What kind of layout do you use?
i'd be curious how you use layouts. I only use one. It is very simple. I tend to clutter things up over time and this just puts (almost) all the books back on the shelf. I'd like to learn from the group.
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Josh Hunt said:
i'd be curious how you use layouts. I only use one. It is very simple. I tend to clutter things up over time and this just puts (almost) all the books back on the shelf. I'd like to learn from the group.
So far, I rarely use a specific one, such as a Logos named Layout. But the screen often looks comparable. I use the two vertical striped windows, e.g. bible left, commentary right or guide left, opened resources right, or dictionary left, study bible right, or all of them....=> They tend to clutter with multiple tabs for me as well - which is why I have a Close All shortcut button. Typically, to the far left a reading list may be up and to the far right the Community Notes pane.
Luckily the 24" will carry this nicely. I tend to use it as a left-side extension of my 15.4'' which will have the libray in a floating window - for me it needs much screen width and to stay open. Behind it or in front on the 15.4'' may be Word, as I type with the notebook keyboard below. And Chrome will lurk either on one or both of these in the back with Faithlife, biblia.com and the Logos forum.
It seems, somehow I can work okay with some vertical stripes of different information, whereas I'm incompatible with window boxes stacked up.
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Something I picked up from other users--I believe it was a Mark Barnes video on layouts.
Upper left - Guides
Lower left - Secondary literature (e.g. commentaries)
Upper Center - Various English texts (all grouped linked together)
Lower Center - Original language tools
Upper Right - Information Window linked to upper center
Lower Right - English text not linked to Upper Center so I can pursue rabbit trails
I have a saved NT layout and a saved OT layout with appropriate resources for each language.
Here is my NT saved layout
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You got me to thinking, Josh, so i tried a different layout--four panels:
- Bibles
- Original text and lexicons
- Commentaries
- Notes
Thanks for the idea.
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David, do you mind telling me what logos is using for resources when you have your layout opened this way?
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Josh Hunt said:
i'd be curious how you use layouts. I only use one. It is very simple. I tend to clutter things up over time and this just puts (almost) all the books back on the shelf. I'd like to learn from the group.
Josh, I have so many layouts for different purposes I can't even start to name them all. But to put it in a simple way I have an Old Testament prep layout for sermon prep on about half of the books in the Old Testament and the same thing with the New Testament. Then I have a few layouts on different reading plans I have set up. Then I have layouts for language study. I delete layouts when I am done with them except for the sermon preps and language study. I typically have about 40 named layouts at any given time.
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Bootjack said:
David, do you mind telling me what logos is using for resources when you have your layout opened this way?
Jack you can click on the picture and expand to see what resources he has in the layout.
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I have used a three column layout for quite some time and have a youtube video discussing it (circa 2009) here.
Bible text in the middle (top favorite translation) bottom NA27, Lexham Discourse, Lexham Syntactic texts, text comparison for both English and Greek.
Right is where I leave open a few lexicons, BDAG. LN and Lexham Analytical. This is also where L4 almost always opens commentaries and other resources selected from the reports.
Left is the reports, Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide, Cited by and information window. Other reports such as bible word study and passage lists will open here as well. Here is a screen shot with the info window in use. Note it is tied to the Lexham Analytical due to the valuable information I can get to quickly.
Lastly I have a similar set up for the OT.
Hope this helps.
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