Logos is an amazing program and there seems to be a nexus with some of the tagging that results in a new tool. Take for instance the "Bible Browser." A lot of this tool is just helping with the searching already in place but a bit complicated. It's brilliant for new users and old users who just want to get to the data.

This brought me to the idea of a "Commentary Browser" Let me explain. I run a passage guide on Romans 8:17 (my focus is the suffering), there are "Cross References" that I see may be relevant. So I save them as a Passage List titled Suffering and then I run the search {PassageList Suffering}. This returned way to many hits to be usable. I could search a particular group like - commentaries.

I then search "trial* NEAR {PassageList Suffering}" ("WITHIN" only returns footnotes) this also returned too many hits but it is manageable. I can further narrow my search to collections. Even then I have to manually click on each one to see the contents.

A "Commentary Browser" could provide an interface to these searches and return the results in a continual scroll where you can scroll to the next result.

Simple search: So you could open up the browser and type in a verse reference and it could open up the top 5 +commentaries from your prioritization for you to scroll through (think of how we can open multiple references in the bible in continual scroll). You could search within these results. You could click on one to open up the commentary.

Topic/Subject search: You could type in "Righteousness" and it would take the cross references from a particular existing reference work or a Logos created one and return the top commentary results for those cross references in your commentary. So you may get results from Habakuk to Galatians from your commentaries. You could scroll through them reading the results. Or search within.....

Complex searches: You could type in "Righteousness" but have a drop down listing all the operators ("NEAR", "AND" etc) and a dialogue box to add your own input, say "works" and this would pull from your commentaries the appropriate results.

I am sure the people at Faithlife could imagine even better uses for their data, but this would be invaluable (I think) and a way to use the data that is already there. I don't think much new tagging would be needed.

I have a ton of commentaries that I don't regularly use but every once in a while I do because of the "Lemma in a passage" and it is helpful. This tool may help us to discover some "gems" that we may not know about.

In the very least it would help new users to do some of these searches