Notes
Notes got a major overhaul In Logos 8.
They are now managed in a separate tool that allows you to better record, organize, and share your thoughts on any biblical text or resource. You can create multiple Notebooks to organize your notes however you like, and advanced filters let you find a specific note more easily.
You can learn all about about the new Notes tool through the links below.
Feel free to use this forum thread to post questions and feedback.
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Hi, is there a way to see multiple notes at once? It seems like it is a view notes one at a time kind of system now, but maybe I'm missing something? Just curious because if I was studying a particular passage it was nice to break it up with multiple notes but see them all at the same time.
Thanks
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Benjamin Hefner said:
Hi, is there a way to see multiple notes at once? It seems like it is a view notes one at a time kind of system now, but maybe I'm missing something?
Currently we can see extracts of notes in the browse panel but only the full content of one note at a time.
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Thanks Graham. The changes to Notes look really good by the way. The organization features are great! One more question - can you put images or media into a note?
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Benjamin Hefner said:
One more question - can you put images or media into a note?
Not at the moment.
I think I have seen someone from Faithlife mention they would like to add this but I don't know when / if that might happen.
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Graham Criddle said:
I think I have seen someone from Faithlife mention they would like to add this but I don't know when / if that might happen.
You're right Graham. This is something that has been suggested, and may be seen in some future release.
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How do I get all of my notes to show up in my Bible. In L7 There were visible. Now with 8 they are all hidden and I have to go and lick each one to make it visible. Very time consuming.
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can you chain link documents... ie: link from a note to a note or to a canvas?
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James C. said:
How do I get all of my notes to show up in my Bible. In L7 There were visible. Now with 8 they are all hidden and I have to go and lick each one to make it visible. Very time consuming.
James,
I'm sorry about that. Those visual filters should be defaulted to "on" (visible) for all your notebooks. We're looking into it.
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Benjamin Hefner said:
Hi, is there a way to see multiple notes at once? It seems like it is a view notes one at a time kind of system now, but maybe I'm missing something? Just curious because if I was studying a particular passage it was nice to break it up with multiple notes but see them all at the same time.
Thanks
You should be able to open multiple instances of the notes panel by right clicking on the icon in the tools menu and choosing "open in a new tab". You can also duplicate the notes tool with ctrl+shift+n.
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James C. said:
Now with 8 they are all hidden and I have to go and lick each one to make it visible.
James, I'm sorry to hear your notes defaulted to off. I think they're supposed to be visible by default; I'll look into whether we have a bug there.
Meanwhile, there are some somewhat hidden options that should help you manage the visibility much more quickly. If you hover over the "Notes and Highlights" entry in the Visual Filters menu, you'll see a little circle with an arrow:
The "Select all" option will turn on all of the filters for this resource.
Additionally, on an individual filter's row (like "Another palette", in the above screenshot), there's another menu that will let you turn the filter off (or on) in all your resources (instead of just the current one):
Hope this helps!
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Here is a video of my problem
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Most of my highlights are missing in my bibles. Is this due to the notes upgrade?
How can I get them back?
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William Walker said:
Most of my highlights are missing in my bibles. Is this due to the notes upgrade?
How can I get them back?
Hey William, are your notes and highlights turned on in the visual filter menu?
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William, is your app still syncing (indicated by the rotating arrows in the upper right)? When moving to L8, we do have to re-sync your notes content down because of various significant internal format changes. This operation can take a while if you have a lot of existing notes.
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William, is your app still syncing (indicated by the rotating arrows in the upper right)? When moving to L8, we do have to re-sync your notes content down because of various significant internal format changes. This operation can take a while if you have a lot of existing notes.
That's good to know!
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James C. said:
Here is a video of my problem
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX25kmQwFlU&feature=youtu.be:550:0]James, thank you, your video was very helpful. We will take a look.
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James C. said:
Here is a video of my problem
James your video was helpful for understanding the issue you're reporting. Your ESV Text Changes notebook is certainly supposed to be appearing in the visual filter's list of notebooks.
Could you please also post a log file from an application session where you opened the visual filter menu and added or removed a note from the ESV Text Changes notebook?
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Sure, how do i do that?
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Ok, I'm not sure what happened, but I can see all of my notebooks and the notes show up in the ESV. All I did was to close the program (again. I've done this a few times today). Then I tried to create a note in the ESV with the right click, but the "ESV Text Changes" notebook was not visible from the drop down menu. So, I used the "add a note" from the Notes menu and once I did that I looked and all my notes where there and visible.
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William, is your app still syncing (indicated by the rotating arrows in the upper right)? When moving to L8, we do have to re-sync your notes content down because of various significant internal format changes. This operation can take a while if you have a lot of existing notes.
Thank you Jacob. That's probably what it is since I just upgraded my mobile app. Not sure how to check if it's syncing on the mobile app though. I will update here later to let you know if everything is back to normal.
Thank you for your quick response.
FYI: I was trying to upgrade the desktop app but the download link appears to be broken. https://www.logos.com/cgi/DownloadFile.aspx?ID=280
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Kyle B (Faithlife) said:
Notes got a major overhaul In Logos 8.
System: PC, Windows 10, Logos Connect, desktop
After reading the documentation and watching videos for Logos 8 (Thank you, Logos!) I am still unclear on the relationship of notes and anchors.
- Is one a subset of the other?
- How is an anchor different from linking a note to more than one text ("Edit Attachment Points")?
- What does it mean that some anchors have already been created for some of my notes but not others?
The Notes function was what originally drove me to Logos, so I am highly motivated to understand this, my favorite function.
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Jack Hairston said:Kyle B (Faithlife) said:
Notes got a major overhaul In Logos 8.
System: PC, Windows 10, Logos Connect, desktop
After reading the documentation and watching videos for Logos 8 (Thank you, Logos!) I am still unclear on the relationship of notes and anchors.
- Is one a subset of the other?
- How is an anchor different from linking a note to more than one text ("Edit Attachment Points")?
- What does it mean that some anchors have already been created for some of my notes but not others?
The Notes function was what originally drove me to Logos, so I am highly motivated to understand this, my favorite function.
Think of an anchor as something you are attaching the note to. The note is the content you are creating, the anchor is what you are attaching that content to such as a reference, headword, lemma, etc.
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Jack Hairston said:
How is an anchor different from linking a note to more than one text ("Edit Attachment Points")?
Jack, they are not different. What L7 called "attachment points" is what is now called "anchor".
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Alan Palmer (Faithlife) said:Jack Hairston said:
How is an anchor different from linking a note to more than one text ("Edit Attachment Points")?
Jack, they are not different. What L7 called "attachment points" is what is now called "anchor".
Now THAT was helpful. Thanks, Alan.
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William Walker said:
William, is your app still syncing (indicated by the rotating arrows in the upper right)? When moving to L8, we do have to re-sync your notes content down because of various significant internal format changes. This operation can take a while if you have a lot of existing notes.
Thank you Jacob. That's probably what it is since I just upgraded my mobile app. Not sure how to check if it's syncing on the mobile app though. I will update here later to let you know if everything is back to normal.
Thank you for your quick response.
FYI: I was trying to upgrade the desktop app but the download link appears to be broken. https://www.logos.com/cgi/DownloadFile.aspx?ID=280
I was finally able to download the Logos 8 desktop installer and when I started it up all of my highlights were present. However, they were still missing from the mobile app. I uninstalled the mobile app and re-installed it and then got a message that my notes were rebuilding and after that the highlights all showed up. Will now work on getting my head around how the new notes work. [:)]
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How can we set the default note style? That's kinda an important time saving feature that looks like it's gone. Am I just missing it somehow?
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Currently there is no way to do this. However, this is on a list of upcoming features shown on this page
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That's a bummer. I feel like we do this at every upgrade with little things like this. We pay for upgrades that should be beta but aren't quit ready for the public yet.
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jonB said:
That's a bummer. I feel like we do this at every upgrade with little things like this. We pay for upgrades that should be beta but aren't quit ready for the public yet.
In fairness, this is the way it is when you early adopt a software. This was also documented in the FAQ's.
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