A Big THANKS

I had not used the series creation function until recently, I had always used tags to keep collections together such as "Classic Commentaries and Studies on Matthew" and "Classic Studies on the Atonement."

I spent time this week putting all the tags for these series under just the series name and what a difference in the look of my library and the ease of use.

My not mean much to some but cleanliness is next to, well you know you had a mom as well

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Bruce Dunning

Interesting idea. It does look clean (and thus close to godliness [;)]) My question is how do you find this practically speaking? For instance when would you want to search all of the classic commentaries vs. search for a particular book? Just curious.

Whyndell Grizzard

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563493#Comment_563493

I did this more for organization, than anything- but since we purchased these as a particular collection, I like to keep it in the library that way.

I do look at these books individually, so it is nice to work through them, making notes on particular passages. I was naming the notes after the collection/ mytag (since I created a collection using the tag), but now I have deleted the collections, and in process of renaming the notes after the series.

As these series are upgraded through Logos I will just add them to the series, adding the new volumes to my note database.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563508#Comment_563508

Thanks for letting me know. That makes sense. Although it is interesting to know I don't sense the need to sort by "Classic Commentaries" but rather I just tag each resource by the Bible book and search that way.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

It's not bad to organise your library this way, but you're not taking advantage of how Logos uses Series by doing so.

The original purpose of Series was to group a multi-volume commentary series together, where each volume covers different Bible passages. For example, "Word Biblical Commentary" is a series; if you have WBC Genesis open, and you enter "John 1:1" in the navigation box, Logos will check the other resources in that series to find the one with commentary on that verse and switch to it automatically. (This will also happen if you use panel linking.)

The other thing you're missing out on (by using Series) is showing other classic commentaries in the parallel resources drop-down (in the resource panel); this is only activated by putting resources in a collection and checking the "Show in parallel resources" checkbox; resources in the same Series are not considered.

Whyndell Grizzard

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563575#Comment_563575

To be honest I don't understand your point:(

If I open WBC on Genesis, in parallel resources my classic commentaries are there?

I don't understand your reference to John 1.

Whyndell Grizzard

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563596#Comment_563596

Ok now I get your reference to John 1:1- so are you saying I should put the classic series under say:

"Classic Commentaries and Studies of the Old & New Testaments" ?

Whyndell Grizzard

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563601#Comment_563601

I use to be able to run 2 versions of Libronix at once- uses dual monitors, was great- to bad thats not possible with 5- I have more than enough horsepower to handle it

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563602#Comment_563602

I use to be able to run 2 versions of Libronix at once- uses dual monitors, was great- to bad thats not possible with 5

You can't run two copies of Logos 5 at once, but you can use multiple monitors easily: on the panel menu (book cover icon) choose "Open in floating window". A new window will open that you can drag to the other monitor. You can now drag as many panels as you want into that new window. If you save a layout, the windows and their positions will be remembered.

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563601#Comment_563601

Ok now I get your reference to John 1:1- so are you saying I should put the classic series under say:

"Classic Commentaries and Studies of the Old & New Testaments" ?

You might consider creating a series of your favorite classic commentary for each Book of the Bible. Of course, you might also create additional series of additional authors.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/563721#Comment_563721

You might consider creating a series of your favorite classic commentary for each Book of the Bible.

I believe that's what the OP already did, and what I was not recommending.

Of course, you might also create additional series of additional authors.

This is what Series in Logos 5 were designed for; e.g., create a Series of commentaries by Calvin, another Series for Owen, etc. (Many sets of resources already come with good default values for this in the metadata, but you can customise it if necessary.) If you're in a commentary on one book of the Bible and want to see what that author said about a different passage (e.g., after following a cross-reference), Logos will automatically switch to the appropriate commentary in that series.

OTOH, if all the resources in a particular Series are about, say, Genesis, Logos 5 won't know how to switch to a different resource when looking up a reference in a different Bible book.

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/564357#Comment_564357

You might consider creating a series of your favorite classic commentary for each Book of the Bible.

I believe that's what the OP already did, and what I was not recommending.

Perhaps I did not make myself clear. What I meant was the favorite commentary for each book of the Bible, not several commentaries for a single book—that would not be a series.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/564360#Comment_564360

Perhaps I did not make myself clear. What I meant was the favorite commentary for each book of the Bible

I misread your post.

What you are suggesting is what I would recommend.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/564399#Comment_564399

Not quite on topic, but what I have started doing is creating a layout for each book of the Bible.

I also have a New Testament layout, and a corresponding Old Testament layout.

fgh

I spent time this week putting all the tags for these series under just the series name

Another problem with this approach is that you overwrite all the real series names. Sometimes Logos doesn't publish a commentary series as a commentary series, but there may be one volume in the Classic Commentaries on X, another in the Classic Commentaries on Y, and a third in Selected Works by Z. With time, one can end up with most of the series, but the way you do it, you won't know, and you won't be able to go directly from one volume of the series to another, because Logos no longer knows they're part of the same series.

It is better to use tags for random collections and bundles, and reserve series for real series, especially when it comes to commentaries.

Personally, I've also made a habit of always putting a * at the beginning of my own series names, so that I know they're not original.