Note: This article discusses Smart Search functionality. For general information about searching on mobile, please see the article here.
For anyone who has ever wanted to get the power of a Logos search while using natural language – without learning additional search syntax – the AI-assisted Smart Search included with an early access to Logos Pro subscription might just be for you. It extracts highly-relevant information from your Logos resources and, as well as showing these, generates a synopsis from the most relevant results.
Just like on desktop and web, Smart Search is the default engine for All and for Books searches. In either search mode, if you enter standard syntax Logos will run a Precise search instead.
Note: Smart Search is available to users through AI credits.
When running either an All Search or a Books Search, you can also get an AI-generated summary of the search results.
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All Search
To run an All Search, open a Search Panel and select the All option:
Then simply enter a query and run the search. The first card in the results is a synopsis of the most relevant results which is followed by a set of individual results.
Note: All Search includes results even from books you don't own.
Synopsis of Results
This section provides a short paragraph containing a synopsis of the information found in the top five most relevant articles. Footnotes are provided to these books making it easy to open and examine the articles themselves.
The synopsis can present different views on a topic in a single, consolidated summary. This is particularly helpful when there are a range of perspectives on how to understand the topic or question you entered. It is similar to a search summary but draws together insights from multiple articles as opposed to just one.
Tap the More button on the left to expand the synopsis or tap the Copy button at the bottom right to copy the synopsis to your clipboard. Tap the link to one of the cited articles to open the book to that place.
Note: As the All Search includes results from books you don't own, some of the books used and cited in the synopsis may not be in your library. If you try to access those you will receive a message advising you of this.
If you don't see the synopsis, click the Show synopsis button.
Individual Results
The individual results returned are of three different types:
- Books for which you don't have a license (indicated by a padlock)
- Books you own
- Relevant Factbook articles
If you tap the padlock next to a search result in a book you don't own, you get a message confirming you don't have a licence for it. The search snippet might help indicate if you would find the book useful (but see also the section on summarizing search results below).
For results in books you own, you can tap the link at the top of the search result to open the book to the relevant article:
When Factbook cards are returned in search results, you can tap one of the linked entries to open the Factbook to that article:
Books Search
To run a Smart Books Search, select the Books Search option in a Search Panel and then select the Smart search engine.
In Smart Search mode, it operates exactly the same as the All Search but only returns results from books you own. As before, tap a link to open the relevant article:
Summarizing Search Results
In both search types, Smart Search provides the ability to summarize results. In All Search, this even works in books you don't own.
Tap a search result to expose the Summarize button, tap that button to generate a summary of the returned article.
In this case, this is an article in a book you don't own - the summary might help decide if it's a book you want to purchase.