Learning Logos: Quickly See Relationships between OT and NT Passages

| Mon, August 19, 2019 | Training 5

 

As I train Logos users I often say, There are numerous ways within the software to accomplish a given task.  Explore them all, and use the one that works best for you. [Read more…]

Learning Logos: Send a Search to an Inline Search

| Mon, August 12, 2019 | Training 1

During a recent Camp Logos, I was showing both the power and simplicity of Logos 8 Bible Search templates. Once results were generated, one of the students asked: [Read more…]

Learning Logos: Detailed Searches Made Easy

| Mon, August 5, 2019 | Training 1

If you’ve been to Camp Logos before, you may recall we discussed a powerful search query that located synonyms occurring close to one another. For example, imagine we want to find where our resources mention the topic, the purpose of suffering. Obviously a word search for suffer is too broad and a phrase search for “purpose of suffering” is too narrow. [Read more…]

Learning Logos: How to Use Keystroke to Make Your Library Tab ‘Active’

| Mon, July 29, 2019 | Training

For years we’ve been able to quickly open the Library in its own floating window with a simple keystroke:

  • PC: Ctrl + L
  • Mac: Cmd + L

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Learning Logos: Double and Triple-Click Shortcut Action

| Mon, July 22, 2019 | Logos 8, Training

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Screen-Shot-2019-07-18-at-10.02.05-AM.pngThe recently released Logos 8.6 contains some exciting new time-saving shortcuts: double and triple click action. For years we’ve been able to double click a word in a resource to execute a Look Up Search, but in 8.6, the double click options have expanded and triple click has been added! [Read more…]

Learning Logos: How to Display All Search Results on the Timeline

| Mon, July 15, 2019 | Training

A fellow Logos user contacted me with a question I wanted to pass along to you:

I’m doing a search for Moses on the Timeline which says I have 29 hits. But I can’t see them. I have to move through the Timeline to find them and I’m not sure I’m viewing them all. Surely there’s something I’m not doing. Help! [Read more…]

Learning Logos: How to Sort Notes by Bible Reference

| Mon, July 8, 2019 | Logos 8, Training

A Logos user sent in this question to us:

Under the new Logos 8, I can’t find how to scroll through notes in biblical order. My notes are tied to verses and I used to be able to scroll from verse 1 to 2 to 3, etc. Now I have the verse I am working on but cannot scroll up or down to notes on the previous verse. Any help here? [Read more…]

Learning Logos: Share Documents with Faithlife Groups

| Mon, July 1, 2019 | Training

One of the most helpful tweaks in the recently released Logos 8.5 update is the ability to both share and download documents within Faithlife Groups. This blog focuses on sharing, and next week we’ll focus on downloading.

So let’s say you’re a member of a Faithlife Group and you want to share a Passage List with the members. You can now do that right from the Docs menu:

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Learning Logos: How to Download Documents from Faithlife Groups

| Mon, June 24, 2019 | Logos 8, Training

In a recent blog, I discussed sharing documents with our Faithlife Groups. Now we turn our attention to downloading documents fellow group members have made available to us.

Let’s imagine a member of one your Faithlife Groups shared a Sermon document that you want to download. Thanks to the recently released Logos 8.5 you can now do that right from the Docs menu: [Read more…]

Learning Logos: How to Add Notes to Guide Sections

| Mon, June 17, 2019 | Articles, Training

I hope you’re enjoying the new Logos 8 Notes tool as much as I am. I know it was a big transition from 7 to 8 Notes, but if you’re not quite there yet, please keep going. The new Notes database really is remarkable. 

And it seems with each new update the power of Notes expands. The recently released 8.5 is no exception: we can now add Notes to Guide sections. [Read more…]