Clippings
Updated for Logos 10
Page Contents
What are Clipping documents?
- Clipping documents are as they suggest, a document where you add one or more clippings.
- Think of the document as a collection of Index cards with notes.
- A Clipping doc is useful to collect information from your different resources relating to a specific topic or idea.

- Front side of clipping/card
- Link to resource where this came from.
- Title for this clipping (editable). Logos will automatically add the head word or pericope from resource.
- Date that the clipping was added.
- Text that was copied from the resource. (editable)
- Tag which you can add for finding in this Clipping document.
- Note’s area where you can add a note about this clipping.
- Link to flip the clipping/card over to back.

- Back side of clipping/card
- Citation style for this clipping. (changeable)
- Bibliography info.
- Link to copy bibliography info to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere.
- Link to flip the clipping/card over to front.
- You can add text as a clipping, but you cannot add pictures or images to your clipping.
- Unlike Notes, clippings do not leave markers in your resource.
- You can add a note to each clipping within your document.
- You can tag each clipping to help you find it.
- Bibliography information is attached when add a clipping into the document.
- A date is stamped on each clipping when it is added.
Creating a new Clippings Document
- Open the Documents menu.
- In the drop down menu at the top click on Clippings to create a new Clippings document.
- Start off by clicking on the Title to give it a name.
Opening an existing Clippings document
- Open the Documents menu.
- In the Find box type clip to have Logos sort your documents by Clippings.
- Locate your Clippings document and click on it.
Adding clippings to your Clipping document
- You can add text based info from any of your resources to a Clipping document.
- You cannot add pictures or images to your Clipping document.
- You will need your Clipping document open before you can add a clipping to it.
- You will need to select the text in your resource by dragging your mouse over the text with the left button pressed.
- Once that you have your text selected, then you can add your text to your clipping.
- If you have never created a clippings document, then you can click Add a Clipping in the right click menu.
Remember to name it so that you can find it later.
- Clippings documents will be listed when they are open in your layout. Otherwise the last ones used will be listed.
- Make sure your Clipping document is open.
- Select the text in a resource that you want to add to your clipping.
- Right click on the selected text.
- In the Context menu, click Selection on one side.
- On the other side, click your document under Add a clipping.
- Logos adds the selected text to your clippings document.

- Make sure your clippings document is open.
- Select the text in a resource that you want to add to your clipping.
- In the Clipping document, click on the Add Clipping button.
- Logos will add the selected text to your clippings document.
Dragging from resource into Clippings doc
- You can drag selected text from an open resource into your Clippings document to add a clipping.
- Make sure that you have your clippings document open.
- In the resource, select the text that you want to add as a clipping.
- Drag the selected text into your clippings document.
How to rearrange your clippings

- Grab a clipping in your document.
- Drag it to a new location.
How to delete a Clipping
- This deletes a single clipping within your document.

- Hover your mouse over the top of a clipping.
- Click on the red X to delete it.
- If you accidentally delete a clipping, you can restore it by pressing Ctrl Z on your keyboard. But you must do this immediately after deleting the clipping before performing any other operation.
How to delete a Clippings document
- Click on Documents in the top menu.
- In the Find box, type clip which will sort to show Clipping documents.
- Right click on the Clipping document that you want to delete.
- A pop-up will appear, click on Delete to delete your document.
How to find a clipping in your Clippings document
- You can add one or more tags to a clipping, and they can be used to help you locate that clipping in a document with many clippings.
Setting a tag in a clipping

- Click on the add tag in a clipping.
- Type in a name which you want to tag this clipping with.
- It should be as unique as possible to aid searching.
- Repeat for any other tags you want.
Using Find to locate a clipping
- You can use the Find feature to locate a clipping via its tags, or find words or phrases that appear in a clipping.
- Find will show one or more clippings with content that matches what you typed in the Find box.
- Open the panel menu of your document.
- Click on Find (in this panel).
- or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F

- In the Find box, type your tag value or a word/phrase.
- Logos will show the clipping(s) that contain this tag/word/phrase.
- To close the Find box, click on the X at the right side of its bar.
Using Search to locate a clipping
- You must use a document Search to locate text or tags in a clipping.
- Search in Basic > Your Documents or Docs

- In order to find tags:-
- Open the Search tool and select Your Documents or Docs .

- In the Search box, type mytag: followed by your tag value, and then hit the Enter key.
e.g. mytag:introduction.
- The results link to the Title of your clipping.
Viewing a clipping’s Bibliography

- Hover your mouse over a clipping.
- Notice in the lower right corner of the clipping that an arrow appears.
Click this arrow to view the bibliography info.

- The clipping will turn over to show you the bibliography info on that clipping.
- This is the citation style for the bibliography.
If you click on the arrow on the right you can change the citation style.
- Notice the Copy link. When you click on it, it will copy the bibliography info to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere.
- Click on the arrow in the lower right corner of the clipping to flip back to the clipping info thus hiding the bibliography info.
Adding a Note to a clipping
- You can add Notes to a clippings which can be useful when you want to describe your thoughts about that clipping.

- Click on the Notes button at the bottom of a clipping.

- Then add your text in the note area.
Adding / Changing text in a clipping
- You can modify or add text within your clipping and its Notes.
- Click in your clipping or its Notes to enter Edit mode.
- You can use the standard text editing controls in the toolbar.
- You should limit changes to the clipping as that is quoted text
e.g. use ellipsis... to indicate omitted text.
Keeping track of your Clippings documents
- As you make more Clippings documents you might find it difficult to keep track or locate them.
- A good way to keep track of them is to use Favorites.