As many of you well know, Logos has the ability to create within the software note files. Now, what is the advantage to a note file over a simple Word doc? Glad you asked--hyperlinked references make your personally created note file a part of your Digital Library intranet!
HYPERLINKED NOTE FILES!
Everything you note in your note file that quotes a resource in you personal Digital Library is hyperlinked to that resource in your library with an automatic footnote!! How amazing is that. That way, when you are finished, and you go back to look them over, any time you want to pop back to that original resource that you are quoting, you just need to click the link in your note file.
Check out these notes taken on Martin-Asensio's, Transitivity Based Foregrounding in the Book of Acts where every single box represents an expandable section of my personally created notes, and each blue-highlighted link is a hyperlink back to that specific section highlighted from the resource:
Transitivity Based
Foregrounding in Acts Resources
TBFAA:FGALP Matthieson
and Nesbitt TBFAA:FGALP any
comparison of the language TBFAA:FGALP Rhetorical
Criticism: The Case of Foregrounding TBFAA:FGALP George
Kennedy TBFAA:FGALP application
of argumentation, TBFAA:FGALP all
human communication is rhetorical TBFAA:FGALP it
is a … definition of them. TBFAA:FGALP Malinowski’s
work TBFAA:FGALP context
of situation TBFAA:FGALP variety
of language … use or function TBFAA:FGALP impossibility
of establishing … sense and reference TBFAA:FGALP relativization
of the linguist’s metalanguage. TBFAA:FGALP ‘macro-functions’:
the ideational, … and the textual. TBFAA:FGALP its
lexicogrammatical features TBFAA:FGALP The
elements of theme TBFAA:FGALP aspect
is a common means of foregrounding in the epistolary literature of the New
Testament TBFAA:FGALP central or invariant meaning of aspect TBFAA:FGALP an author’s overall rhetorical/literary
agenda TBFAA:FGALP functional correspondence between the
writings of St Paul and the rhetorical manuals of Graeco-Roman antiquity TBFAA:FGALP exciting area of linguistic reasearch TBFAA:FGALP key contributions to foregrounding theory TBFAA:FGALP every item of lexico-grammar TBFAA:FGALP ‘markedness’ TBFAA:FGALP no reference to causation TBFAA:FGALP Nida’s is a socio-semiotic approach TBFAA:FGALP Functional Descriptions: Theory in Practice TBFAA:FGALP John C. Lentz’s 1993 monograph TBFAA:FGALP Bibliography JETS 30 study of the larger units PERMANENT EASY ACCESS . . .
Now, if that wasn't enough, the quickest way to make sure you have permanent easy access to the note file in you system is through the "Favorites" menu (an option under your "Tools" menu in the top). Once you open your favorites menu, you will see a blank area above many different "book mark" sections below. That blank area allows you to create as many "new folders" as you like, and as deep as you want to set each of them. It is recommended that you start out creating one "new folder" for every letter of the alphabet and then set other "new folders" within each letter. For instance, if you are copying and pasting the bibliography lists from your commentaries and dictionaries (a topic for later discussion), then you can store these lists in your "Bibliographies" folder, under the letter "B". All your "Notes" files, can be saved in the "N" folder, and within that notes folder, you can have various topics as well. That way, every doc you save can be directly accessed through the favorites menu anytime you open your software or need to see it again--you literally are creating your own, personalized databank of resources/research topics as you study more and create more note files!!
CREATE AND SHARE!
Now, I know what you're saying, crowd--"what good do they do me in Logos alone?" I hear you, and that is why Logos has created the ability to "export" your notes to any Microsoft application appropriate (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.). Now you can create, export, email, and share your notes amongst your other classmates!! Instantly!! Amazing.
MOTIVATED YET?
So, there you have it, Note Taking On Steroids! With your own personal Digital Resource intranet, the possibilities are endless!! And can I tell you a secret? . . . After you have your own little digital library of note files on various topics (or various notes on a single topic if you are digging into your research interest) Logos also has an application available to create from them your VERY OWN BOOK!!! This book will be searchable, hyperlinked, and listed in your system the same way every other book you own is!! (But that is a topic for another day) Check out Logos' free training to make your very own book . . .
Overview of Basic Personal Books
Keep reading out there!! Keep studying, keep note taking!
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