Bookmarks & Collections
Bookmarks save verses you want to come back to. Collections organize those bookmarks into folders. Together they're how a body of verses accumulates over time without turning into a list you can't navigate.
Bookmarking a verse
- Select a verse and press Ctrl+D, or
- Right-click the verse and choose Bookmark.
Either way it goes into your default collection. Bookmarked verses show a bookmark icon in the Bible pane.
Collections
Open the Bookmarks tab in the study pane to see your collections as a tree.
- Create collections and sub-collections to organize however suits you — by topic, by sermon series, by book you're working through, by anything.
- Drag bookmarks between collections to reorganize.
- Each collection shows how many items it holds.
- You can add a whole passage — a verse range — to a collection, not just single verses. Useful when the unit you care about is an argument or a narrative rather than one line.
The sidebar also has a Bookmarks entry for quick access without changing what's in the study pane.
Ways people use collections
There's no prescribed scheme, but some patterns work well:
- A collection per study. Working through a book or a doctrine, gather everything relevant as you go. When you come to write or teach, the collection is your raw material.
- A collection per sermon or lesson. Passages for one talk, kept together and thrown away afterwards, or kept as a record of what you've taught.
- Standing collections. Verses for comfort, for evangelism, for particular pastoral situations — the ones you want to find fast when someone needs them.
- A reading queue. Passages you've hit a reference to and want to come back to properly.
Bookmarks, notes, and highlights
These three overlap, and it helps to be clear about what each is for:
| Tool | Use it when |
|---|---|
| Highlight | You want the verse marked in place, visible whenever you read that chapter |
| Bookmark | You want to find the verse again from somewhere else |
| Note | You have something to say about the verse |
They compose freely — a verse can be highlighted, bookmarked, and annotated at once.
Backing them up
Bookmarks and collections are part of your user data, included in File → Export My Notes. See Backup & Restore.