Morris ProctorIf you work in the original languages of Hebrew and Greek then you may very well appreciate the NEW keyboard selector added to the Search panel in the recent Logos 8.8 update. Check this out: Click the Search icon in...
I want to make you aware of a small, but very important tweak made to Logos Bible Software: Study Bible has been added as a Type in the Library. Let’s take a look: Click the Library icon in the upper left of the program Click the Sidebar icon in the...
Thinking Look up had been removed from the redesigned 8.7 Context menu, a fellow Logos user emailed me asking, What’s up with Look up? Actually Look up is still on the right-click menu, and it’s better than ever! Let me show you: Open an interlinear...
The recent Logos 8.7 update contained a small, but potentially important tweak to the software that I want to make sure you’re aware of. In a Basic or Bible Search, we can now enable match case and match all word forms at the same time! For example...
A small, but very helpful change appeared in the recent Logos 8.7 update: we can now drag and drop shortcut menu items to our desired order! Try this: Choose the Guides or Tools menu (A) Click and hold one of the shortcut icons at the top of the...
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...
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...
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...
Our Logos Bible Software continues to expand and improve. Often it’s a small improvement that creates a big impact. Case in point is a recent 8.5 tweak: Notebooks and Collections were added as Filters on the Docs menu. Take a look at this: Choose...
If we ask 10 Logos users, “What’s the most significant addition to Logos 8?” half will probably say the new Notes tool, and the other half, Workflows. Logos workflows are literally step-by-step suggested methodologies for biblical...
A popular way of studying the Bible is through cross-references. Perhaps you enjoy reading a passage and then tracking down verses somehow related to your passage. If so, this blog is for you! I want to show you a little trick that will produce...
The recently released Logos 8.4 contains numerous tweaks providing enhancements designed hopefully to make our Bible study a little more powerful or enjoyable. One such change is: with the simple addition of the word “study” in the Go box we can...
If you’re a preacher, teacher, or small group leader, there’s a good chance this scenario has happened to you: You’re reading in a commentary, study guide, book of outlines, or journal where you come across a list of Scripture verses the author...
In response to a recent blog about Highlighting, a fellow Logos user posted this question: Is there a way search just for a particular color of highlight, like if you use different colors for each topic or subject in a book? That would be so very...
Digital resources offer many advantages over their print counterparts— portability, accessibility, and exportability to name a few. Another rather obvious plus? Electronic resources use no paper! With print books, publishers have to concern...
I recently received this question from a fellow Logos user: How do you read just the passages in a book that you have highlighted? I like to review my highlights but cannot find that option in Logos 8. This is a great question. And once I point out...
PLEASE NOTE THIS VERY IMPORTANT EXPLANATION: Power Lookup is going to your preferred list of resources in the Library and displaying the versified resources (containing your passage) in the order you prioritized them. This means if you’ve...
Knowing the geographical context of a passage certainly aids in our understanding of that passage. To assist with the discovery of that context, Logos provides us with the Atlas loaded with dozens of biblical maps. There are numerous ways to access...
One of our best friends in Logos is the Factbook. With it, we can research people, places, things, events, and a lot more. Perhaps as we’re studying a passage we open the Factbook alongside our Bible and type subjects from the passage into the...
Of all of the new Logos 8 features, I’m continuing to get more questions about Notes than any other. Regardless of the specific question, the key to understanding Logos Notes is that it’s a single database rather than multiple files. Once that big...
As you well know, our Logos Bibles and books contain a lot of information. Fortunately, our software also comes with a powerful search engine allowing us to retrieve most any data we need. With the release of Logos 8, searching became easier with...
At the heart and core of Logos Bible Software reside the Bible Study Guides. Through their numerous sections, these personal research assistants provide a lot of “instant data” about passages, words, themes, and topics. Sometimes...
Questions regarding the new Logos 8 Notes tool continue to come in so I’ll use this weekly training blog to address some of them. Here’s a recent question: My Logos 7 Notes documents imported into Logos 8 as Notebooks. Is there a way to consolidate...
As I’ve talked to Christians throughout the years, I’ve often heard statements like: Theology is just for pastors. I’d like to study different doctrines in the Bible, but I don’t know where to start. Understanding doctrine is...
As you well know, words are the building blocks of Scripture. If we’re going to study or exegete a passage we have to examine words. Perhaps, in an ideal world, we would thoroughly explore every word in the text. If, however, we’re only...
As you begin working with Logos 8, you’ll discover many panels now contain a sidebar populated with filters or facets to help us locate pertinent information in that panel. Arguably the most helpful new sidebar is the one that resides in the...
The makers of our Logos Bible Software have labeled all sorts of information in the Bible. Each group of tags or labels is called a dataset. Recently, I’ve received several questions about explanations for specific datasets: What does this label...
Sometimes an easy-to-use, helpful feature gets overlooked. For example, here’s a non-Logos, simple trick I learned recently from my elderly mother. I was trying to tear a piece of aluminum foil, but the entire roll kept following out of the box...
A Logos user recently contacted me with the following scenario: I know the Logos developers have tagged the biblical text with all sorts of labels or datasets. Normally I right click on words and scroll through the menu to see these tags. Is there...
As you well know, within our Logos Bible Software we have scores of resources ready to yield valuable information related to the passage or subject we’re studying. Perhaps, however, you’re not aware that the makers of Logos have also curated online...