New Features
Just want to say thanks for the continued work on Logos. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I could tag multiple resources simultaneously. I know more has gone into it than that, but it's the little things that count.
I feel like Logos runs well on my Windows computer (about 1 yr old). It runs like a dog on my 4 yr old Mac. But now that Logos is doing so much in the cloud, it makes me wonder if you could offer an online supplement. Offer Google-like searching if you're online that returns results in 0.2 seconds that shows you results in your library (and optionally even results not in your library, with previews, to entice you to purchase more resources). You would have to offer the current indexed local search for when connectivity was gone or the cloud was out of order. But then Logos would run like a dream on almost any machine. Surely Logos is close to this capability, since internet connectivity is required for mobile search.
I think my number one frustration with the platform is the constant resource updating, which requires re-indexing, and slowness during the times I'm actually using my computer. Maybe there could be a silent download and re-index overnight so I don't need to worry about it all the time.
I did not mean to turn this into a negative rant. I love all the research I have at my fingertips. I appreciate my resources, and my only hope is that I can continue to use them with growing efficiency.
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William Gabriel said:
Just want to say thanks for the continued work on Logos. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I could tag multiple resources simultaneously.
Eh..? That's been there for as long as I've used Logos, i e over two years. Or did you mean 'hide multiple resources simultaneously'?
William Gabriel said:Maybe there could be a silent download and re-index overnight
You can set the downloading time in Program Settings. Or you can turn Automatic Updates off, and do it manually once a week or so, or when you're expecting something you want.
As for Google like search, see Why Can't We Search Like We Do On Google?
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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Hmmm, if that's the case, I've wasted a lot of time in the past. I've done most of my work on a Mac up to this point. Hopefully it was just a platform disparity and not my own blindness.
I did notice the "hide multiple resources" upgrade [too?], and that is the kind of feature for which I'm grateful.
And yeah, I've kept auto update on because I'm always excited to get new resources. It just ends up being a brutal couple of hours afterwards as my old mac indexes. New windows machine is fine since the index is on the secondary disk.
That old thread is exactly why I started thinking that we actually could get a quickly running / smooth Logos on even old desktops. To some degree Logos is already doing the work. Certainly not as well as Google at the moment, but if they really think the cloud is the place to be, I think they'll find it a worthwhile investment. I'm guessing using Amazon's cloud for all that computation would be prohibitively expensive, though maybe they could cache most results for fast and cheap results.
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William Gabriel said:
Hmmm, if that's the case, I've wasted a lot of time in the past. I've done most of my work on a Mac up to this point. Hopefully it was just a platform disparity and not my own blindness.
Sorry to disappoint you. I'm on Mac and it's been there for more than two years. You should have read the Wiki. [;)]
Multiple hide is new, though.
The fastest way to index is to do the download, click 'cancel' on the popup, and then restart the computer without any startup programs and leave it alone until it's finished (do not open Logos, the indexing starts anyway). Especially if you're short on RAM, that will make a huge difference.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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