to create one "junk drawer" of highlighting palette's so that when I use a specific kind of mark up it all ends up in one highlighted/note file? I'd like to remove the four preset palette's and create just one that dumps all "notes" into a singular file.

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Danny Parker

I would be wary of having only one highlight file. Those of us that have a large number of highlights in a single file (I consolidated a number of files into one early on) are having sync problems with apps. In general large note files have had a history of problems as well. That is the reason some (including myself) have moved to book oriented note/highlight files.

It is easy enough to create and use only one though. Create a My highlights (or whatever). Set your file to use that template name and you are ready to go. If you set up shortcut keys to those highlighters you typically use, it makes it even better.

NB.Mick

What would be the easiest/best way for me to create one "junk drawer" of highlighting palette's so that when I use a specific kind of mark up it all ends up in one highlighted/note file? I'd like to remove the four preset palette's and create just one that dumps all "notes" into a singular file.

You can configure the palettes to use one file (e.g. one of the existing palette-specific files) and move the highlighting entries from the other files to this file (by opening up in two tabs and drag/dropping), then delete the empty files. That's what I did, actually: moved the few entries from "solid colors" and one other or so all to "highlighter pens", which now is the default for all highlighting.

Be aware that this may create a big file (no idea if Logos runs better or worse with one file or runs well unto a scalability boundary and then slows down).

Danny Parker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/349249#Comment_349249

By the way I don't think you can delete the preexisting templates. However, if you keep them collapsed they don't take up much space.

Specific instructions to create your own highlights using existing highlights as a model: 0. Open highlights menu 1. click on an existing template name 2. select "duplicate" It will add a new user template with the same styles 3. select the drop down from any specific highlight styles you have already used from the existing templates 4. select "restyle annotations". This will give you the option to move existing highlights to your user highlight file.

I did this and still regret it. While it is easy to combine highlights in to one file and one type of highlight, it is very time consuming to move parts of the combined single highlight into separate files/highlights. You have to do it manually, one highlight at a time.

Jeremy Writebol

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/349253#Comment_349253

Thanks everybody. That is helpful.