What I have resembles a room with book shelves & ton of books in disorder on the shelves. Is there no way to move books around, put them in order & categories??? I have wasted considerable time trying to find a way to organize the library.
There are several approaches to this depending on your intended usage.
First, there are built-in categories that you can use to sort the library in different ways. By clicking on the header of a category (title, subjects, tags, last updated) your library is reorganized accordingly.
Of these, tags constitute criteria you can set yourself. As you put your own tags on your resources, using the corresponding header to sort out your library will correspond to having your shelves the way you want them.
Another approach to organizing the library is to put your resources in collections. You can do that under the Tools menu, click on collection and then enter criteria to make up a selection rule. Collections can be searched apart from other books in the library.
In my view, knowing how to narrow your library and use instant collections allows one to find what they need quickly without having to do the hard work of adding tags and organizing collections for a whole library. For instance you can use type:bible AND lang:Greek and see what you have that corresponds to this right away (in the library pane) or to search only these (in the search pane).
Or did you have some other reason for wanting to organize your library?
What I have resembles a room with book shelves & ton of books in disorder on the shelves.
The book cover view is really "eye candy" and probably not that helpful for users with large libraries. (I think it is still fun to browse that way from time to time). More helpful, however, is to view the library in the regular view and to use filters with sort views to get what you want. For example: you can sort by edition:e to see all the Vyrso titles in your library. You can also use mytags or community tags to filter.
Theodore, Logos' main calling card is their library. But organizing it has been a continuing weakness on ALL their platforms. After 5 years, they still don't have a grouping column for collections in the library. They only support a single sort level for a touch environment. No drag/drop into shelves/folders/etc. Recent meaning who knows. I just finished failing to find a volume I read just months back, for another forumite.
I organize on tags (level 1), and then literally re-titling the volumes (level 2). In a modern computer system, a user renaming the books is truly bizarre.
Is there no way to move books around, put them in order & categories???
The first thing that came to my mind, is that you want your library to look similar to the layout of one of (that I know of) Logos' competitors. If I'm correct, one way to put them into categories is to open your library, scroll over and click the "Type" category. It will list them by type instead of title.
Francis' post above is an excellent response. I would encourage you to make use of collections and tags. It has made my library far more useful.
Here is a brief/basic video describing the library sorting options.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOt8bHysEQo&feature=youtu.be
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I opened up my Logos library at once in response to your post, but was disappointed to find no "type" heading on which to click.
It doesn't have to look like a competitor's library, but it certainly does need a good organization, especially since Logos has no many, many books/modules that it sells.
Right-click on a heading and you can choose what is selected
And now smoke is coming out my ears. I put a tag on a commentary as COMMENTARY: BOOK INDIVIDUAL. After that, the library would only open in a tiny window at the top left & the library window could not be dragged bigger. Bummer.
Try right-clicking on the Library icon and choose "open in a floating window"
Watch the video I posted.
After poking around, I got the type heading to come up as well as community tags. I think I right clicked over at left toppish, not sure now. At any rate, it appears that with such a vast number of books/modules for sale, Logos would make library organization easier. Why can't they make it like Accordance? I had to go to Logos to get works that Accordance just doesn't have, like a Spanish library, like the vast number of classical Greek works Logos has. But thus far the Logos library organization seems woefully inadequate. Imagine the time it would take me to tag all the books in my library with Logos.
Thanks. At first I got an error signal. But I was able to watch it direct from YouTube. About 1/2 way through I was encouraged to get the types heading displayed. I have yet to finish watching it. Thanks again
Imagine? Many of us have done it - I have a medium size library - about 14,000 with Perseus and Early American documents. Because you can add a tag to a group, use filters on the library such as subject:psalter, a select multiples, it is not as bad as it sounds. Not great, but doable.
I've not used Accordance so I don't know what you are requesting as an alternative.
