Question for Faithlife employee re: NT221

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,404
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

I just watched the video on note taking (Segment 3). I have rarely used favorites, instead relying on note files. But I decided to try the Favorites methods for a portion of my notes where it has a distinct advantage. Having converted 7 notes to Favorites I realized I might be making a big mistake. On a clipping file, if my cat deletes something it is no problem - there is the undelete documents feature. However, Favorites does not create a document. So what is the undo delete function? If there is none, why do you promote favorites as a means of note taking? In short, what am I missing that makes Favorites preferred or even acceptable? If it has a reasonable recovery path that I'm missing I can make strong arguments for it being part of a note taking process.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    This is my personal Faithlife account. On 1 March 2022, I started working for Faithlife, and have a new 'official' user account. Posts on this account shouldn't be taken as official Faithlife views!

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,404

    Yes, so why is Faithlife in mobile education recommending them for "note taking"?

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • John Pierceson
    John Pierceson Member, Logos Employee Posts: 72

    M.J., 

    Thanks for the questions. The main benefits of Favorites are organization and ease of access. While I don't have a solution for the difficulty of recovering deleted favorites, the screencast highlights your ability to organize notes, clippings, and bookmarks into folders/subfolders. This organization allows for quick and easy access to these notes, clippings, and bookmarks.

    I will send in a request to our development team about the recovery issue to which you and Mark referred.

    Thanks for asking these questions. It helps make both Mobile Ed and Logos Bible Software better.

    Grace and peace,

    jon

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,404

    Thanks Jon. If you were on the forums a lot (as Mark and I are) you'd know that loss of data can be a real problem for users as in the thread Mark referred to.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • David Achorn
    David Achorn Member Posts: 63 ✭✭

    Your cat can delete files?  So can mine.  Wonder how they know?