This article explains how prioritizing works and demonstrates how to set preferences for particular books.
Note: This feature is available to all users.
This article explains how prioritizing works and demonstrates how to set preferences for particular books.
Although your book prioritization will impact your experience on the desktop, web, and mobile versions of Logos, you can manage your book prioritization only in the Logos desktop application.
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How Prioritizing Books Works
Prioritizing books allows you to access your preferred books first in different areas of Logos (e.g. Top Bibles, Guides, pop-up menus within books, lookups, etc).
For example:
- You prefer a particular commentary series or volume and want to see it first when running the Passage Guide.
- You prefer a particular dictionary or lexicon and want Logos to open that book when you double-click a word.
- You want to set a Top Bible version.
- You want to edit the Bibles that appear in the Top Bibles search.
Types of resources you can prioritize
Logos prioritization is based on references (e.g., “John 3:23”) or indices (e.g., “Righteousness”) rather than page numbers. For this reason, prioritizing books works best with reference works like Bibles, dictionaries, and commentaries. It is not intended to work with books like systematic theologies.
Prioritization and Search Results
Prioritizing books does not affect search results in the Search tool since the tool sorts search results.
How to Prioritize a Book
Open the Prioritize Books panel.
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Open the Library
Note: You may find it easier to prioritize books by opening the library in a new tab or floating window. Open the Library in Logos
- Click the info button
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- Select the Prioritize Books icon
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Prioritize your books
To prioritize a book or series, add it to the Prioritize Books list. You can either drag books or series to the list or right-click and prioritize them.
- Series vs Book: Bolded titles mark prioritized series.
- Prioritized Order: The higher the book appears in the Prioritize Books list, the more Logos will prioritize it. Drag and drop to reorganize the list.
- Organization: For organizational purposes, it’s helpful to keep titles of the same type together in this list (e.g. Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, etc.).
Note: To select multiple books, hold Ctrl in Windows or Cmd in macOS and click the desired books. If a book is part of a series and you only want to add one volume, press and hold Ctrl (macOS and Windows) while you click and drag the book.
Remove Prioritized book
To remove a title from the list, right-click the title and select Remove from this list.
Advanced prioritization
Advanced prioritization allows you to decide when and how to apply book prioritization. You can limit the prioritization to a particular type of book, a range of biblical text, or by the book itself.
Applying advanced prioritization means restricting how often Logos prioritizes a book. For this reason, you want to place these books higher on your list. This means that Logos will check to see if the rules apply to open this book before it moves on to other priorities, which will have broader parameters.
To apply advanced prioritization:
- Right-click a book in the Prioritize Books panel and select the option Set prioritization limits (advanced).
- Three advanced options show ways to further prioritize this book:
- Use the dropdown menus to reveal options for prioritizing this book.
Remember: Because advanced prioritization is highly specific, such prioritizations should be higher in the list than more general ones of the same type.
Prioritizing by type
Setting advanced prioritization by type allows you to prefer a book for particular types of use.
Example: You may want to use a particular lexicon only when you click a Strong’s number. From the Type drop-down menu, select Greek Strong’s Number. Now, clicking a Greek Strong’s number in Logos opens the lexicon you prioritized. However, in all other situations, it uses the next prioritized lexicon.
Prioritizing by range
Setting advanced prioritization by range allows you to prefer a book for particular ranges of biblical text.
Example: You may prefer to use a particular commentary series for Paul’s letters. Rather than add and prioritize each commentary individually, you can set a priority for the series. In the type box, select Bible. This tells Logos what kind of search this applies to. In the range box, enter the range of Scripture you want to prioritize (e.g. Romans-Philemon). Enter the range of scripture you want to prioritize When you open a Passage Guide, Logos prioritizes this series for any passage in Paul’s letters but not for other passages.
Prioritizing by book
Setting advanced prioritization by book allows you to prefer a particular book for lookups within a specified book.
Example: You prefer to use a different lexicon when working with the Septuagint than when you are studying Greek New Testament texts. In the type box, select Greek. This tells Logos what kind of search this applies to. In the book box, enter the name of the book you wish to prioritize the lexicon for or scroll through the list to find the one you want. When you click a word in the specified book, Logos uses the prioritized lexicon. For all other books, the next prioritized lexicon is used.