When are we going to see highlighting on the iPad?

I've been waiting for a long time for this basic feature to added to Logos for the iPad. I've been using other apps for reading and studying in the mean time. If I'm not mistaken, we were told months ago that highlighting would be coming soon, which leads me to believe that its coming out any day now. Does any one have any idea when we'll see it?

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JT (alabama24)

David - First, welcome to the forums! The short answer is that we don't know when it will be available. The heart of the matter is that Logos must first get "sync v2" up and running. This is the major component of Logos 4.5, which is in beta now.

By the way, you might want to look at THIS THREAD to get a sneak peek of highlighting on the iPad.

Mike Binks

highlighting would be coming soon, which leads me to believe that its coming out any day now.

Works fine for me. Best to used water based markers though - the solvent ones are hard to wipe off the screen.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/302340#Comment_302340

[Insert Groan] He's here all week folks. [:)]

Kevin A. Purcell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/302344#Comment_302344

[Insert Groan] He's here all week folks.

Let me know when the new guys starts. [:D]

Philana Crouch

I've been waiting for a long time for this basic feature to added to Logos for the iPad. I've been using other apps for reading and studying in the mean time. If I'm not mistaken, we were told months ago that highlighting would be coming soon, which leads me to believe that its coming out any day now. Does any one have any idea when we'll see it?

My best bet is when Logos 4.5 becomes a stable release that an update with highlighting and notes will come to the mobile apps shortly. I think everyone has to have Sync 2 on the desktop before they can add those to the mobile apps or it would cause a mess. So keep an eye out for 4.5 to come out of beta.

Randal M Hill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/302594#Comment_302594

the fact is that every other app for reading ebooks on the iPad has had highlighting forever (Kindle, Nook, Goodreader, etc). I guess the problem is the proprietary ebook format that Logos has been using????

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/313470#Comment_313470

the fact is that every other app for reading ebooks on the iPad has had highlighting forever (Kindle, Nook, Goodreader, etc). I guess the problem is the proprietary ebook format that Logos has been using????

Nope. It's just that Logos has to make everything work with the desktop app. If you were to extrapolate bits and pieces that the developers have let slip publicly, it sounds like they are trying to get it up by the end of the year. [I base this on two things: 1) They are hoping to have the reading plans switched over to "sync v2" by the beginning of the year and 2) the reading plan will not be switched over until the highlighting and notes is completed.] NOTE: I have no knowledge of when an actual update may occur, but am hopeful that it will be soon. When 4.5 (currently in beta) goes live, that is when you can start looking / hoping for an updated mobile app.

Philana Crouch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/313478#Comment_313478

the fact is that every other app for reading ebooks on the iPad has had highlighting forever (Kindle, Nook, Goodreader, etc). I guess the problem is the proprietary ebook format that Logos has been using????

Nope. It's just that Logos has to make everything work with the desktop app. If you were to extrapolate bits and pieces that the developers have let slip publicly, it sounds like they are trying to get it up by the end of the year. [I base this on two things: 1) They are hoping to have the reading plans switched over to "sync v2" by the beginning of the year and 2) the reading plan will not be switched over until the highlighting and notes is completed.] NOTE: I have no knowledge of when an actual update may occur, but am hopeful that it will be soon. When 4.5 (currently in beta) goes live, that is when you can start looking / hoping for an updated mobile app.

Also Dan Pritchett shared a screenshot on Twitter, so I would guess its pretty soon!

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/313482#Comment_313482

The beta of the new sync is well into beta testing. The highlighting and notes for the iPad, android, etc is dependent on this new sync architecture. So we likely won't see it on the iPad until the PC/Mac beta goes public. But I beta that the iPad highlighting will be released shortly thereafter.

Kevin A. Purcell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/313506#Comment_313506

But I beta that the iPad highlighting will be released shortly thereafter.

So you beta huh? Interesting.

toughski

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314007#Comment_314007

But I beta that the iPad highlighting will be released shortly thereafter.

So you beta huh? Interesting.

beta late than never...[:D]

Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314026#Comment_314026

But I beta that the iPad highlighting will be released shortly thereafter.

So you beta huh? Interesting.

beta late than never...

We beta kill this pun.... No beta day than today to do it!

Wes Saad

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314029#Comment_314029

Come on guys, really? Painful puns this early in the morning? You all are beta than this.

Mike Binks

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314049#Comment_314049

Chris Roberts Replied: Today 4:33 PM

Come on guys, really? Painful puns this early in the morning? You all are beta than this.

What time to you get up?

Gary Butner, Th.D.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314101#Comment_314101

My faith isn't moving this mountain.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314162#Comment_314162

My faith isn't moving this mountain.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Steve

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314165#Comment_314165

or perhaps highlighting is more like Judgment Day......it sounded like it would happen soon, it has never happened, but now and then someone says they know when it will.......

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314228#Comment_314228

...the day and hour nobody knows...

Wes Saad

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314165#Comment_314165

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Our highlights are happening, they are just invisible?

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314307#Comment_314307

Yup.

Gary Butner, Th.D.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314165#Comment_314165

My faith isn't moving this mountain.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Good comeback!

Steve

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/314363#Comment_314363

as was the comparison to the Judgment Day....

but all joking aside, many people will start new reading plans on January 1.......highlighting would sure be handy for those new reading plans..........

Jon

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/315984#Comment_315984

Well if you noticed the release that was put out this week was not adding syncing up notes/highlights. It was just a couple of bug fixes. If you haven't noticed the trend of releases there won't be another this week. So Highlighting will not be a part of this years additions. I agree having highlighting for the beginning of the new year's reading plan would have been great but i guess it wouldn't be until next year.

Hopefully it will be in January. So it won't be a lot of reading that isn't highlighted. But i won't count on it. I am glad i suggested getting a Bible in some other app to my friends and congregants, so they could highlight and add notes now. I know that what logos is providing to us will be far superior to the product other apps have given but highlighting is a huge issue. It is pretty funny that if you flip through the pages of the forum it seems like every page has one comment on highlights it appears to be what everyone wants followed by notes.

Terry Barker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/313478#Comment_313478

Thanks for that answer but who says the desktop app HAS to be up and running first? Seriously? That is very 20th century thinking. Most developers realize that the handheld is the future and that they technology developed there is being ported back to desktops. Apple inc. is a prime example.

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/324760#Comment_324760

Thanks for that answer but who says the desktop app HAS to be up and running first?

Logos has told us this

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/324760#Comment_324760

Thanks for that answer but who says the desktop app HAS to be up and running first?

Logos is primarily a Bible Study Software company. The mobile app is designed to primarily service the desktop app users.

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/324845#Comment_324845

I think it was Bob, in a much older posting, refered to one of the reasons that Highlighting is so hard to get right. Assuming I'm remembering it right, one of the early issues was to do with how the positions are recorded. Lets say I want to highlight words 3, 4, and 5 of John 3:16 in ESV. How is that data item recorded? If you pick something too simple, it breaks when there is a typo update, or minor edit made to the ESV text.

My understanding is that the more recent issues is a simple scaling issue with how the updates are synced between the clients and the servers.

My simple view of the solution is that if the server and each client kept timestamp values on user-data, then the small subset of any that are more recent on one, and needing to be synced to the other should make it "easy" to solve. I trust and hope that the Logos developers have got the core plumbing right in the new "Sync 2" designs.