Duplicating a single note / Organizing a Topic study

I was doing a topic study. I have lots of anchors – based on dictionary articles and relevant verses. Then I made comments on each verse, so this Note is a big one already. Then I add tags. (I have one tag for each question I raise). I ended up with 100 Tags! I was cutting-pasting all the Tags from my Excel file into the Note rapidly. When done, I realized the space occupied by the Tags left no place to see the Anchors or the comments I made. Now when I click on the Note, I see only the Tags.

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After a couple of days of frustration, I moved from my laptop to a big screen. That didn’t help. Still too many tags. Then I had to go to Program Settings and change the Program Scaling to 80%. I am able to see my comments now. Whew!

Could somebody suggest a better way to organize contents from a Topic study?
Is there a way to duplicate a Note? (I saw a 2015 Forum post saying "No". Hoping it is different today.) Then, I can keep all the Tags in Note 1 and keep all the Anchors in Note 2.

Thanks to all for your help.

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Dave Hooton

Could somebody suggest a better way to organize contents from a Topic study?

I use clippings for Topic studies. You can incorporate tags and hyperlinks to Notes as necessary. But...

Your topic should be a Notebook
You can create an Unanchored note for the Topic details (using New Note)

accessible from Filters > Anchor

Add notes as required

You can have the same passage in different Notebooks

Create dictionary hyperlinks in the Unanchored note
Add tags as required

Is there a way to duplicate a Note? (I saw a 2015 Forum post saying "No". Hoping it is different today.) Then, I can keep all the Tags in Note 1 and keep all the Anchors in Note 2.

No, but you can duplicate a Notebook from the Panel menu (or from a right-click in the Documents menu).

1Cor10 31

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1259485#Comment_1259485

1Cor10 31">Could somebody suggest a better way to organize contents from a Topic study?

I use clippings for Topic studies. You can incorporate tags and hyperlinks to Notes as necessary. But...

Your topic should be a Notebook

You can create an Unanchored note for the Topic details (using New Note)

accessible from Filters > Anchor

Add notes as required

You can have the same passage in different Notebooks

Create dictionary hyperlinks in the Unanchored note

Add tags as required

Thank you Dave. I’m going to give Clippings a try, especially since I understand that we reorder the clippings in a more meaningful order once I finish my study (but not Anchors in a Note – thank you for your response to my other Forum post).

Usually, I attach my one big Note (containing the big collection of articles, verses, and my comments) that I create for the topic to a keyword in all the verses related to the topic. Is there a way to add the Clippings document similarly? I have been toying around, but I can’t seem to find a way to do it.
If we are unable to attach a clippings file to the verse or word in the verse, how do you remind yourself that you have done a detailed study when you read the Bible? Given that God chose not to endow me with memory, this is important, otherwise, in a weeks time I’ll be repeating the same topic study!

1Cor10 31">Is there a way to duplicate a Note? (I saw a 2015 Forum post saying "No". Hoping it is different today.) Then, I can keep all the Tags in Note 1 and keep all the Anchors in Note 2.

No, but you can duplicate a Notebook from the Panel menu (or from a right-click in the Documents menu).

This is a really cool work around to duplicating a Note. I moved the Note I wanted to duplicate into a Notebook. Then I duplicated the Notebook as you suggested. So the Note was now there in both Notebooks. The key is that Logos treats each duplicate Note as effectively independent, so I can make independent changes to the Note in each of the two Notebook. This is cool. Thanks.

I hope MJ does a “L/V 10+ Tip of the Day” based on your response.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1259543#Comment_1259543

Usually, I attach my one big Note (containing the big collection of articles, verses, and my comments) that I create for the topic to a keyword in all the verses related to the topic. Is there a way to add the Clippings document similarly? I have been toying around, but I can’t seem to find a way to do it.

Just go to Panel menu > Copy location as and click URL - that is your hyperlink for the clippings document (but not to a specific clip within).

If we are unable to attach a clippings file to the verse or word in the verse, how do you remind yourself that you have done a detailed study when you read the Bible? Given that God chose not to endow me with memory, this is important, otherwise, in a weeks time I’ll be repeating the same topic study!

I sort the Documents menu by typing Clipping in the Find box (or by typing a topic name)

1Cor10 31

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1259592#Comment_1259592

1Cor10 31">Usually, I attach my one big Note (containing the big collection of articles, verses, and my comments) that I create for the topic to a keyword in all the verses related to the topic. Is there a way to add the Clippings document similarly? I have been toying around, but I can’t seem to find a way to do it.

Just go to Panel menu > Copy location as and click URL - that is your hyperlink for the clippings document (but not to a specific clip within).

1Cor10 31">If we are unable to attach a clippings file to the verse or word in the verse, how do you remind yourself that you have done a detailed study when you read the Bible? Given that God chose not to endow me with memory, this is important, otherwise, in a weeks time I’ll be repeating the same topic study!

I sort the Documents menu by typing Clipping in the Find box (or by typing a topic name)

Thanks a lot Dave. I think I now have a fairly reasonable idea of how to take the best of both worlds (Notes and Clippings).

(i) In the Clippings file, I collect sentences and paras from articles on the topic I’m working on. I could add my own Note and Tag to individual clippings if I so desire.

(ii) In the Notes file, I collect all the verses related to the topic. At the top of the Note, I put the URL link to the Clippings. I may organize these verse along themes. But the key is that this Note has everything is in one place related to the Topic.

(iii) I then attach this Note to the keyword in each of the verses to serve as a visual marker that I had done some work on this Topic. This also allows me to maintain verse-specific comments in the verse itself and verse-specific topic-related tags.

I am sure I’ll refine it as my experience with Clippings grow.

Thank you.