Can You Combine Highlighter Note Documents?

Some how I ended up with two or three highlighter note documents and between different devices it gets confused. I would love to set a main highlight document and combine the others into that one main document? Is this possible? I was looking for perhaps a way to even just select the highlights from one document and "move" them to the main document. Any suggestions? Thanks. Scott

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JT (alabama24)

To answer your question, yes. Simply drag a note from one file into the other and repeat. Unfortunately, there is no automated process. You must do this one note at a time.

with that said, it is not a good thing to use a single note document. Large nothe documents are troublesome. You would be best suited to have one note document per resource, or per theme. If you highlight often, you should really figure out how to make note documents smaller, not larger.

Graham Criddle

Hi Scott

I was looking for perhaps a way to even just select the highlights from one document and "move" them to the main document. Any suggestions?

It can be done but you need to move the highlights on at a time.

I have just created a short video to demonstrate it - available at http://screencast.com/t/1UcSqMMA

Graham

Scott Fillmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753058#Comment_753058

Thanks for the info about the large note files... I haven't found a great way to organize them into different documents that makes sense. For years I've only used one, the "highlighter pens" doc, but when I renamed it a few weeks ago Logos6 started a new one titled highlighter pens and went on from there.

The iOS apps have an easy way to specify a highlighter doc to use, but I can't figure out how to tell the mac version what to use, and with almost 5,000 highlights in that main doc, I'm not sure how I would effectively organize them at this point. Any way to choose a default highlighter doc in the mac ver?

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753067#Comment_753067

I haven't found a great way to organize them into different documents that makes sense.

I organize my highlighter notes into "resource specific" note documents so that all my highlights in "The Purpose Driven Life" are in a note document titled... wait for it.... "The Purpose Driven Life." Logos actually recently added this as an option for automatic behavior.

but I can't figure out how to tell the mac version what to use, and with almost 5,000 highlights in that main doc, I'm not sure how I would effectively organize them at this point. Any way to choose a default highlighter doc in the mac ver?

I think it is absolutely ridiculous that FL does it this way, but oh well. The mobile app has a master switch to control behavior. The desktop app the behavior is controlled at the pallet level.

For years I've only used one, the "highlighter pens" doc, but when I renamed it a few weeks ago Logos6 started a new one titled highlighter pens and went on from there.

Which is because you are using the default behavior. You need to hover on the right hand side of the pallet name and right click for the drop down menu. The ability to change the behavior will be in that menu. I have used "most recent note document" since that came out (late L4?).

with almost 5,000 highlights in that main doc, I'm not sure how I would effectively organize them at this point.

Large note documents can cause sync and other problems, but there isn't a good method for you to change things now. When "highlights as notes" was first implemented (L4.5?), I discovered the "large note document" problem when the iOS app kept crashing. They have improved things, but large note documents still cause problems. I manually moved highlights into "resource specific" note documents one at a time for a week while watching TV. That is the only "good" way.

Scott Fillmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753072#Comment_753072

Which is because you are using the default behavior. You need to hover on the right hand side of the pallet name and right click for the drop down menu. The ability to change the behavior will be in that menu. I have used "most recent note document" since that came out (late L4?).

So, by using the "most recent document" if you have multiple resources open at the same time, i.e. a bible and a commentary, and you highlight out of both, it would dump the highlight into the same note file, even with "most recent note document" chosen? Unless you save every single pallet as a new pallet with source specific, like "ESV Solid Colors" and then assign it to the "ESV Highlighter Notes" file, wouldn't you just be creating the same giant file?

I'm sure I'm making this too complicated. And I tried to "move" from one doc to the other and that is so slow it's not really feasible when you have hundreds in one doc.

At the moment all my pallets are choosing "pallet specific note document" (thanks for actually letting me know where you can change that, never would have found it by chance). Thanks for the help. S

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753101#Comment_753101

At the moment all my pallets are choosing "pallet specific note document" (thanks for actually letting me know where you can change that, never would have found it by chance).

One of the improvements in Logos 6.4 was the ability to use "resource-specific" notes files

From the release notes:

Highlighting

Added the option to save Highlights in Resource-specific notes files. This allows you to view all highlights on a particular resource in one Note, regardless of style used.

This can be enabled individually for any palette from the options menu on the right side of the palette header, under “Save in:”.
To save highlights using the old method, select “Palette-specific notes file”.

This could be a good option for highlights you create moving forwards. You can set the same setting (globally) on the iPad

Scott Fillmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753103#Comment_753103

From the release notes:

Highlighting

Added the option to save Highlights in Resource-specific notes files. This allows you to view all highlights on a particular resource in one Note, regardless of style used.

This can be enabled individually for any palette from the options menu on the right side of the palette header, under “Save in:”.

To save highlights using the old method, select “Palette-specific notes file”.

This could be a good option for highlights you create moving forwards. You can set the same setting (globally) on the iPad

Thanks!

Scott Fillmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753105#Comment_753105

One last quick question.... I love the "shortcut keys" on the highlighters, but being limited to only letters and numbers is, well, very limiting. It would be great if we could use "u" for "underline" and "shift_u" for "underline red" or something like that.

Is this not an option or am I just missing it where you can add extra shortcuts? Thanks again, Scott

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753112#Comment_753112

The shortcut keys in the Highlight menu are the only ones that are available.

Sorry

Scott Fillmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753113#Comment_753113

So I've moved all my highlight documents to being "resource specific" which has worked great, but I now have 5-6 "other" documents which is what I used previously. I've renamed them all so I know exactly which ones they are, question is this:

Can I "turn off" those documents independently? I want to be able to view my resources with only the "resource specific" highlighted documents. I don't want to delete the others because I would like to be able to see previously highlighted material, but only when I choose to see it? Is this possible?

Levi Durfey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753438#Comment_753438

First click the visual filters menu (3 dots) for a resource the highlights show up in.

Find the document in the menu and click the arrow on the right.

Select "Do not show in any resource"

When you want it to show up again, click the box on the left.

Scott Fillmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753449#Comment_753449

First click the visual filters menu (3 dots) for a resource the highlights show up in.

Thanks so much! Was a lot easier than I was making it out to be. S

Russ White

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/753058#Comment_753058

It's not only annoying that this is the only way to move notes, it's also annoying that the ipad app apparently resets the notes file to "palette specific note files" each and every time it's updated. So I have to remember to check this setting EVERY time I use the ipad app to make certain it's not putting the notes in the wrong place.

Just had to waste an hour or two moving notes around because I didn't realize it resets to default for every update, and I ended up with thousands of notes in a single file that had to be organized. Manually.

Thanks, Faithlife -- that's an hour of my life I'd really like to have back about now.

Russ

Levi Durfey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/813161#Comment_813161

the ipad app apparently resets the notes file to "palette specific note files" each and every time it's updated

It doesn't reset for me—it stays on "Resource-Specific Highlighting."

I suggest that you create a new post in the iPhone/iPad forum detailing your issue. See here for bug-reporting tips for iOS: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/118697.aspx

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/813161#Comment_813161

it's also annoying that the ipad app apparently resets the notes file to "palette specific note files" each and every time it's updated

It certainly does this when there is a fresh install. I have also seen this once with an update... but only once. At least that I know of. [:s] Are you beta testing? I would expect this sort of behavior more often in beta... If you continue to experience this, please do create a new thread. We would need to get to the bottom of the matter! [:s]