New in Logos 9: Factbook redesign

Description: Start your study on anything in the vastly expanded Factbook. In addition to people, places, and concepts, Factbook now supports lookup for Bible passages, Greek and Hebrew lemmas and word senses, original manuscripts, authors, resources, and much more. Start with the Key Article for a quick summary, and click through to other Logos tools and searches to dig deeper.

Learn how to use Factbook.

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Question: How do Factbook, Topic Guide, and for that matter, Sermon Starter Guide differ from one another? Why do we need all three?

John Fidel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129362#Comment_1129362

The way I see it is that the Factbook is hardwired in the information it provides. It also provides links to the Topic Guide and Sermon Starter if appropriate. The other two guides can be customized for each persons preferences, which I have done by adding collections. The Topic Guide creates searches for heading and large text in those collections. Here is a screen shot side by side for Grace.

The Topic Guide, as customized is providing me additional information from my library. So, it is the ability to customize the other two guides, for me, that provides added value over the Factbook.

Other may have different uses or opinions.

J.D. Matthews

Can you turn off factbook automatic hyperlinks and use the right-click menu instead? Sometimes I want to select text for other reasons, but a single left click opens the factbook unintentionally.

Michael

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129648#Comment_1129648

Can you turn off factbook automatic hyperlinks and use the right-click menu instead? Sometimes I want to select text for other reasons, but a single left click opens the factbook unintentionally.

Yes. Factbook is an option in the right click menu.

Michael

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129648#Comment_1129648

Can you turn off factbook automatic hyperlinks and use the right-click menu instead? Sometimes I want to select text for other reasons, but a single left click opens the factbook unintentionally.

Yes. Factbook is an option in the right click menu.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129648#Comment_1129648

Can you turn off factbook automatic hyperlinks

Use the "Factbook visual filter" button in the resource toolbar (right next to the regular visual filter button).

Sean Boisen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129663#Comment_1129663

Can you turn off factbook automatic hyperlinks

Use the "Factbook visual filter" button in the resource toolbar (right next to the regular visual filter button).

J.D. Matthews

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129648#Comment_1129648

Thanks,

That worked. I turned it off. The hyperlinks got annoying. The right-click menu is perfect.

-JDM

Colin Ware

If I update I might have to use this feature. Like a lot of Logos, in the past I have found it to be to complicated so did not use it. The information on the hyperlink was easy to follow.

Thank you

Colin

Joe Mayden

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130710#Comment_1130710

Mo's video's on Factbook show the following - the lemmas are below the sense category - in order for me to get to the lemmas I have to click "shift enter" to expand the factbook. Then down at the very bottom are the Lemmas.

When I enter another word lie 'propitiation' The lemmas appear in the drop down without clicking the "shift enter".

Can there be some consistency or better preference to what appears?

Thanks,

Sean Boisen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1131516#Comment_1131516

Mo's video's on Factbook show the following - the lemmas are below the sense category - in order for me to get to the lemmas I have to click "shift enter" to expand the factbook. Then down at the very bottom are the Lemmas.

When I enter another word lie 'propitiation' The lemmas appear in the drop down without clicking the "shift enter".

Can there be some consistency or better preference to what appears?

Thanks,

Joe, i don't quite understand what you're reporting here. Can you elaborate (and perhaps post a screenshot to add context)?

Paul M

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132600#Comment_1132600

Can anyone explain to me where information about the genre of a book is surfaced in the Factbook> If I look at the Gospel of John under Bible Book Guide there doesn't seem to be a section / subsection relating to genre.

thanks

Paul

Sean Boisen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132634#Comment_1132634

Can anyone explain to me where information about the genre of a book is surfaced in the Factbook> If I look at the Gospel of John under Bible Book Guide there doesn't seem to be a section / subsection relating to genre.

thanks

Paul

Bible Book Guide > Form > Style is where you'll find discussions of genre. See the Bible Book Guide Dataset Documentation for more about these sections and what they cover. Note that the Bible Book Guide is powered by your library, so the contents depend on what resources you own.

Adam Olean

Description: Start your study on anything in the vastly expanded Factbook. In addition to people, places, and concepts, Factbook now supports lookup for Bible passages, Greek and Hebrew lemmas and word senses, original manuscripts, authors, resources, and much more. Start with the Key Article for a quick summary, and click through to other Logos tools and searches to dig deeper.

Learn how to use Factbook.

Some features in Logos 9 can be easy to overlook and underestimate initially—until you realize the sheer scope, magnitude, complexity, and depth of ongoing revisions to tools like Factbook. I'm grateful to see how it's been expanded to encompass topics directly relevant to biblical studies and well beyond. Keep up the good work!

Adam Olean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132668#Comment_1132668

If any fellow Logos users see the usefulness of the following suggestion, please feel free to vote for it and to provide any feedback: "Suggestion: Navigate Factbook entries with Hebrew, Greek, & Aramaic (including biblical people, places/toponyms, & things)".

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132641#Comment_1132641

Bible Book Guide > Form > Style is where you'll find discussions of genre. See the Bible Book Guide Dataset Documentation for more about these sections and what they cover. Note that the Bible Book Guide is powered by your library, so the contents depend on what resources you own.

Sean,

Would you consider relabeling that section "Genre" or "Style and Genre"? I wouldn't think to look there for genre information if you didn't point that out.

Thanks,

Peter

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132674#Comment_1132674

Would you consider relabeling that section "Genre" or "Style and Genre"? I wouldn't think to look there for genre information if you didn't point that out.

I'd not be happy with "Genre" simply because it has been "Style" for several years and a couple of versions of Logos. Users have gotten use to the current title and would be thrown by a change unless there was an obvious change in content driving it.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132680#Comment_1132680

I see... I'm just "discovering" this section of the Factbook

Paul M

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132674#Comment_1132674

Would you consider relabeling that section "Genre" or "Style and Genre"? I wouldn't think to look there for genre information if you didn't point that out.

I think that is why I didn't look their either. Genre is a little narrow for the data included by the look of it because it covers a wider variety of linguistic questions / issues.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132680#Comment_1132680

Users have gotten use to the current title and would be thrown by a change unless there was an obvious change in content driving it.

How many users know this exists?

I think that adding "and Genre" won't confuse users who've already been using it, because they already know that it contains stuff about genre.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132721#Comment_1132721

How many users know this exists?

Given that the subsections were independent sections, I would expect everyone who looked up a Bible book to have noticed it ... but how many users read and remember, I won't try to estimate.

adding "and Genre"

An add not a replacement is acceptable .. and except in the case of a early beta, this is not an issue I'd push any further than expressing my opinion.

Michel Pauw

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132743#Comment_1132743

How do I get resources in the 'Books from Your Library' section of the Factbook? Too often it says 'no results' while I for sure know that I have some books in my library that deal with the topic and even have the topic key term in the title.

Mike Binks

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1134893#Comment_1134893

I have some books in my library that deal with the topic and even have the topic key term in the title.

If you give us some example we can test for you.

I get no books if the search is for 'Rudeness' and only four for 'Faith' so I guess it is a function of the lack of curation?

Michel Pauw

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1134898#Comment_1134898

If you give us some example we can test for you.

Here's an example: If I want to pull the Factbook on 'Money' I would expect that Logos would pull up at least all of the 9 resources in my library that have 'money' in the title. Instead, the Factbooks only refers to the two journals.

Mike Binks

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1134913#Comment_1134913

Not only do I get the exact same two journals but my name is also Michael! Spooky or what?

I guess it is a function of the lack of curation - which I understand is being worked on.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1134923#Comment_1134923

Check the Subject tagging of the 'missing' resources. If none of their subjects are "money", they won't appear in "Books from Your Library" for "Money".

(One easy way to check is using the Library panel with the "Subjects" column checked.)

Michel Pauw

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1134932#Comment_1134932

Check the Subject tagging of the 'missing' resources. If none of their subjects are "money", they won't appear in "Books from Your Library" for "Money".

Nope, that doesn't seem to be the problem:

both journals that show up are not tagged 'money'
they do have 'money' as their subject
but then, there is another resource with 'money' as subject which doesn't show up in the Factbook

There doesn't seem to be any logic in which resources and up in the Factbook...

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1134963#Comment_1134963

There doesn't seem to be any logic in which resources and up in the Factbook...

My undesrtanding is that resources need to be specifically tagged to show up in this section - and Faithlife is working on the list.

Sean Boisen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1134968#Comment_1134968

There doesn't seem to be any logic in which resources and up in the Factbook...

My undesrtanding is that resources need to be specifically tagged to show up in this section - and Faithlife is working on the list.

That's correct. There's a bit more detail here: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/195265/1128644.aspx#1128644