Organize Your Notes with Notebooks

As you study your way through a passage of Scripture, you may want to create a series of notes and highlights recording your observations, questions, and discoveries. Notebooks allow you to organize these notes and highlights into one place, even if your research spans dozens of different resources.

Note: It’s possible to have notes that are not connected to a notebook, just as it’s possible for notebooks to be empty.

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Create a Notebook

Add Notes to a Notebook

Edit a Notebook

Search Notebooks

Share a Notebook

 

Create a Notebook

Create a General Notebook

1. Open the Notes Tool by clicking Tools > Notes. (You can also open the Notes Tool from the Selection Menu or the Context Menu.)

2. Click the Sidebar icon  and select the Notebook icon .

3. Add a Notebook by clicking the Plus icon  and typing the name of your new Notebook. Press Enter when you are finished. Verbum adds your new Notebook to the list of available notebooks.

 

Create a Homily Notebook

You can add notes to a homily-specific notebook right from the Homily Builder. These can be notes to yourself regarding what worked and what didn’t, or they can be the place you store observations and discoveries as you prepare your homilies. A homily notebook is a regular notebook, but linked to a particular homily.

To start a new homily notebook:

1. Open a homily in the Homily Builder.
2. Expand the Information pane by clicking the information icon .
3. Click the Notebooks icon .
4. Click New note.

That’s it! Your new note is automatically saved in a new notebook with the same name as your homily title. 

Note: If you already have a notebook created that you'd like to link to a homily, click the Notebook Dropdown next to the New note button and choose your notebook from the menu. 

Note: When you’re working on a homily document, you can also fill your homily with existing notes from any notebook. For help adding existing notes to a homily document, see the support article on the Homily Builder.

Add Notes to a Notebook

You can add any existing note to a Notebook at any time, and you can even re-assign notes to a different notebook.

 

Add a New Note to a Notebook

1. Create a new note from the Selection Menu or Context Menu or by opening the Notes Tool from the Tools Menu.
2. Expand the Set Notebook menu and select a notebook.
   

   

 

Add an Existing Note to a Notebook

1. Click the note you want to add to a Notebook. Add multiple notes by holding Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (macOS) and clicking each note you want to add. Select a series of notes by clicking the first note, holding Shift, and clicking the last note in the series. Selecting multiple notes activates a menu to apply changes to all the selected notes.
2. Expand the Set Notebook menu and select a notebook.
3. Click Apply changes to save your changes.
   

   

Note: A note can only be in one Notebook at a time. If a note fits in multiple locations in your system, create additional tags for the note. 

Assign a Note to a Different Notebook

You can re-assign a note by selecting the note(s) and selecting a different notebook from the dropdown menu.

 

Edit a Notebook

You can rename, share, or delete a notebook easily from the Notes Tool. 

1. Select the Notebook you want to edit.
2. Click the More Actions Menu icon and choose Delete or Rename from the available options. Keep in mine that if you delete a notebook, you also delete all the notes in that notebook.
3. See this section for more information on sharing your notebook. 

 

You can restore a deleted notebook and the deleted notes by clicking Trash at the bottom of the Notebooks tab. This opens a list of deleted Notes and Notebooks. Select the notebook you'd like to restore, click Undelete, and click Done.

 

Search Notebooks

As you create notebooks during your study, you may find it easier to use the search field within the Notebooks pane to find the one you’re looking for.

To find a specific notebook:

1. In the Notes Tool, click the Sidebar icon .
2. Click the Notebooks icon 
3. Click the Search icon  to the right of Notebooks
4. Begin typing the notebook’s title in the search box and click the notebook when it appears.

 

You can also browse your notebooks from the Filters tab. Scroll down the list of filters until you reach Notebooks.

 

Share a Notebook

Whether you’ve finished your study and want to share your discoveries with others, or you want to collaborate with others in your study, you can quickly and easily share notebooks with the entire community of Verbum users or with a specific Faithlife group.

To share a notebook, click the Share button on the toolbar, and then choose whether to make your notebook public or to share it with a specific Faithlife group.

Note: You can also select a notebook’s More Actions icon and choose Share.

Make a Notebook Public

1. Toggle Make document public to Yes (switching the toggle back to No unshares your notebook)
2. If you'd like to send a link to the notebook to specific people, click Copy to copy a shareable link.
3. Click Done.

 

Share a Notebook with a Group

1. Select the Group tab.
2. Select a group from the dropdown menu. If you don’t already have a group set up, create a new Faithlife group. 
3. To enable collaboration in the notebook by anyone in your group, check Collaborate (everyone can edit).

Users in the group to which you’ve shared the notebook can find it by opening the Documents Menu and selecting the Groups tab.

 

Sharing a Notebook from the Web

To share a notebook from the web:

1. Open Logos Documents in your preferred web browser.
2. Hover over the notebook you wish to share to reveal the Actions button.
3. Click Actions and choose from the available sharing options:
   • Publish allows groups to open a copy of this document
   • Collaborate allows an entire group to own and edit the document along with you.
4. Choose which groups to share your document with, then click Publish or Collaborate depending on which sharing options you’ve selected.

 

Additional Resources

Learn more about the Notes Tool.

Open the Notes Tool in Verbum