NOTES/HIGHLIGHTS: Help me use them properly, please

I have used Logos for many years, but there is one feature that has stumped me: Notes/Highlights. I don't understand how they work. Notes and highlights are placed under "emphasis markup", "highlighter pens", "inductive/precept", etc., depending on which highlighter I am using; I get that.

Is there a place to find my notes and highlights in a particular book? For instance, if I am reading through the book of Esther, and make notes and highlights, would it not be practical, when I want to go back and review my notes/highlights, to look up "Esther" and find all of my markings? Or any other book I choose to mark? Perhaps that is possible and I am too dim to discover how it works .

Any and all thoughts on the best way to use notes/highlights would be welcomed.

Thanks!

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Graham Criddle

Hi Roger

Notes/Highlights. I don't understand how they work. Notes and highlights are placed under "emphasis markup", "highlighter pens", "inductive/precept", etc., depending on which highlighter I am using; I get that.

Highlights are stored in notes files and you can control where they are stored - and it is important to think about this as part of your approach to highlighting.

You have four options - palette-specific, most recent, resource-specific, or a specific notes file. Details in the help file

I tend to use resource-specific notes files for highlighting so I have a separate notes file for each book (not talking about biblical books here) I read

Notes are also stored in notes files - by default, the most recent notes file you have been using but you can control this when you create a note.

When reading a biblical book - such as your example of Esther - even if using resource-specific notes files all the highlights would end up in just one notes file per Bible. And with what you have described about you have all your highlights in a few palette-specific files

So this is where searching comes in useful.

There is much more to explore here but hopefully this will help get things started and point in some useful directions.

Andrew Zoll

I have used Logos for many years, but there is one feature that has stumped me: Notes/Highlights. I don't understand how they work. Notes and highlights are placed under "emphasis markup", "highlighter pens", "inductive/precept", etc., depending on which highlighter I am using; I get that.

Is there a place to find my notes and highlights in a particular book? For instance, if I am reading through the book of Esther, and make notes and highlights, would it not be practical, when I want to go back and review my notes/highlights, to look up "Esther" and find all of my markings? Or any other book I choose to mark? Perhaps that is possible and I am too dim to discover how it works .

Any and all thoughts on the best way to use notes/highlights would be welcomed.

Thanks!

Hey Pastor Roger,

There are a few ways to find highlights. The first way is to look at your notes containing highlights, and put it in quotes view to see the quotes. You can also choose which notes document a type of highlighting will go to by going to highlighting, clicking the down arrow in the palette, and selecting "Save in:" then choosing a note that's already been created, or choose to create a note specifically for this palette of highlighting, or create a note for each resource you highlight. (See attached images below)

If you are more concerned with specifically finding ALL highlights within a resource, you can run a search, {highlight *} within the selected resource (or within all of your library for that matter) and it will find every highlight within the resource(s) you have set.

Chris Garrett

Hello!

On this topic, I'm wondering if you could help me clarify something. I have all my highlighters set to create a note in a resource-specific file. And that works perfectly fine for books I'm reading. However, whenever I make a highlight in my NIV bible, it creates a new Note for each highlight. Currently I have 213 NIV notes. I would think that it should be putting them all in one "NIV Notes" note, but you can see in the screenshot that it is in 213 different notes. Where have I gone wrong? Thanks for any ideas!

blessings,

Chris

JT (alabama24)

Chris - when & where do you make your bible highlights? Is that different than other ones? Can you reproduce? You aren't doing anything wrong, there must be a bug. Please create a new thread and answer those questions, providing as much detail as possible

Michael McLane

Chris, I am more concerned that you have 47 tasks that are due in OmniFocus. Yikes! [:S]

That sends my OCD screaming.

Whyndell Grizzard

I quit using this joke part of Logos. Got tired of 100,000 note files!!!!!!!!!

Philana R. Crouch

Hello!

On this topic, I'm wondering if you could help me clarify something. I have all my highlighters set to create a note in a resource-specific file. And that works perfectly fine for books I'm reading. However, whenever I make a highlight in my NIV bible, it creates a new Note for each highlight. Currently I have 213 NIV notes. I would think that it should be putting them all in one "NIV Notes" note, but you can see in the screenshot that it is in 213 different notes. Where have I gone wrong? Thanks for any ideas!

blessings,

Chris

Chris,

I've been able to reproduce this issue, and will get a case written up for the team.

Chris Garrett

Yes ha ha! Welcome to my non-OCD world. I guess that's why I like the "omni" more than the "focus"! :-)

blessings,

Chris

Matthew

Any and all thoughts on the best way to use notes/highlights would be welcomed.

Like many here, I use resource-specific note files. This prevents any given file from getting too large and unwieldy. I can always find the relevant note file because it always has the same name as its corresponding book. The only exception is when I am adding a short note to a Bible verse. For those cases, I create a separate note file for each book of the Bible, and I always choose the option to "attach to reference." The rationale for this is that my Bible notes 1 Corinthians, for example, are not tied to any particular translation or spread out among multiple files.