Updated Feature: Notes
What is it?
The updated notes feature now offers spellchecking, allows you to attach a single note to multiple references across the Bible, add tags to notes, and also allows you to add a note to data like Greek lemmas.
How does it work?
- Spell checking can be turned on via Program Settings, by toggling “Check Spelling While Typing” to Yes.
- The language can be changed for your current selection via the Globe icon in the Rich Text toolbar.
- Right-clicking a misspelled word will suggest correct spellings, or you can add the selected word to the current language’s dictionary.
Added Quotes view for Notes, which shows the resource content of long highlights, grouped by resource.
Notes now support multiple attachment points:
- Attachment points can be added by clicking the arrow next to the Note, and selecting “Edit attachment points”
- This method allows you to select points by entering a reference, or by selecting text and clicking “Attach to current selection”
- Notes can be attached to lemmas, people, etc.
Tags can be added to a note by clicking the arrow next to the note and selecting "Add tag".
How do I get it?
Notes is available in all Crossgrades and all Base Package levels.
Comments
- Attachment points can be added by clicking the arrow next to the Note, and selecting “Edit attachment points”
- This method allows you to select points by entering a reference, or by selecting text and clicking “Attach to current selection”
Notes now support multiple attachment points:
Since I can't study the packages or explore the software, let me ask about this instead (which I am very happy about, btw).
The probably most common reason for me to want a note attached to several Bible verses is when there are Synoptic or other parallels. An intelligent comment on Matthew does me no good if I'm reading the same pericope in Mark or Luke. Thus:
• Where I have already made separate but identical notes for each parallel, what will be the easiest way to transform them into one multi-attached note?
• For the future, may I suggest you include an option that automatically suggests parallels and lets us check the ones we want to attach the note to.
• An option that automatically attaches the note to all verses mentioned in the note would also be very useful, as would an option that attaches it to all verses in a particular Passage List.
• Can this be used to change a Selection note to a Reference note?
Notes can be attached to lemmas, people, etc.
• Here I would like the option to automatically attach it to a particular lemma or person in all verses found in a PL or a Search.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
Where I have already made separate but identical notes for each parallel, what will be the easiest way to transform them into one multi-attached note
Sorry, you'll have to open each one, merge them into one, and then edit the attachment points. The last part of which is incredibly simple. They did a good job on this. The hard part is de-duplicating your notes.
Can this be used to change a Selection note to a Reference note?
Yes you can right click on a highlight, select "Open annotations", then add an attachment point, insert a note indicator in the process and you're golden.
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• Where I have already made separate but identical notes for each parallel, what will be the easiest way to transform them into one multi-attached note?
Delete all but one, then attach it to all the multiple points.
In the following example, I have one note I want to attach to "in the beginning" in Ge 1:1 and Jn 1:1. Let's say I had a doppelganger at Jn 1:1 that first deleted. Now, on the remaining Ge 1:1, I use the "Edit attachment points" command in the pull-down menu that appears in the upper-right corner of a note on hover.
Then, since I want to attach this note to another selection, I navigate to Jn 1:1, make that selection and choose "Attach to current selection."
If you're attaching to several selections, you can leave the note in 'edit attachments' mode and attach as many selections/references as you need, then hit "Done."
• Can this be used to change a Selection note to a Reference note?
Yes, or both..
• Where I have already made separate but identical notes for each parallel, what will be the easiest way to transform them into one multi-attached note?
• For the future, may I suggest you include an option that automatically suggests parallels and lets us check the ones we want to attach the note to.
• An option that automatically attaches the note to all verses mentioned in the note would also be very useful, as would an option that attaches it to all verses in a particular Passage List
• Here I would like the option to automatically attach it to a particular lemma or person in all verses found in a PL or a Search.
Good suggestions, all. I've logged them for future consideration.
Thanks. And I'm happy for those people who come to the forums wondering why their hundreds of notes don't show up in all Bibles. At least now we'll have something slightly better to tell them than "You'll have to remake all of them".
On that note (pun intended): please tell me that you've finally made click>shift-click and click>Cmd-click work in note files, so that one can move or change multiple notes at once?
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The language can be changed for your current selection via the Globe icon in the Rich Text toolbar.
I don't care so much about the spell-check, but does this mean that I can use English Bible abbreviations in English notes, and Swedish Bible abbreviations in Swedish notes, and get auto-links for both, even if they are in the same note file?
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
I don't care so much about the spell-check, but does this mean that I can use English Bible abbreviations in English notes, and Swedish Bible abbreviations in Swedish notes, and get auto-links for both, even if they are in the same note file?
That's a great suggestion. But no, that is not currently possible.
On that note (pun intended): please tell me that you've finally made click>shift-click and click>Cmd-click work in note files, so that one can move or change multiple notes at once?
I wish. We imagined some bulk-editing designs that would have required a more extensive reworking than we were able to bite off and chew this time around.
For the future, may I suggest you include an option that automatically suggests parallels and lets us check the ones we want to attach the note to
awesome idea!
Can we also add underline feature into the Notes?
Ctrl-u
Don't know why there's no button.
Can someone explain to me how a file should appear if one attaches it to a Greek or Hebrew lemma in multiple places? I like to attach good definitions of a particular word as a note file (The Zondervan Complete Word Study Dictionary is my favorite) so when I'm going through my text, I can see that I've already looked up the definition for that particular word and just hover over my note to read it. (This is also very handy when using Logos on an iPad)
Along comes L7 with the ability to attach a note to a Greek lemma. "Sweet," I think, "now I can attach a definition at one lemma and have it show up in every place that particular lemma is used!" So I have done that, but then after attaching a note to a lemma, when I search for that lemma and find it in the text (using the ESV), there is no indication that anything is attached to it.
So my question is, "what should the text look like when I attach a note to a Greek lemma in multiple places?" Shouldn't there be a note indication at each lemma?
Thanks for any help/direction...
John
So my question is, "what should the text look like when I attach a note to a Greek lemma in multiple places?" Shouldn't there be a note indication at each lemma?
The note attachment will not show wherever the lemma is used as for instance, in original language resources (Hebrew/Aramaic OT, Greek NT, DSS, etc). It will show in resources that reference that lemma (mostly lexical resources) at the place where the entry starts (e.g., if you place one on logos you should see the attachment in Greek lexica under the corresponding entry).
Ah...I see. Thanks for the clarification. I appreciate it.
John
Thanks for the spell check!! Been waiting for this.
Call me crazy, but this might actually be the best new feature in L6! I have wanted spell check for years!
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I agree that this is very useful.
Also check out the ability to attach notes to multiple verses (via multiple attachments).
For years, I have found myself replicating notes wholesale (where a comment applies to a number of verses). With this feature, we can attach a single note to multiple places.
And the spelling is bang on. [:D]
How does Highlighting work? Does it still do the crazy attach to palette note thing or choose another note per palette?
I find that so annoying. I want to highlight and not be tied down to a note or have to think about it.