Organize Your Books Tagging rules

John Kaess said:

Several times he says that it is not necessary to go through your library one book at a time to tag them, but it seems that is what is required if he does not give us rules to set up the tags.

Library can be filtered by key word(s), which includes search of resource description.  Tags can be applied to a selected group of resources.

John Kaess said:

Moe spends a significant amount of time stressing the necessity of tagging all your books.

Tagging all your books expands your knowledge of resources in your library.  Every tag is a collection.  Logos resources have Subject and Series metadata that can be used for collection rules.  Logos wiki => https://wiki.logos.com/Example_Collections has "Counsel & Psychology" with rule:

Mytag:Counsel OR Subject:(Counsel, Living, “Pastoral Care”, Psychology) OR Title:(Counsel, “Pastoral Care”, Psychology)

that combines tagged collection of Counsel resources with metadata matches.  Vryso has a number of Counseling resources that do not match the Title filter.  Vyrso resources do not have Series and Subject so tagging edition:eBook resources can be very useful.

Personally add tags with year and month of acquisition (if Free, then add Free tag).  Also add tags for morphology in resource: e.g. lbs for Logos Greek Morphology and he for Logos Hebrew Morphology.  Searching for Greek definite article is helpful for tagging:

For Bible Search with results in Grid (comparison of verses found), am using tag BibleGrid for desired subset of Bibles.  Collection "Bible Grid Favorites - English Bibles" has rule:

MyTag:BibleGrid Language:English Type:Bible

For resources with Interlinear display, am using two tags.

• InterlinearNT for Bibles that have Reverse Interlinear tagging in the New Testament
• Interlinear for Resources that have Interlinear tagging: e.g. KJV, ESV, "The Apostolic Fathers in English"

Related library management practice is using Rating.  When a resource is added to library, rating is 0 so can use filter

myrating:0

to show resources whose membership in collections and tagging needs review.  Dynamic Rule collections add resource immediately.  If a resource is not in desired collection(s), then have two options: modify collection(s) to include resource or add tag(s).

Thankful for Rosie's ratings => http://community.logos.com/forums/p/4363/157779.aspx#157779

Rosie Perera said:

0 stars - just purchased, haven't had time to do anything with it yet (though I usually do them right away so they don't stay in this state for very long)
1 star - I really don't think this resource is very valuable and would usually chose to ignore it, but I don't dislike it enough to hide it
2 stars - the rating I assign to everything as soon as I buy it, which means basically "I don't know yet what I think of this"
3 stars - good
4 stars - very good
5 stars - outstanding, one of my favorite resources

When have an opinion about a resource, then change rating appropriately.

Keep Smiling [:)]

John Kaess said:

Oops! I left out the link. Here it is:

https://mpseminars.com/alumni/

Thanks John.