SUGGESTION: Tool to assist in the usefulness of older references TAGGING SUBSTITUTE ASSISTANT
See https://community.logos.com/forums/p/120493/788502.aspx#788502
The problem is that older resources do not have hyperlinks to new resources. When the link is to an independent book or a journal will volume and issue given, this is no big deal. However, when a reference is to a book hidden in "The Works of" or an anthology, it can be a nuisance to find a source. It would be nice if the works with datatypes were accessible by author-title and/or title. When we find the right title we could then click and open [our choice or highest priority] resource that contains the work.
If you wanted to snazz it up a bit you could make the tool recognize common abbreviations for a work so that one could highlight reference-activate tool - see possible links in a simple flow.
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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[Y] I am afraid I don't fully understand what you wrote, but I support it anyway
Gold package, and original language material and ancient text material, SIL and UBS books, discourse Hebrew OT and Greek NT. PC with Windows 11
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Thanks for letting me know I wasn't clear. The problem is that if a resource link is not to book with it's own title, it isn't simple to open the resource to read the link.
For resources having a datatype (a technical Logos term) one can use that datatype to find the resource that contains the link.
I'm suggesting a tool that lets us enter an author and title and returns to us the resources that contain it and allows us to open one of them. So if I have five different books that contain the 1st Epistle of Clement, I can find it immediately rather than running a search to find it somewhere in my early church fathers collection.
Ideally if I have something selected, it would be able to determine author and title. But even if it didn't and I had to enter author and title it would still be no more typing than a Search ... and I hope fewer click to get to it.
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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Ok, I think I understand it.
I've been suggesting something similar before, calling it "intelligent links", that could also link to the newer version/edition of the resource (either automatically or user assisted), when the old one is not in the library, like BAGD/BDAG. I would think that this could add some competitive edge to the FL products if properly implemented.
Gold package, and original language material and ancient text material, SIL and UBS books, discourse Hebrew OT and Greek NT. PC with Windows 11
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MJ. Smith said:
I'm suggesting a tool that lets us enter an author and title and returns to us the resources that contain it and allows us to open one of them. So if I have five different books that contain the 1st Epistle of Clement, I can find it immediately rather than running a search to find it somewhere in my early church fathers collection.
I think a sort of "Fuzzy Power Lookup" is a superb idea. The idea being that we could type in a reference, and if that reference roughly matched a datatype, then Logos would display possible datatypes and their associated resources. Ideally, it could be invoked from the context menu, too. That would be a brilliant way to try and look up references that haven't been linked, and also a great way to find documents when you're not sure where they are in your library.
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Mark Barnes said:
I think a sort of "Fuzzy Power Lookup" is a superb idea. The idea being that we could type in a reference, and if that reference roughly matched a datatype, then Logos would display possible datatypes and their associated resources. Ideally, it could be invoked from the context menu, too. That would be a brilliant way to try and look up references that haven't been linked, and also a great way to find documents when you're not sure where they are in your library.
That would work well as an implementation.
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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MJ. Smith said:Mark Barnes said:
I think a sort of "Fuzzy Power Lookup" is a superb idea. The idea being that we could type in a reference, and if that reference roughly matched a datatype, then Logos would display possible datatypes and their associated resources. Ideally, it could be invoked from the context menu, too. That would be a brilliant way to try and look up references that haven't been linked, and also a great way to find documents when you're not sure where they are in your library.
That would work well as an implementation.
That would be a great new feature.
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