Check out our next blog, How to Use Tags – Digital Note-Taking in Gospel Library & on LDS.org. The library includes the scriptures, general conference addresses. As soon as the installer completely finish downloading, open it to get started with the installation process.
Below you can see what that looks like.Īnd there you are! How to make lovely notes associated with text in Gospel Library or lds.org. Gospel Library is the gospel study app of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How to Install Gospel Library for PC: Download BlueStacks for PC using download button presented in this web page. Any highlights and notes you make in Gospel Library will nearly instantly become available on lds.org and vise versa. A box will appear near your highlight and if you click the words “Add Note/Tag” a text editor will open up on your screen for you to make notes in. Then, simply use your cursor to highlight the text you want to reference in your note. Making a note connected to a text through lds.org is a similar process. First, you must be logged into lds.org (using the same credentials you would use to access the family history sites). Tapping that little note icon will display the note you just made. You will see that your selected text is highlighted and a note icon is floating to the right of it. When your note is finished, tap the check-mark in the upper left-hand corner. You will notice a box appears with the option “Note.” Tap on “Note” or it’s corresponding icon and you will be able to type and title a note. Then drag the little cursors to the beginning and ending of the phrase you want highlighted. You can make a note connected to a text in Gospel Library by resting your finger on the text until little colored cursors appear to the left and right of the word your finger rests on. I highlighted the phrase, tagged it, wrote in the notes how frequently that phrase had been repeated, and then saved the note to my personal study journal. In my study this morning I noticed that a certain phrase had begun cropping up right and left. While the notes sections of Gospel Library and lds.org can be used to save journal entries and other loose notes, the same tools can be used to save notes that are attached to scripture verses or quotes. Today we’re discussing the same functionality, but used in a different way. This is stepping us back over ten years, which is how long it’s been since I used the Topical Guide to find a scripture.In a previous post (called Digital Journaling) we discussed how to use the Church apps to journal. Now search only shows results for hymns, topical guide, and bible dictionary, or it shows results for articles not downloaded yet, but it shows NO RESULTS for scriptures. I have come to rely on the power of this app to find all references to a keyword in every downloaded document on my device. Search has either been severely hampered, or it’s broken. I can’t be the only person confused by this change. I find this change in search behavior more complicated and less intuitive than before because the new contextual shortcuts appear to be search results.
The release notes don’t even address this change in behavior. Changing app behavior like this is incredibly confusing. This pop up info is what has been introduced with this version. However, if you tap on return, the true search completes. When you type a search keyword, the results that pop up are as I stated: hymns, topical guide, and dictionary. I’ll leave my original review as it stands. That or let those who want revert back to the old way or at least have that option. I look forward to an improvement in the next version. All I know is that my study was more rewarding and spiritually focused in the last version. Why can’t we have the best of all worlds, more info, pleasing aesthetics, pleasing font and for heavens sake some margins. It makes me want to read only the footnotes.
The irony is when you pull up the footnotes they are in the old font and size while the main text is in the new aesthetically challenged font. You have to repeat the process every time you advance a chapter. Yes you can manually change the size of the text in tools but that only works for that one chapter. Yes it provides more content on one page but that content is too small and difficult to use. Now the text is small and harsh and goes to the far extreme of both sides of the screen (where are the margins?). It was pleasing to the eyes and made for not only a great tool but also a pleasing experience.
The last font, spacing and layout was very well done from an aesthetic point of view. The thing I liked best about using this app to study over my hard copy of the scriptures was the experience I had when scrolling through the text.