is there a way to share each other's "layouts"?

Mike,

I think that you should visit the forum links and wiki pages where people talk about the use of highlights, favorites, collections, and power tools. 

Make sure you pay attention to basic prioritization of your different types of resources.  It makes all the difference when performing searches.

I think my use of "favorites" is much more important to me than how I organize my layouts.  For instance, I take advantage of the fact that I can drag resources, bookmarks within resources (drag the tab of an open resource and the current place is remembered), search results, timelines, reading plans, layouts, notes files, and sub folders to my favorites.  The capability of favorites to hold all this stuff makes it central to my research and reading.

For instance, while preparing to teach a class on New Testament introduction, I ran a search on <Paul NEAR "new perspective">.  Since there was so much to read on the topic, I picked up the tab of the resulting search and dropped it into my favorites folder where I was keeping track of the class topics.  Individual hits from a search can also be dragged directly into a favorites folder.

"Favorites" is probably my favorite feature!

hi,

Schumitinu said:

Is there a way to have two layouts open at the same time on a Mac desktop?

See Floating Tool Windows  , you can have a floating window with whatever panels & tabs that you want. In the wiki that i've linked you can make as many specialized floating windows as you would like in Favorites.

EDIT: you may have to drag-n-drop in that window after it is opened, but that is really quick if you are using a mouse.

Edit2: another companion wiki page (Creating your own Custom Go Box) helps you set these floating tool windows to work with which ever Bible reference that you have active when you open a floating tool window.

Schumitinu said:

1. Is there a way to actually create favorite folders? Favorite groupings? Or did I understand you wrong. What do you do if you have too much links on the favorite bar and things get crowded?

I suspect you did not understand my original post.  The "Favorites" to which I refer is a panel in a window (apparently also called "tile").  This panel is opened from the Tools menu.  It is typical for it to be in a slender window on the left where the window is shared by a Highlighting panel.  Each has their own tab.

Once you open the Favorites panel you will see that there is a "New Folder" button.  Folders are how you would "group" favorite items.  I create a new folder whenever I start a new project.  I have folders for past classes I have taught.  Each of these has sub-folders with aggregated resources.  I also keep a folder for resources I want to read eventually as well as resources that I am currently reading or have completed.  (Some people prefer to use "tags" for this purpose.)

I can access my Favorites from my iPads or my Android tablets from within the Logos and Vyrso applications on each.

So it is not a "bar" and, thus, does not get "crowded".  It scrolls appropriately when I expand folders with lots of entries.

steve clark said:

See Floating Tool Windows 

Edit2: another companion wiki page (Creating your own Custom Go Box)

Thanks Steve! This is great! So far I've always worked with Layouts. But for some things this might actually work much better, especially the Custom Go Box.