7.8 RC 1 (7.8.0.0024) is Now Available

Mike Pettit said:

The "Brand new cross-platform Notes tool that will replace our existing document-centric model" is really exiting, the document centric model is unstandable from a technical perspective but it is incredibly user unfriendly and opaque.

The new model should really enhance the user experience, even if some people insist on using it to write novels in.

Have you seen the kind of notes that Turabian style allows in academic works?  [;)]

Fr Devin Roza said:

1. A GUI for advanced search commands, of course! Here's how I imagine it... Something like a dropdown that allows you to choose from a list could be a simple and effective solution. Imagine a Magic Wand on the search panel, you click it, and a drop down appears, with fly out menus. The dropdown could be similar to the current left-hand panel of the Bible Browser, but adapted for the search panel (e.g. it would include search operators as well). The flyouts could allow you to type to filter in order to, for example, select the flyout for persons, then filter to find Peter. Once "Peter" was selected, the GUI would then simply insert the text <Person Peter> into the search panel wherever your cursor happened to be. Should be a simple solution that would solve the two most important difficulties in search right now: discovery of what exists, and creation of the search string.

YES, YES, YES. Several years ago there was a discussion about this. As DataSets and search functions have been added, some strings have gotten very complex. I often find myself going back to documentation because I cannot remember the correct syntax. Even then, it is often difficult to construct a search string that Logos will accept.

Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:

Anything else you'd like to see us prioritize?

Letting us see where in our resources we have not yet read and to jump easily to them (e.g., to find out which days in a daily devotional we missed from last month, to easily jump back to where we had been reading through a monograph that got opened during a search to a different spot).

TCBlack said:

Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:

Anything else you'd like to see us prioritize?

The ability of the reading plan tool to isolate chapters in books other than the Bible. 

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It's even worse for Vyrso 365-day devotionals.

Improving the reading tool would eliminate having to tediously create a custom reading plan, chapter by chapter, or day by day.

Mike Binks said:

TCBlack said:

Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:

Anything else you'd like to see us prioritize?

The ability of the reading plan tool to isolate chapters in books other than the Bible.

I struggle to understand why the reading tool is not one of the highest priority items on the list all the time. It certainly has been a sore point in my Logos use over the years.

One would think that with Faithlife wanting us to buy resources the tools for making them easy and convenient to read in a planned way would be seen to be a factor in the companies bottom line. But it seems to languish in the ignored tray version after version. Perhaps it is not exciting work?

I've created a thread for us to hash out a specific list of requests and behavioral desires from a book reading plan:  

Requesting reading plan generation improvements

Let's build a coherent, obtainable list.

SO excited about a new notes tool. I have given up on the documents tool multiple times because it has never made sense to me. Is there a timeframe on when we can start using the new notes tool?