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

I'm interested in looking how people manage their windows while studying different things..

I know I have different ones, 3 for school, 3 for sermon, 2 for daily devotional, 1 for word-study, etc.

Now, I've seen some people share their screen shots for various purposes.. and I wonder why they manage their windows like that. And sometimes I see the great benefit and learn from them, and sometimes I wonder why they manage their windows weird like that. Smile

care to share?

ps: I'm no expert.

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James C.

There isn't any way of sharing layouts other than mentioning how you place each window. In L3 there was a way to share you workspace but that capability has been done away with starting in L4.

I simply use two windows most of the time. Bile on the right and a commentary window on the left. I simply right arrow key through my preferred commentaries and bibles.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/614957#Comment_614957

Not yet - but it is on my wish list of things necessary to make Logos-based parish Bible studies work well.

David A Egolf

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615031#Comment_615031

Not yet - but it is on my wish list of things necessary to make Logos-based parish Bible studies work well.

Sorry, MJ, but sharing your layouts would be a real downer for me. There would be far too many missing resources in my library! [:(]

David A Egolf

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!

Schumitinu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615094#Comment_615094

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!

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

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615206#Comment_615206

hi,

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.

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615206#Comment_615206

Is there a way to actually create favorite folders?

See this wiki page How do I create Folders?

David A Egolf

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615206#Comment_615206

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.

David A Egolf

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615325#Comment_615325

Here is a snapshot of my current "Favorites" panel with none of the folders expanded.

Schumitinu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615217#Comment_615217

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.

Schumitinu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/615325#Comment_615325

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.

Yes, you are right. I just knew the shortcut bar which is sometimes referred to as favorites by Morris Proctor. So that's what I default to when I hear favorites. Somehow I haven't noticed the favorite tool yet. There is still a lot to learn!