My Logos Library, Visualized

Some computer nerd across the pond made a cool site that will show you your whole Logos library in visual format. Here’s mine.

Setting it up is a little involved, but it’s neato. You can even click on a cover and it will open up that book in your Logos library!

A separate page shows you more info about your library: which books you’ve hidden, which books are most popular, which are most highly rated.

Few people bother rating their Logos books, however, so ratings tend to appear artificially low, I think.

Neato Infographic on E-Mail Usage

I use Boomerang for Gmail and like it.

Check out their really great infographic.

How to Safely Back Up Your BibleWorks Notes in Seven Simple Steps

How do you back up your precious BibleWorks user notes?

1. Install the excellent, free online back-up service Dropbox (click on this link and you and I both get free space!).

2. Open your notes tab.

3. Click the “Choose Notes Directory” button (see image below).

4. Navigate to your Dropbox folder in the menu that pops up.

5. Click “Make New Folder,” and name it “BibleWorksNotes.”

6. Click “Okay” when BibleWorks asks you if it can shut down your existing note.

7. If you already have notes, move them all from where they were (probably in Program Files (x86)/BibleWorks 9/notes) into the new folder you created inside your Dropbox. (If you have no notes yet, you can skip this step.)

Another tip: Make sure that you know what kind of notes you’re making, chapter notes or verse notes. Check the Notes options in Tools > Options. Here’s what my options look like:

Facebook Psychoses

Some great quotes from an insightful and humorous New York Times article on Facebook and other social media:

How is it that activities we wouldn’t in a million years be roped into doing in real life—paging through an acquaintance’s baby album, suffering through a relative’s slide show from Turkey—become strangely alluring online?

….

“If the F.B.I. came and ransacked my computer they’d be like, ‘What is your obsession with this person from sixth grade? Why have you looked at her picture a million times?’”

….

A study published last month in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking found that the more time people spent on Facebook, the happier they perceived their friends to be and the sadder they felt as a consequence.

….

Alas, what strikes us as witty, original and winning often comes across to the rest of the world as sloppily confessional, self-promotional or trite.

Toggl Desktop

One of the problems with using any time-tracking software is that you actually have to tell it what you’re doing and when you start and stop. I mean, shouldn’t it just know?

Toggl Desktop has taken one step toward solving that problem for me: it lets me know if I’ve left my computer idle for an extended period of time and asks me if I want to drop that dead time from my tracking. Now, I could’ve been reading a book and just not touching the computer. But it’s still nice to have that reminder and that option. Helps me be more accurate.

As my time becomes more pressed, and running as I do a (very) small business that has to give accurate estimates on how much time something will take me, I like this feature of Toggl Desktop.

Thanks, Toggl. Thanks a lot!

Greenville-Area BibleWorks Seminar

I will be putting on an area-wide BibleWorks seminar at Morningside Baptist Church. There will be two sessions:

Beginner-Intermediate (Feb 11, 9:30 am–12:00 pm)

Gain a solid understanding of how to use BibleWorks in real-life exegesis and sermon prep. I assume you know nothing and then give you all the skills you need to use BibleWorks daily.

Advanced (Feb 18, 9:30 am–11 am) + Logos 4 Crash Course (11 am – 12 pm)

We’ll cover all the advanced features of BibleWorks, including the textual critical advancements in BW 9. Then for one hour I will give you tips on how to use Logos 4 and what to buy. (Those with BibleWorks 7 and 8 should do fine except for about half an hour of the advanced course.)

There will be a break in the middle of each session, and I hope to provide generous time for questions and personal attention after each session.

Free snacks may appear if my wife is so inclined and my children are good the day before. =)

Cost:

• STUDENTS: $10 each session ($15 to attend both)
• NON-STUDENTS: $20 each session ($30 to attend both)
• $5 if you want to attend only the Logos Crash Course

We should have space for walk-ins, but click below to reserve a spot. Those who sign up will receive a very small goody hardly worth their effort.