New Feature in Logos 5: Popular Highlights

We are introducing a new feature to Logos 5 that allows you to see text that has been highlighted by many users. Once this feature is deployed, popular phrases in non-Bibles will be shown with a light, dashed underline.

Popular Highlights is a Visual Filter, so you can toggle it in the Visual Filters menu of each resource. The filter will only appear in the list of filters if Popular Highlights are available for that resource. If you want to disable popular highlights for all resources, you can right-click on the Popular Highlights Visual Filter and select “Do not show in any resources.”

If you are already running Logos 5.0a, you don’t need to do anything in order to start using this feature. However, Popular Highlights will not show up for resources that you have already opened during the current session. To see highlights for these resources, restart the application.

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Al Sosa

Hi Ben

I don't have L5 yet, but I will have it in a few days.

But I do have a question. How about having a display of all the highlights I've made in my books. For example, If I have accessed 100 books and I have highlighted at least 100 lines in every book, and I wanted to search all my highlights, well that would be 10,000 highlights. Is there a way to search all my highlights without having to open up the books or any favorites or any layouts? Having to open these slows down the research. Why not have a database of all highlights? And even the different colors be separated? Anything like this in the future for user?

Thanks.

Al Sosa

David Mitchell

I believe you can accomplish that with our existing search functionality. Check out http://blog.logos.com/2011/12/logos-4-search-highlighting-styles/ for details.

Al Sosa

Hi Dave,

I went to the site and followed the instructions, but somehow I do not see the display in my computer as the instruction says. For example, I do not see the "highlighting palette such as Highlighter Pens" anywhere in my display. I'm sorry but it does not work as stated in the instruction. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Either way, I did try the search and it did not work. I did open the book and do have two hightlighting in yellow. This is what I see in my display:

    I type the name of the book as stated in the instructions
         I get the following display:
           After Clicking "All Text" I get the following display:
              "Search Field"
              "Solid Color"
              "Emphasis Markup" - I then clicked solid color and chose 'yellow'
I then hit Enter and got '0' zero entries. . . yet my book was open and it was highlighted in two places. Honestly,too many moving parts. . . :-)

However, in my question of the function, I want to be able to do this search without opening the book. I want to be able to see 'all' my highlightings in whatever color I choose in whatever books I have. Imagine having to open up 100 books just to seek highlighting references. I would like to see research results showing highlighting and the link of the book it is found so that I can just click on the highlight and open the book, if I want to. The steps in the instruction numbered in ten steps. I am thinking of only four steps!
1. Click open highlighting tab (assuming one such exists) No books need to be open.
2. Search by author. . . or by color. . . or by topic. . . or other criteria
3. Click research button. . .
4. Read results. . . Then if even print results so that I can have them for later use. Or even save such a search for future use. . .

Thank you. . .

Blessings. . .

Eis Cristos

Al Sosa

NetworkGeek

I am glad it can be turned off as well, but I kind of like the feature - for certain books I will be interested in what others are highlighting in it.

One question - how do my highlights get added to the community? Or do they all, automatically? Can I control this, whether they get added to the community aggregation or not?

Erwin Stull, Sr.

I was about to compose a post asking what is this grayed out highlights feature, but see it is explained very well here.

Thanks [:)]

Allen Browne

a new feature to Logos 5 that allows you to see text that has been highlighted by many users

Ah, thanks!

I like both the fact that it's available, and that we can turn it off (visual filter) if needed.

Well thought out feature.

DominicM

Ben given the userbase #, what is the threshold that triggers this appearing, as 17/300000 doent seem "Popular" to me

Thanks it will be interesting to observe

David Mitchell

"Popular" is relative to the number of highlights made in the book itself. It varies from resource to resource, although we do have an absolute minimum threshold in place.

David Bailey

If you want to disable popular highlights for all resources, you can right-click on the Popular Highlights Visual Filter and select “Do not show in any resources.”

Cool! I like the ability to turn this filter off for all resources. However, should not this system wide configuration change be placed in the Program Settings?

David

Josh Hunt

That is really cool. I love how kindle does this.

DominicM

so "community highlighting" might be a better name for it - ok thanks

Edwin Bowden

Once this feature is deployed, popular phrases in non-Bibles will be shown with a light, dashed underline.

This feature could be handy when browsing through a large amount of material.

Once Logos users are familiar with this feature, it would be nice if it could be a little less intrusive in the text.

Could the annotation [17 highlights] be reduced to a smaller font size? Sans serif?

Or with only the number and X?

[17X]

Martin Folley

If you want to disable popular highlights for all resources, you can right-click on the Popular Highlights Visual Filter and select “Do not show in any resources.”

This works for popular highlights ([Y]) ... can we now have the same facility for 'Show Footnotes on Page' so that they can call be turned off.

Thanks.

David Mitchell

Once Logos users are familiar with this feature, it would be nice if it could be a little less intrusive in the text.

Could the annotation [17 highlights] be reduced to a smaller font size? Sans serif?

Or with only the number and X?

I believe that there are plans for a more subtle style in a future version of the desktop app.

Graham Owen

Popular Highlights is a Visual Filter, so you can toggle it in the Visual Filters menu of each resource.

Can the default setting for this please be OFF.

David Mitchell

Popular Highlights is a Visual Filter, so you can toggle it in the Visual Filters menu of each resource.

Can the default setting for this please be OFF.

The default for a new user is for the visual filter to be enabled. However, if you turn it off for all resources—as described in the original post—that value will be your default for all devices. (if you discover that this is not the case, please report it as a bug)

Graham Owen

However, if you turn it off for all resources—as described in the original post—that value will be your default for all devices

Thank David and sorry that I did not read the original post properly.

Philip Larson

This is very promising! I was glad to see it last evening.

Tim Bray

Hi,

Another question re this popular highlighting feature:

Can we search (using the search function) 'popular highlights' the same as we can search by our own highlights?

i.e. Search > Basic > (instead of all text use search fields etc) > resource etc etc

Thanks

Tim

David Mitchell

Can we search (using the search function) 'popular highlights' the same as we can search by our own highlights?

Not at this time.

Doc B

The default for a new user is for the visual filter to be enabled. However, if you turn it off for all resources—as described in the original post—that value will be your default for all devices.

Here's a compromise solution that works for me.

I opened a resource that has popular highlights (PH) available...in this case I opened 50 Reasons Jesus Came to Die by J Piper.

I clicked on the PH toggle and then right-clicked the Popular Highlights item and chose 'Do not show in any resources'. This turns off the PH in everything where it is resident.

Then, I opened a different book where I want to see what people are highlighting (I chose A Holy Ambition by Piper). I clicked on the PH toggle and checked the PH box to show PH in this book. Doing this DID NOT turn PH back on for anything else.

So now, my resources won't show the PHs unless I choose to open/show them individually myself.

Dave Hooton

If you want to disable popular highlights for all resources, you can right-click on the Popular Highlights Visual Filter and select “Do not show in any resources.”

The problem with that method is:-

You have to find a resource with the VF
If the tick box is empty you cannot tell whether it has been turned off in ALL resources because the menu item is not ticked.

But I strongly feel there should be a Program setting to NOT receive Popular Highlights (or community ratings, community tags) which then turns OFF the relevant feature for displaying them.

Doc B

You have to find a resource with the VF
If the tick box is empty you cannot tell whether it has been turned off in ALL resources because the menu item is not ticked.

Dave,

Did you see my post just up the way? It names a resource that has the PH visual filter (Piper's Fifty Ways). If you have that one, just open it and choose 'Do not show' and you're done with it.

If you don't have that resource, just pick a currently popular pleasure-reading type book, and you are likely to find it.

Mark Barnes

You have to find a resource with the VF

If you can't find a resource with the VF, then whether it's on or off isn't going to make any difference at all!

Dave Hooton

You have to find a resource with the VF

If you can't find a resource with the VF, then whether it's on or off isn't going to make any difference at all!

I'm sure if you really thought about that you wouldn't have said it, since it puts aside what I was really saying.

Dave Hooton

Did you see my post just up the way? It names a resource that has the PH visual filter (Piper's Fifty Ways).

You also missed the point because I did find a resource.

Bruce Dunning

How many user highlights have to be submitted before popular highlights is applied?

Pastor Michael Huffman

"Popular" is relative to the number of highlights made in the book itself. It varies from resource to resource, although we do have an absolute minimum threshold in place.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong....I am running Logos 5.0a SR and I do not see this option.

Graham Criddle

"Popular" is relative to the number of highlights made in the book itself. It varies from resource to resource, although we do have an absolute minimum threshold in place.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong....I am running Logos 5.0a SR and I do not see this option.

It is not currently available in Bibles - do you see it in non-Bible resources?

James Hudson

When I hover over the ? icon for "Send Feedback" it CLEARLY states

"None: Logos 5 will not gather any information"

I kinda take that at face value - "ANY information" is "ANY information" - that to me includes information about what I highlight.

Have I misunderstood?

Pastor Michael Huffman

Hey fellews:

I am trying to get an answer...I do not see the popular hightlighting in any of my resources. Running Logos 5.0a SR-1

Graham Owen

I am trying to get an answer...I do not see the popular hightlighting in any of my resources. Running Logos 5.0a SR-1

Try looking in Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came To Die by John Piper - this is the one that I used to disable this.

Ronald Quick

Pick a well known book like Morning and Evening by Spurgeon. The
popular highlighting is in light grey. Also make sure you have the
"popular highlighting" box checked under visual filters.

Eric Fary

Thanks this was really annoying!