Lesson 3: Organizing Your Workspace

Organizing your workspace is one of the most important steps you can take to study and explore the Bible more efficiently and effectively. The following videos will help you organize your workflow and enable you to use your digital library proficiently.

How to Create a Workspace

Depending on how you study, you may have certain books that you frequently use. With the workspace tool you can tell Logos which books to open when the program starts or create several workspaces for each step in your Bible study process.

• Assignment: Watch the video (5:47, 2.7MB).
• Exercise: Create a workspace with the home page on the left, your three favorite Bibles on the top right overlapping one another with their tabs showing, and your two favorite commentaries in the bottom right, overlapping one another, showing you their tabs.
  Hint: Save this workspace for the next exercise.

Linking Bibles with Commentaries

One of the benefits of a digital library is the ability to link a Bible to a commentary, saving you the time from having to flip from one page to another every time you change a passage. Additionally, with Logos Bible Software you can even switch whole books when jumping from one commentary to another.

• Assignment: Watch the video (3:08, 2.9MB).
• Exercise: Link all your Bibles and commentaries together.
  Hint: Choose link Set A using the chain icon.
• Assignment: Read the article Comments on Commentaries.

Linking Dictionaries

Just as we linked one Bible to another and one commentary to another, we can do the same for dictionaries.

• Assignment: Watch the video (3:08, 2.9MB).
• Exercise: Open Easton’s dictionary as well as Harper’s dictionary and link both of them together.
  Hint: Choose link Set B using the chain icon.