Is there a way to flag/mark books in my library as to be read? Then once that is done, can that marked list be accessed via the Android app?
Hi Michael
You can tag them (http://wiki.logos.com/Tagging) using a tag such as ToRead.
use that tag to filter the library on your Android device.
Graham
Note that the linked article was written for Logos 4 and some of the details have changed in Logos 5 but hopefully it should point the in the right direction. if not, please post back
Graham,
Thank you for the quick response, I added a "to be read" tag to a few books in my library, refreshed them, but I don't see any way to filter that in the library on my android. Could you point my one step farther down the path on the android app? Thank you.
Mike
Hi Mike
Open the Library panel on your Android device.
At the top you should see a text box which acts as a filter
Type the string "mytag:to be read" into that text box and see what happens.
I'm not actually sure if it works with tags including spaces. If not, I suggest you try a tag without.
Perfect thanks a million! The key was I was missing the "mytag:" prefix and it does work with the spaces.
Thank you very much.
Just out of curiosity, are there other interesting prefixes like that, maybe a list some place?
Apologies for not mentioning it in the first place. I actually thought it should work without the "mytag" - it does on iOS and I'll flag it for the Android team to look at.
I don't know of a list - although I think one of the developers may have posted on.
By quickly scanning through the app (entering single characters into the filter field and seeing what pops up) it looks as though there are:
It is similar (but not identical) to the list for filtering the Logos 5 library. See text under the heading "Search Fields that you can use in the Find box" at http://wiki.logos.com/Library__
Note that if a tag has spaces in it, it should be enclosed in quotation marks after mytag:. Otherwise what you're asking Logos to show you is books that have "to" in the tag field and "be" and "read" in any field of the metadata. And since Logos matches prefixes as well, you might get unexpected results. The partial string "to" would match Tozer or Topical, for example. So if hypothetically you had tagged all your books by Tozer with "Tozer" (for some odd reason) and he'd written a book called "Reading the Bible in Bed" it would show up under such a filter. It's probably quite by accident that this worked for you this time, since you don't likely have any other books that match that criterion exactly. But get in the proper habit, as it might bite you somewhere down the road.
The correct syntax for this filter would be mytag:"to be read"
