iPad workflow

I have been using the iPad app for a few weeks now and am impressed with how easy it is to get around in. It did take some diligent effort to learn to create a workflow that is efficient. Below are a few tips you may want to include in your workflow:

Prioritize your Bible, Dictionaries etc in Logos 4. Those priorities will be consistent with the iPad.
The collections you create in Logos 4 will also carry over to the iPad. I found that creating a few just for the iPad app helped. I created collections for an iPad Favorite Bibles and an iPad Bible Dictionaries. Details as to why are below.
To get started with the home page for a bible study I click on verse and then enter my verse. If I have a study going, I usually click on the read icon at the bottom to start where I left off.
To change bible translations, rather than going to the library, I swipe up and then select text comparison. This will bring up my top 5 Bibles. Again, if these are not what you want then see number 1 above. To change tap on one of the 5 bibles and you go there. To return to the original translation you have 2 options. Tap to get the menu and tap on the back button or swipe up, select text comparison and select your preferred bible.
The Passage Guide is an excellent way to dig deeper into your library. Once you select a commentary read, if you want to select another commentary then tap to get the menu and select the passage guide icon. This will take you back to the PG.. select another commentary.. read.. repeat.
When I want to get back to my biblical text I tap to get the menu and then tap on the ESV and it takes me back.
If I want to study a word I tap and hold until the pop up and then go to BWS or search. If I want to study the English I select search. The first time this will run a bible search on the top 5. I tap where is says "Top Bibles" and a scroll opens at the bottom allowing me to limit my search to a specific text... go to the bottom.. I usually limit the search to the ESV. Click Done.
If I want to look at dictionary entries for this word I click on the "Basic Search" button. This runs a search on the entire library first time by default. I click on the "Entire Library" button, the scroll opens and I select my "iPad Bible Dictionaries" and select done. This does run a topic search, but depending on the word you should get several headings with your word. Again to get back to my biblical text I tap to open the menu and then elect the ESV.
Next to search for citations, swipe up and select this option. Again, it will run the search on the entire library. I repeat step 8 and select the collection I am interested in.

I have found having the plethora of resources available to me, especially the NICs and BDAG, very helpful and something that no other bible software app currently provides. I do have a few suggestions for improvement:

Allow for notes and highlighting (this is not the first time this has been requested I know)
All us in Logos 4 to select which collections show up on our iPad.
When doing a basic search, it would be helpful to have a bit more information as to the source of the hit, like the name of the resource.
Expand the pop up when we tap and hold on a word to run the BWS for the English word and to allow the search to include the original language word. For the English BWS populate the definition with bible dictionaries.

This app is very functional for in-depth Bible study provided you have an internet connection.

Hope this helps some of you use the app more efficiently. BTW, I would love to shoot a video, but without screen capture on the iPad, I just don't have the setup.

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Jonathan Sine

John - this is very helpful. Thanks! And I concur with you (and many others) regarding the need for notes and highlighting (and collection control).

Steve Hultquist

John, well done! This is really helpful to me as an "amateur" scholar!

Dan Sheppard

Hope this helps some of you use the app more efficiently. BTW, I would love to shoot a video, but without screen capture on the iPad, I just don't have the setup.

John, try something for me.

On your iPad, click the round button at the bottom, while clicking the power off button at the same time.

On the iPhone, this DOES take a screen capture.

John Fidel

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the tip. I was referring to a video of my screen with my voice explaining what I was doing. I can shoot screen shots of anything that anyone wishes to see. I just seems like watching things is so much easier than reading an explanation.

Thanks again for your consideration of my request.

Roger Feenstra

On the iPhone, this DOES take a screen capture.

Dan, assuming this works the same on the iPad, where do you view the screen capture? I tried it and it appears to be capturing the screen, but I don't know where it goes after capture. It's not on any of my home screens.

Thanks,

Roger

tjebme

Check in your saved photos in the Apple photo app.

Dan Sheppard

I tried it and it appears to be capturing the screen, but I don't know where it goes after capture. It's not on any of my home screens.

Yep. It is saved in your photos. Assuming you have the standard first screen, it is the second button from the right, first row at the top of the iPhone screen.

Jason Saling

Another neat thing you can do is change settings so you can read in the dark (or day) with less brightness. Read white text on black background. See my post at

http://community.logos.com/forums/p/17451/132335.aspx#132335

Arnold Harper

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Bev N

I wanted to know how to create collections on/for the iPad. I bought Wiersbe's OT Commentary years ago as the individual books became available. I want to create a collection of his OT Commentaries. (New Testament is already treated as one.), will this work with the info you have given. I am running L4 on my laptop.

Once in a Collection, can I have Genesis open for example and enter in Psalms in the Scrip Ref box and it will open to that passage in Psalms?

If not, do you know what steps I need to take to achieve this in Logos for use on my iPad 4?

Thank you.

JT (alabama24)

I wanted to know how to create collections on/for the iPad.

You can't create collections on the iPad and collections do not currently sync on the release version of the app.

Once in a Collection, can I have Genesis open for example and enter in Psalms in the Scrip Ref box and it will open to that passage in Psalms?

No… and that isn't the purpose of collections. In L4/L5 when you have a series (i.e. Word Biblical Commentary), you can move from one volume to another. This feature doesn't work on mobile. When collections come to mobile, it will be for the purpose of searching.

Milford Charles Murray

I have been using the iPad app for a few weeks now and am impressed with how easy it is to get around in. It did take some diligent effort to learn to create a workflow that is efficient. Below are a few tips you may want to include in your workflow:

Prioritize your Bible, Dictionaries etc in Logos 4. Those priorities will be consistent with the iPad.

The collections you create in Logos 4 will also carry over to the iPad. I found that creating a few just for the iPad app helped. I created collections for an iPad Favorite Bibles and an iPad Bible Dictionaries. Details as to why are below.

To get started with the home page for a bible study I click on verse and then enter my verse. If I have a study going, I usually click on the read icon at the bottom to start where I left off.

To change bible translations, rather than going to the library, I swipe up and then select text comparison. This will bring up my top 5 Bibles. Again, if these are not what you want then see number 1 above. To change tap on one of the 5 bibles and you go there. To return to the original translation you have 2 options. Tap to get the menu and tap on the back button or swipe up, select text comparison and select your preferred bible.

The Passage Guide is an excellent way to dig deeper into your library. Once you select a commentary read, if you want to select another commentary then tap to get the menu and select the passage guide icon. This will take you back to the PG.. select another commentary.. read.. repeat.

When I want to get back to my biblical text I tap to get the menu and then tap on the ESV and it takes me back.

If I want to study a word I tap and hold until the pop up and then go to BWS or search. If I want to study the English I select search. The first time this will run a bible search on the top 5. I tap where is says "Top Bibles" and a scroll opens at the bottom allowing me to limit my search to a specific text... go to the bottom.. I usually limit the search to the ESV. Click Done.

If I want to look at dictionary entries for this word I click on the "Basic Search" button. This runs a search on the entire library first time by default. I click on the "Entire Library" button, the scroll opens and I select my "iPad Bible Dictionaries" and select done. This does run a topic search, but depending on the word you should get several headings with your word. Again to get back to my biblical text I tap to open the menu and then elect the ESV.

Next to search for citations, swipe up and select this option. Again, it will run the search on the entire library. I repeat step 8 and select the collection I am interested in.

I have found having the plethora of resources available to me, especially the NICs and BDAG, very helpful and something that no other bible software app currently provides. I do have a few suggestions for improvement:

Allow for notes and highlighting (this is not the first time this has been requested I know)

All us in Logos 4 to select which collections show up on our iPad.

When doing a basic search, it would be helpful to have a bit more information as to the source of the hit, like the name of the resource.

Expand the pop up when we tap and hold on a word to run the BWS for the English word and to allow the search to include the original language word. For the English BWS populate the definition with bible dictionaries.

This app is very functional for in-depth Bible study provided you have an internet connection.

Hope this helps some of you use the app more efficiently. BTW, I would love to shoot a video, but without screen capture on the iPad, I just don't have the setup.

John write these excellent words over two years ago! I wonder if anyone has brought this kind of material up to date in a succinct way so that we can give other Logos Bible Software Users a "boost"! (Actually, I'm doing OK on my iPad2! *smile* Not quite sure always exactly what I'm doing; however it works for me. Very Well Indeed! BTW, to keep more IPad stuff open, I've downloaded all four Logos Apps (Logos - Vyrso - FaithLife - Verbum) - using each one for my own distinctive and "peculiar" purposes!)