In Accordance 13, we’re taking highlighting to the next level with pen markup and whiteboard drawing. Markup such as you see above even stays where it should if you resize text or change column width! By the way, the release of Accordance 13 is close. If you’re still running v. 11 or earlier, upgrade NOW […]
Discover three methods to highlight important text in Accordance Mobile for iOS. Download Accordance Mobile to your iPhone or iPad from the App Store, or learn more details. Not an Accordance Mobile user yet? Explore the list of free modules available when you register!
Just released! Get or Update to Accordance Mobile 2.5 for iOS with Active Highlighting and Scrollable Text Selection! In response to user requests, highlighting texts has been drastically improved. Now you can tap the highlight icon and simply drag over the text to add highlighting. At the bottom of the screen? No problem–just keep dragging […]
My wife and I homeschool four of our five children. (At four, Jo Jo hasn’t begun formal schooling yet, although he seems to be learning more than all the rest of us combined.) To satisfy the older kids’ high school language requirement, I’ve been teaching the whole family Greek using Bill Mounce’s Basics of Biblical […]
The other day I showed how you can hide any highlighting you’ve done to avoid being distracted by it. Today I want to show you how to find any highlighted verses—even when you’ve chosen to hide the highlighting. To search for highlights, select Style from the Enter Command submenu of the Search command. Replace the […]
Have you ever highlighted extensively in a print Bible, then tried to re-read a passage you previously highlighted? I always found that once I had highlighted a passage, it became hard to see anything new in that passage. It was as though the highlighting permanently defined how I read that passage, and I began to […]
In yesterday’s post, I began to show how you can use verse highlighting to “tag” verses with specific categories, topics, etc. In that post, I showed how to create a new Highlight File and define the styles which represent your “tags.” Today, I want to show how to apply those styles to specific verses. Once […]
We got an interesting suggestion today on our User Forums. Someone asked for a way to “tag” verses with information. For example, he wrote, “I may want to add the tag ‘Joy’ to a verse that speaks ‘joy’ to me, but doesn’t have that word actually in the verse.” While Accordance does not currently offer […]
This week we’ve been discussing the interpretive value of looking for repeated words in a passage of Scripture, and I’ve been showing how to do this using Accordance’s highlighting tools and other shortcuts. Yesterday, I showed how, having noticed a repeated word, you can quickly search for other occurrences of that word and highlight the […]
This week we’ve been discussing how finding repeated words in a passage can make you aware of its major themes and motifs. On Monday, I showed how to use Accordance’s highlighting tool to highlight key words so you can begin to notice patterns. Yesterday we applied this method to 2 Samuel 11, highlighting every mention […]