How To Customize Your Own Personally Created Study Bible . . .

What is your favorite Study Bible? ESV? NIV? NKJV?
Now, what are your favorite commentaries? Word? New American? New International Greek Testament? Some other? Like most of us, I'll bet all of your favorite comments are in different commentaries that make up some combination of each one, right?
What if you could take all the best notes from a combination of each commentary for a compact, personally created note on every Scripture? Logos empowers you to do this.
Having your own Digital Library not only opens the doors to reading your commentaries while you read your Bible (in any version too) but did you know you can actually create YOUR OWN commentary footnotes right in the Bible version? And with the click of a button, you also can control whether or not they appear or not appear. Sound too good? Let's go through it.

First, you just open your favorite Bible version (whether Greek, ESV, NIV, NRSV, or whatever you like). As you well know now, it will open in a window of its own, you'll see the version at the top, with the reference of where you are in it. Lets say we opened it to Phil 2:5--"have this mind in you that was also in Christ Jesus." (ASV).

How many different ways can we dig the treasures out of this passage? How many can you think of? We could start by naming off all the different types of commentaries, couldn't we? Socio-rhetorical, historical-critical, discourse analysis, socio-linguistic, we could consult grammars, lexicons on key words, syntactical analyses (with graph visualizations). There are just too many to count! Clearly we all have our favorites, and only certain types will help us on any given task, right? We certainly don't need all of them all at once.

HERE'S HOW-->
Now, open up a brand-new "Notes" document from the "File" menu above and here is where you begin to craft your own Study Bible right in you Logos System!! Click into the label and name this document "My Phillipians Study". Now Just right click the first word in the Scripture (Phil 2:5) and you'll see a menu pop up. It's this pop up menu that is the key to ALL your best work in Logos. All you have to do is select the top menu option called "reference" (note your choices: "headword, lemma, manuscript, selection, etc") and then choose the bottom action on that same menu called "add note to My Phillipians Study." What Logos does is attach whatever you put into the note file (whether copy-and-pasted from any resource, or hand typed) and allow you to see that note (for each Scripture) as you scroll through your Bible (and in any other resource that Scripture appears, e.g. lexicons, etc.)  You could type anything, you could copy and paste a key commentary section on that passage or, if you want, you could have different notes from different commentaries attached to that same Scripture--each one color coded (just choose the color you want from the menu of options on the yellow square)! You even have the option to hide any one of them while you read through. (at the top of the resource in the tri-circle symbol, "visual filers" menu)
That's pretty powerful stuff.  You like socio-rhetorical commentaries? attach those--color them blue. (or whatever color you want) Maybe you like ICC's commentary material--attach that and color them red. If you want, you could copy and paste out of various commentaries/grammars/resources and combine it into one solid commentary of your own!! Color that green, if you want. Maybe you have some material not in your Logos that would make a great addition (and you have sent it to Logos already using suggest@logos.com see post below) but since it's not in your library you want it included but don't have the resource--well, then you can add that in as well, hand type it, name that particular note with the bibliographic data and color that blue! All the notes files can be stored in your "Favorites" menu (we'll teach that later) for later changes if needed.

The possiblities are endless, and you have the control at your fingertips.