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[michaelwrhodes@icloud.com]

I am beginning the process of migrating my materials from an old laptop to a new one today. I have my important work backed up two or three ways in the cloud, but there is no organization to my materials. Can any of you recommend a filing system or software (within e-sword would be ideal) that would allow me to keep track of my materials?

Thanks -- Mike Rhodes

[APsit190]

I am beginning the process of migrating my materials from an old laptop to a new one today. I have my important work backed up two or three ways in the cloud, but there is no organization to my materials. Can any of you recommend a filing system or software (within e-sword would be ideal) that would allow me to keep track of my materials?

Thanks -- Mike Rhodes

 

Didn't they teach you how to do that Bible College or Seminary?

 

On a more serious note ... If you know anything about Databases, of how to create one, you could develop yourself a library of your sermons, or even purchase a ready made one in where you could categorize all you work.

 

There also are a couple of tools available which you could use:

1. e-Sword Library Manager by Ray_B
2. e-Sword Resourcer by Fred Wasti.

There are a couple of other tools which are available here, but from my perspective the above two I mentioned are the best. As to whether they will meet your requirements, you will have to be judge of that.

 

Blessings,

[DSaw]

I am beginning the process of migrating my materials from an old laptop to a new one today. I have my important work backed up two or three ways in the cloud, but there is no organization to my materials. Can any of you recommend a filing system or software (within e-sword would be ideal) that would allow me to keep track of my materials?

Thanks -- Mike Rhodes

 

within e-Sword the best would be a topic file you can add and edit within e-Sword 

 

what materials are you referring to sermons, studies, need more info to be more specific

 

DSaw

 

ps just read the title again sermons for sermons create a topic file it can be called anything (sermons.topx) then create a topic for each sermon with the sermon title as the topic e-Sword will automatically put them in alphabetical order

Edited by DSaw, 24 June 2016 - 06:13 PM.

[DoctorDaveT]

Michael,

 

The bad news here is that migrating your sermon notes to eSword is going to be cumbersome. The good news is that it can be done.

 

Now, not knowing how long you've been sermonizing, nor how many older sermons you have to convert, you may "pick and choose" here how best to proceed. Here are some ideas you might be able to utilize.

 

TOPIC NOTES

 

The "Topic Notes" editor is more useful than first appears. At first glance, it looks like you'd have to actually file every individual topic in this one topic.topx file as an individual chapter. You could do that. Or - you can hold down the CTRL button while you right-click the mouse, and make a "new" *.topx module (and call it "grace" or "law" or "fool", etc.) or open another module you've already created. This would allow easy access to multiple topic modules. In fact, the "Reference Library" is, for the most part, a simple reader for *.topx modules.

 

STUDY NOTES

 

The "Study Notes" are simply your own comments on individual verses of the Bible. By the way, if you hold down the CTRL button while you right-click the mouse, you'll discover that you can create more than one set of comments (you could have a "MrRhodes" set of study notes, and a "MrsRhodes" set of study notes, etc.). If you'll think about the options there, it expands the potential you have for filing.

 

JOURNAL NOTES

 

This section of notes is the least useful for your purposes, but if you wanted to file anything by the date entered, this is the section of the notes that you would use. And again notice that you can open/create multiple different journal notes.

 

BRINGING IT TOGETHER

 

If I wanted to migrate all of my sermons/notes into eSword, I would divide them in my mind into two categories: expository studies, and topical studies. Then, I would copy/paste the expository studies into the appropriate study.notx file verses.

 

The topical notes will probably require a little more thinking. Do I want one massive topic file, or lots of smaller topic files? Once that is decided, it is simply a matter of copy/paste into the file(s) in question.

 

CONCLUSION

 

Your decisions here are probably party determined by the amount of material you already need to manage. I've been preaching for 25 years, so I think about this task and say "ugh." However, if you want to leave your notes as a legacy to anybody, this might be the cheapest way to do so. AND once it is done, adding your weekly notes will be simple - especially if moving forward you actually use eSword as your primary word processor for sermonization.

[michaelwrhodes@icloud.com]

Thanks to all for your replies. I really appreciate your help.

Mike