Initial Thoughts and Questions

After two hours of playing:

1. Resource intensive!  Even with Indexing postponed for 4 hours, the program runs slowly, comparable to Logos 3.  But I'm running on a netbook with 512MB.  Will try on a more powerful laptop once I get the DVD.

On the topic of Indexing, is it possible for Logos to pre-index each resource, and add that as part of the resource download process?  The indexing is so resource intensive that I doubt it will ever finish on a machine like mine.  Please think about all the missionaries in the field in developing countries who may not have the latest and greatest and richest hardware to run the latest software.

3. Nice, clean, intuitive interface (in most cases), as many have commented already.  Again, beautiful job!

4. Beyond the new UI, I was expecting some major technological breakthrough that I thought Bob was hinting at in the last two years.  Things like: really smart search, driven by semantic tagging, or some other way to draw out the richness of the LDLS library to the average user (I do not read the original languages).  So far I've only found Biblical Places and Things, which look like a specialized form of searching.  Can you provide a list or hints of what we should be discovering in terms of "wow" features?

As a non-OL user, the criterion I use to judge the success of this software (and any other Bible software) is: Does it help me discover more about God's word that the other software help me discover?

5. I initially thought the "Command" textbox was some super-intelligent natural-language gateway to the library as mentioned in #4 above.  So I tried typing in "audience of isaiah" expecting it to find something.  It looks like it's some glorified form of search?  Can you give us some guidance what the Command textbox does and how is it different than Search?

6. UI Comments:

a. Really like the ability to change text size on each individual window.

b. Love the Clippings feature.

c. In Read Aloud mode, love the fact that the cue follows the reading of each verse.

d. Love the full history.

e. In general, too many little arrows, little triangles all over the screen.

f. Why is there a little horizontal line on the vertical scrollbar?

g. Please make the vertical scrollbar more visible and more intuitive to use (e.g. dragging it will not abruptly jump me to an entirely different section of the Bible).

h. Looks like the right click menu on a word still needs more work.

7. How-To Questions:

a. After I float a tab, how do I unfloat (re-dock) it?

b. How do I set the Passage Guide to use a specific Commentary Collection?

c. How do I change the voice of the Read Aloud feature, and are there settings to that feature?  

8. Feature Questions:

a. The Bible Explorer seems to be just a slimmed-down version of the Passage Guide. How how they different?

b. Can we assume that the missing features such as visual highlighting will be added back later?