Function 2: Gestures

This is a somewhat new age feature, I think it would work best if you have a touch screen computer (or if it works or will at sometime work with smart-phones) basically it worked by making motions with your mouse while holding down the right button. Now there are several motions which you can make, a full list is in the help files of Logos. I have done some experimenting with a few. Such as the right and left, up and down motions. I found the motions for me to be somewhat difficult to maneuver, however I am using a computer with a mouse on a TV tray in my living room. Even with all these things stacked against me, I did get it to work, which was fun. I think that if I spent more time working with these I could get all of them to work and minimize my time with scrolling and focus on more of what I want to do instead and the like with the mouse. However, I already do not use and move things as much as perhaps others would and so this function while neat, seems a little unneeded to me. However I do know that touch screens and the like are growing in popularity, and could honestly say that if I had a touch screen window, that this feature would be one of the highlights of Logos. I do not think that these capabilities are on the smart-phone portions of Logos yet, they may be integrated into the phone already so they would be unnecessary. So basically, it is fun to look at these and if you would benefit from them, definitely something to spend time with learning, but for me it is not very useful at this time.

Function 1: Command Box

Unlike BibleWorks, the help files in Logos are not separated and indexed in the same manner, although I am sure for many this is actually more beneficial, I find it harder to maneuver. The first true function which they cover is the command box. This is not the box that appears with the passage guide, but it is the one that appears at the very top of your screen on the toolbar. It is most useful when you are looking for something very specific. This is not really to be used when looking for a passage.
When you type into this box, it will do a search of all your book and display to you the result. If you type in a passage it will not give you a passage guide instead it will find every time and every book that references those particular verses. This at times can be helpful but I find the guides to be much more helpful in these cases.
What is helpful about this command box is some of the things that you can do with it. If you look in the help file there is a list of commands that you can type in and get certain results. Some of my favorites include the Biblical Places and Biblical people. However you can ask it to go to, create, look up and even load new when you create something and need it to load into your program (hopefully we will get to this later).