Thanks, Tim. Your suggestion would work as long as I didn't need to link to a dictionary or commentary reference. Perhaps there is some other application all together that I could cut and paste from e-Sword references into the hyperlink. The idea is that, when teaching, you sometimes use every reference and note and sometimes skip certain ones. So I would want to touch or click the ones I want to use at that moment while ignoring others.
I'm familiar with the problem, though from a different perspective.
For the past several years I have been teaching an adult Sunday School class (about a dozen people ranging from mid thirties to their eighties).
Most of the prepared lessons seemed a bit superficial, so I started writing my own. Scripture to be studied, about a dozen questions to get them thinking about what they are studying, and two pages of commentary (most of the answers to the questions are in the commentary). I have been posting the commentary portion of the lessons as my blog in case you would like to see the results.
Like you, I have to sift, digest and condense fairly massive amounts of commentary and data. Depending upon how the class develops some portions that got left out of the mix for one reason or another (mainly because I get them to read the commentary I have promised to limit it to two pages) needed to be recalled.
I paraphrase what I cannot remember verbatim, and have a standing agreement that I will provide the Book chapter and verse upon request no later than the next Sunday if I cannot remember it during the class. (generally I can at least remember the book at least).But part of my agreement with them is no notes (other than the commentary).
Tim
Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, (Jeremiah 9:23-24a)
"Defenders of the faith are inclined to be bitter until they learn to walk in the light of the Lord. When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible." --Oswald Chambers, in Biblical Psychology from The Quotable Oswald Chambers.