How Do I.....

We've been asking for this type of feature for years -- not just for maintaining separation between different sets of notes, but also for privacy. There are some notes I'd prefer not to be stored on a cloud server. Logos has consistently answered that it would cost them more in tech support costs (because their users will complain about notes not being synchronized through calls to tech support because they've not configured it correctly), than the gains to the users from such a feature.

IMHO, all the data in Logos should be able to be selectively synchronized -- prayer list, notes, everything. If personal books can be selectively synchronized, then everything else can be, too.

[quote]At the moment, its not that personal books can be selectively synchronised (and I haven't seen anything to suggest this will be the case) but that they can't be syncronised at all (with the exception of metadata synching between two Logos 4 / 5 environments)

Ugh. I don't know if you misread my post, or if you just don't understand my point.

The point is that Logos knows how to selectively synchronize things from their end. There's no reason they can't also selectively synchronize notes as well as personal books.

[quote]As far as I can see if something is "syncable" and the relevant application and back-end infrastructure supports it then - if Internet access is enabled - everything is synced. I don't see anywhere where Logos are doing selective synchronisation.

How does the software select what to synchronize or not today? By examining some marker on the file... So selectively synchronizing notes should be a matter of allowing multiple note files, and then using the same marker on some note files, and not on others. This could easily be extended to the ability to synchronize specific sets of files on specific devices. Note this is no different than not only note files, but also locally downloading specific resources onto a mobile device of any type.

The capability is already there --and there are now two sets of justifications. The first is the ability to keep some sets of notes off the server, the second is to be able to synchronize sets of notes onto specific devices, rather than all the notes in my library.

The third thing needed here is for Logos to decide to do this --so far, the primary point I've heard against it is, "it would cause confusion among our users, who might get upset when some things synchronize and others don't, and hence cause tech support calls." This line of reasoning I don't buy, honestly --Logos is a complex piece of software (I'm often told it's too complex, in fact), I don't think the ability to synchronize something things and not others is going to confuse many people who aren't confused by all the other stuff involved in using this software for more than a few seconds or minutes.

[quote]We don't know whether it does so for resources (e.g. to differentiate putting resources onto various platforms)

Well, we know they must be for specific resources... Because it doesn't pull personal books, nor are all resources available on all platforms. It's a little unreasonable to think this is based on a "master list," maintained on a daily basis --but even if it were, it's simple enough to extend this to the rest of the information they're sync'ing.

But let's back up a little --I actually don't care how Logos implements this stuff. All I know is:

1. They are, in fact, implementing selective synchronization today, because they synchronize some resources and not others on a per platform basis.

2. There are at least two use cases for selectively synchronizing notes in the same way resources are currently synchronized.

It seems, to me, that this is enough to say --the feature is possible and desirable.