Rework notes function - in one or multiple phases
Note attachment
• allow a note to be attached to multiple passages - with the note icon appearing on each passage
• allow all links - to other notes, PDF's mp3's, PowerPoint's, web, mind maps, sentence diagrams, vocabulary lists
• permit notes to be attached to a lemma, liturgical date, search string...
• allow default note icon color to be set at the file level; permit more colors (at least match L3)
• allow user selection of highlight style to indicate attached note/selected text - include suppressing highlighting or show only on mouse over
• improve input window (more like L3)
• sequence multiple note icons on a text by standard Prioritization
Note content
• permit at least as much formatting as in L3 which includes tables, illustrations, colored text, underlined text ...
• additional formating: fine control of font size, highlighting
• permit notes to be made from templates
• integrate a journaling feature - a note file that automatically includes date in the title and automatically sorts on date
Note navigation
• allow a search specifically on notes (or my content) with result search terms highlighted in automatically expanded notes
• allow tags on all notes and a search on those tags
• allow table of contents similar to L3
• sort sequences: (a) additional sequences: canon, created date, last modified date, user note title, highlighting; .(b) remember sequence function (allow temporary); (c) set priority for sort ket values (example: liturgical year)
• layout should remember position in a note file (specific note)
• add linkset functionality to notes (requires appropriate sort sequences) [this allows My Commentary; added to clippings it allows "My Catena"]
• ability to add notes to collections
• use right click rather than red x for delete
• permit drag and drop on multiple notes
Note specific functions:
• allow notes and note files to be merged or split
• add a reporting feature which pulls all notes on a given pericope into a printable, exportable file.
• Implement parity for Mac version
General functions - including but not limited to notes:
• include spell checker in notes
• retain "deleted" notes (and other user content) for a period of time - permitting a restore function
• improve the performance: keyboard entry, long notes and note files
• allow the sharing of notes between users
• automatic linking of Bible references to handle double punctuation and all standard citation abbreviations
• pop-up window (especially notes & references in notes) to be as large as the note requires with the ability to be pinned and scrolled.
• allow creation of new file and opening of any existing file via right-click (notes, clippings, etc.)
• allow prioritization of files (especially notes) in "My Content" section
• allow searching of My Content by heading
• allow the saving of a BWS either into a Clipping or a Note
Greater detail and examples available at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/30837.aspx?PageIndex=2
Please see the detailed response here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/96898.aspx
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Aaron commented
The central note manager is key I think. I want to be able to quickly and easily organize my notes. It is a pain in the neck at the moment to even move a few notes between files.
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Jonny5 commented
--- I WANT NOTING MY LOGOS BIBLE TO FEEL LIKE NOTING MY PAPER BIBLE! :) ---
• What I’m asking for is essentially switching to note “TAGS” rather than note “FILES” (which would allow me to assign a note to MANY things (topics, hyperlinked passages, hyperlinked library books, etc)
• But here’s an important part of it: It may also be assigned to NOTHING! I might just want to make a note next to a passage and not think about it…it might just sit there unassigned, and that would be fine… (just like a note in my paper Bible :)
• Central note manager (allows me to summarize, track, filter and find all of my notes)
• Think in terms of providing a system which would help someone write their own Bible commentary :)If I could give all my votes to this 1 thing, I would!
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Ed Stone commented
A way to decrease the steps to highlight on the mobile apps. Right now you have to select the text, tap highlight, and then choose style and/or tap done. It would be great if somehow you could have a 'use default highlight option' that allows you to select text and highlight automatically using either a default highlight or last used highlight.
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Bob Lozano commented
Also please make it possible for the notes taken on all platforms - I mostly use a mac and an ipad - to be actually interchangeable. Right now they are very different, making the synchronized amalgamation of notes from multiple platforms a mess. Glad that it is now possible to synchronize, making the notes interchangeable is a minimal next step.
Thank you.
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Michael Perry commented
I need the Logos 4 notes to be re-instated to standard of Libronix, namely the INDEX OF HEADINGS in a column, like book resources.
Why is Logos 4 inferior to Libronix? Libronix notes are POWERFUL resources, because they can be quickly continually edited.
Personal Book Resources are fabulous in their own right, t but cannot be instantly quickly edited like Note Files. Large Logos 4 Note files are unwieldly and unmanageable for someone working quickly. I have not used Logos much for a few years, in the meantime I have bought $1000s of Logos resources on the pre-pub program. Now I find my study system of putting EVERYTHING into Libronix struggles because Logos 4 note files have regressed! Please update the Note Files ASAP with the index of column headings
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Thomas A Jenkins commented
I would like when I print my highlight would include the reference beside it. For example when I highlight/note it displays:
MHT God gave the prophet Zechariah
Would like to see inline reference:
MHT God gave the prophet Zechariah. (p. ???)
KJV Jesus wept. (Jn. 11:35)Also option for footnotes rather than MHT at the beginning, same with Bible references.
It is possible I have not played with it enough to know all the ins and outs but I surfed through the options that make sense to me.
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Michael Rogers commented
Agree with first two items in previous post.
My priorities:
1. Hyperlink Bible references (Mac)
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Ricky Ray commented
My priorities:
1. Hyperlink Bible references (Mac)
2. Total parity for Mac
3. Speed
4. Note sharing
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G commented
Please put style names in title section of Palette note files. then we can sort and group markup by title plus go to specific markups in various resources.
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David Duckitt commented
From the list, I'd particularly like to see greater formatting (e,g, tables) and the ability to create template notes. The speed issue is also of concern as my notes files grow. Thanks for a great program though - it has revitalised my study.
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Mark commented
Link to Evernote please
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John Duffy commented
Bob, if necessary, click on the note icon twice and it will take you to the note. It often doesn't do so if you only click on it once, in my experience.
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bob commented
I will keep using the PC version through Fusion, not being able to go to the note by clicking on the note icon makes adding and editing notes a nightmare with many notes!
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Eric commented
I second anything about "Evernote-ifying" Logos. As an Evernote power user, I can attest to its ability to quickly and easily compile and sort through massive amounts of information. Either implementing Evernote-like feastures, or, better yet, full Evernote integration would be amazing. Note that some other iOS Bible apps already have full Evernote integration. Logos is still superior to these apps overall due to desktop capabilities and a much better library, but Logos is trailing in the mobile arms race of personal content management. Logos Team, please take a good, hard look at Evernote, and thanks for all the hard work you are doing.
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Nathan Parker commented
Taking a page from Evernote would be nice. I know Bob doesn't like notes, but something similar to Evernote, just "Logosified", would be nice.
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ondroad commented
Been long waiting for the notes feature to be at least as good as it was under libronix but expecting it to be better.
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Bob commented
Notes is so slow when you have literally thousands of them as I have. I cannot believe that it has been left in the bad state that it is in without serious work to speed it up. It is a very important part of the software but it is just left to run slowly. it literally takes 3 minutes to load up Logos 4 because of the slowness of Notes. Please, someone at Logos, take this seriously.
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Bob commented
Notes is so slow when you have literally thousands of them as I have. I cannot believe that it has been left in the bad state that it is in without serious work to speed it up. It is a very important part of the software but it is just left to run slowly. it literally takes 3 minutes to load up Logos 4 because of the slowness of Notes. Please, someone at Logos, take this seriously.
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pbassham commented
This is really the only way that I can feel at home. Bc what I think about the Bible is way more important than what everyone else thinks.
not really, but I need a place to keep track of everything that I have processed better than what is there now.
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John Duffy commented
Frank, I think all of it is still needed. PBB and Notes fulfill very different functions. While some users may convert mature Note files that will not be changed into PPBs, I expect that for most people Notes are most often 'work in progress' files that need these features requested above. Also, you cannot see references to Bible verses (etc) if they are in a PBB in the same way that you can with icons beside the verses in Notes.