The one thing small thing that would make the biggest difference, I think, would be to be able to temporarily filter by index type. If I'm prioritising lexicons, I only need to see resources that have a greek headword index.
Need some features for helping with the prioritizing task
Rosie Perera
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As the number of resources we have grows, and our prioritization list
grows, it becomes harder and harder to organize our prioritization list
well. Here are some feature additions that would help.
1) This has already been requested dozens of times, but I'll echo it again here for completeness: The ability to organize the list by type with automatic headings. Yes, there's a clever workaround that someone came up with, but this really should be built into the program.
2) The ability to do a find (Ctrl+F) within prioritization list to see if something is already prioritized. I know that if you drag something to prioritize which was already prioritized it will simply prioritize it again which shouldn't be a big deal, but I might have spent some mental energy to think about the best position to prioritize it before, and this would move it to a new place that might not be as well thought-out.
3) The ability to expand the prioritization pane wider to view multiple columns so you could see the entire list at once (if you have a large enough monitor).
4) A column (or at least a filter) in the Library show whether a resource is prioritized or not. So you can find resources that you'd have wanted to add to your prioritization order (e.g., lexicons, commentary sets) but had forgotten.
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The one thing small thing that would make the biggest difference, I think, would be to be able to temporarily filter by index type. If I'm prioritising lexicons, I only need to see resources that have a greek headword index.
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[Y] for Rosie's ideas
[Y] for Mark's idea
Plus: I would like to see headings automatically generated for each category which Logos processes against and the user drag and drop resources into the pre-existing categories. And I would like to see a warning in the form of a text color change on any resource lacking the index necessary to work in the assigned category. Note this would allow Logos to add/change prioritization categories and for the user to know whether or not they'd modified priorities to match
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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[Y][Y]
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I would also love there to be a way to take into account star ratings within prioritization.
Right now I haven't taken the time to prioritize the best commentaries for each book of the Bible but rather prioritize commentary series. So for example if I generally like Pillar better than Baker Exegetical (and have it prioritized that way) but a Baker Exegetical Commentary for a particular book is better (say has a 5 star rating) than the Pillar (with a 4 star rating) it would be nice for the commentary section of the passage guide to take this into account.
Prov. 15:23
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Kevin Becker said:
I would also love there to be a way to take into account star ratings within prioritization.
Right now I haven't taken the time to prioritize the best commentaries for each book of the Bible but rather prioritize commentary series. So for example if I generally like Pillar better than Baker Exegetical (and have it prioritized that way) but a Baker Exegetical Commentary for a particular book is better (say has a 5 star rating) than the Pillar (with a 4 star rating) it would be nice for the commentary section of the passage guide to take this into account.
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Kevin Becker said:
I would also love there to be a way to take into account star ratings within prioritization.
Right now I haven't taken the time to prioritize the best commentaries for each book of the Bible but rather prioritize commentary series. So for example if I generally like Pillar better than Baker Exegetical (and have it prioritized that way) but a Baker Exegetical Commentary for a particular book is better (say has a 5 star rating) than the Pillar (with a 4 star rating) it would be nice for the commentary section of the passage guide to take this into account.
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To pretty much everything in this thread:
[Y] !!!
I'd add that the use of prioritized resources (as far as I know and best I can tell
is constrained to specific functions within L4. So rather than one page to manage all of them - unwieldy, as Rosie's and Mark Barnes' (from past posts) pages indicate, I'd be happy with "Prioritize Bibles" and "Prioritize Lexicons" and "Prioritize Commentaries" pages. If they want to store that information internally much as they do now, fine. But a principle of UI design is don't expose an application's internal design (data model, file formats, whatever) as the UI if that's not the best UI for the task.Donnie
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Donnie Hale said:
I'd add that the use of prioritized resources (as far as I know and best I can tell
is constrained to specific functions within L4. So rather than one page to manage all of them - unwieldy, as Rosie's and Mark Barnes' (from past posts) pages indicate, I'd be happy with "Prioritize Bibles" and "Prioritize Lexicons" and "Prioritize Commentaries" pages. If they want to store that information internally much as they do now, fine. But a principle of UI design is don't expose an application's internal design (data model, file formats, whatever) as the UI if that's not the best UI for the task.This is an alternative approach to my idea of automatic heading records.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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[Y] to most that's been said. I would also like the advanced prioritizations to be collapsible, so as not to take up so much space; and maybe the series to be expandable and allow for the removal of individual titles that might not be of the same quality as the rest of the series.
And I would definitely want to be able to see in Collections whether something was prioritized or not, and to be able to prioritize from there. After all, from where is it easiest to do a suitable prioritization, if not from a collection of a particular kind of resources, sorted by rating? Not to talk of how much easier it would be to spot the titles one's missed to prioritize.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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fgh said:
I would also like the advanced prioritizations to be collapsible, so as not to take up so much space
Amen!
Kevin Becker said:I would also love there to be a way to take into account star ratings within prioritization.
Right now I haven't taken the time to prioritize the best
commentaries for each book of the Bible but rather prioritize commentary
series. So for example if I generally like Pillar better than Baker
Exegetical (and have it prioritized that way) but a Baker Exegetical
Commentary for a particular book is better (say has a 5 star rating)
than the Pillar (with a 4 star rating) it would be nice for the
commentary section of the passage guide to take this into account.I suggested this when the feature first came out. My suggestion would be:
- That by default users prioritise only by star-rating (i.e. prioritisation becomes an advanced feature that needs be be turned on).
- That even when prioritisation is turned on, non-prioritised resources are prioritised by star rating.
This is my personal Faithlife account. On 1 March 2022, I started working for Faithlife, and have a new 'official' user account. Posts on this account shouldn't be taken as official Faithlife views!
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