Enhance Your Reading Experience with the Notes and Formatting Tabs

Logos provides a range of ways to enhance your reading experience - displaying notes and highlights; reformatting the text in different ways; using visual filters to highlight words, phrases or topics; utilizing reading plans; and more. This article shows you the various options available and outlines the benefit they can bring.

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• Displaying Notes and Highlights
• Formatting the Text

Note: Many of the dropdown menus discussed in this article have a toggle to turn the feature on or off. You can also toggle these features by Shift-Clicking the menu header

Displaying Notes and Highlights

Many users create a large number of notes and highlights - to record ideas, to indicate passages of particular interest, etc. You can choose whether or not to display these from the Notes tab - using the Show notes and highlights dropdown menu.

Here you can:

1. Toggle off and on the display of notes and highlights in this book
2. Select which of your notebooks will be used to display this information - this provides the ability to focus on a subset of your notes and highlights when required
3. Open the Notes tool in a separate tab to continue working on your notes

 

Each note is indicated by an icon in the text - and you can hover your cursor over the icon to see the contents of the note.

 

Sometimes, it is helpful to display notes and highlights from other books within the book you are studying. This uses a Correspondence feature (and does require the books to either be original biblical language texts or to have a reverse interlinear as matching is done against original language words). This display is controlled in a similar way to "local notes" using the From other books with corresponding text section at the bottom of the Show notes and highlights dropdown menu.

 

If you hover your cursor over a highlight that came from another book, a popup will show you which book it came from.

 

Formatting the Text

The Formatting tab provides a range of options for formatting the text to meet your particular study or reading requirements, including:

1. Making use of Factbook tags in your book
2. Using a range of markers to show hidden data in the book
3. Emphasizing interesting portions of the text
4. Reformatting the text in a range of ways
5. Showing start / stop points in Reading Plans
6. Using Passage Lists as filters
7. Using Visual Filters to highlight words, morphological or other tagged aspects of the text

 

Using Factbook Tags

This uses blue underlines to show where words have been linked to Factbook entries. Click any link to open the Factbook to the relevant article.

 

Showing Markers

This menu provides a visual indication of where different things are present "underneath the text" such as:

1. Who is being spoken to - click these to open the Factbook to the article on that person
2. Who is speaking - click these to open the Factbook to the article on that person
3. Links to maps in the Atlas tool - click these to open the Atlas tool to that map
4. A range of media items in the Media tool - click these to see that piece of media in the Media tool
5. Verses that have Verse of the Day media associated with them - click these to see that piece of media

 

Other types of book may show other marker types such as:

1. Page numbers
2. Timeline events - you can click these to open the Advanced Timeline tool to that point

 

Emphasizing Portions of the Text

This menu enables you to emphasize certain portions of the text including:

1. Temporarily highlighting where the same words appear when you either hover over or click a word - with a range of matching criteria to choose from
2. Highlighting words in the text where lexicons are also open to the entry on that word
3. Showing "popular highlights" - where multiple people have highlighted the same portions of text. These highlights appear as grey lines under the text

4. Highlighting where search results in one book appear in the book you are studying
5. Selecting text in one book and for the corresponding text to be highlighted in you book you are studying

 

Lexicons have the ability to emphasize current references, highlighting where a current reference in a Bible appears in the article that is being studied.

 

Reformatting the Text

This menu enables a number of reformatting options:

1. Controlling how much additional information is given - as well as enabling showing each verse on a separate line (in the example below, verse numbers have been turned off)
2. Enabling the display of discourse markers (there are more further down the menu) - and the same facility is available for Hebrew
3. Enabling the display of propositional outlines in the text

 

Some lexicons support Outline formatting which significantly enhances the layout of information making them easier to read and study.

 

Showing Start and Stop Points in Reading Plans

This menu enables you to control whether or not start and stop points in reading plans are shown.

 

Using Passage Lists as Filters

This menu enables you to filter the text to just show passages contained in a Passage List you have selected. To restore the whole text, click the Remove filter button.

 

Using Visual Filters

This menu enables you to highlight different words or tagged data in the text - the example below shows references to God in blue text, to Jesus in green and to the Holy Spirit in orange.