How do you organize your files? Do you do one file with many sermons/illustrations? Do you do separate files for each? What do you find to be the best approach?
I have not done this with sermons, but I have started a large project adding blog entries from a website. My current .docx file is over 125 pages… and it represents 3/4 of a year's worth of blog posts. I have not decided if I am going to make more than one book, but I have decided that I am at the very least going to use more than one .docx file.
Smart question. If you change your mind later (slow performance, or crashes, or other inconvenience) it will take as long to transfer everything to a different approach as it did to build the first one. I had to revamp my notes files, and it took weeks of mind-numbing work.
I had to revamp my notes files, and it took weeks of mind-numbing work.
I had assumed the OP meant through the use of the personal book builder tool... but he didnt say so. Putting your sermons into note files, as Jack found out, isnt the greatest idea. Thanks for the warning Jack! [:S]
Logos does search notes, so there are two options. One is to put your sermons into notes & the other is to make PBs using the Personal Book Builder. I think the second option may be best. However, just so you know, when notes get very long, Logos tends to bog down when trying to process them. I use L3 for my notes, so L4/5 may have improved somewhat, but I think the consensus is that making smaller notes is best. I have noticed that 4-5 pages of info in a note is fine, but getting up to 10 or more pages long starts to slow down.
Also, at one point I had all my notes in a General Notes file. I decided to create six files for my Bible notes (I have others for things such as Typos, Books, Apocrypha, Josephus, etc.). I have three OT note files according to TaNaKh designation, and three NT files by Gospels, Apostles, and Paul. If I find any of these are getting too full and are becoming sluggish, I will just add another file (such as Gospels 2). Because all my notes are saved exactly where I want them to be used in my Bible, I don't really care what the name is...I never have to search my notes in that way.
I think for your purposes, though, PBs are the way to go.
Hi Andrew
How do you organize your files? Do you do one file with many sermons/illustrations? Do you do separate files for each? What do you find to be the best approach? Forgive me if this has been asked before. I want to sort out my approach before starting...
Personally I do use Personal Books to store my sermons - I have been doing this from September last year.
I tend to preach through series (themes / books / etc) and create a separate .docx file for each sermon and then compile all of the books in a series into a single Personal Book.
I use some of the PB fields - such as Series Title and Publication Date to provide some searchable reference information to identify the series.
I find this works for me.
Hope this helps
Graham
Hi Andrew How do you organize your files? Do you do one file with many sermons/illustrations? Do you do separate files for each? What do you find to be the best approach? Forgive me if this has been asked before. I want to sort out my approach before starting... Personally I do use Personal Books to store my sermons - I have been doing this from September last year. I tend to preach through series (themes / books / etc) and create a separate .docx file for each sermon and then compile all of the books in a series into a single Personal Book. I use some of the PB fields - such as Series Title and Publication Date to provide some searchable reference information to identify the series. I find this works for me. Hope this helps Graham
I use L3 for my notes, so L4/5 may have improved somewhat...
The improvements in Notes were what convinced me to upgrade to Logos4 and bite the bullet of reformatting them by their thousands. It was worth it. Now I have all my notes and fast response too.
