Personal notes

There are 5 different ways you can add personal notes:
To add notes, you use the Edit notes dialog. See the Using the editor topic for details on how to add notes, verse links, formatting, etc.

You can categorize your notes and create a hierarchical structure of them by using categories.

All notes of the first 4 categories are displayed in the Personal notes window. Click the F12 to show/hide this window. To maximize/restore it press F8.

Notes window

At the bottom of the window, you can select the type of notes you want to see/edit: Verse, Subjects, Chapters, Books

Verse notes

These notes are linked to a specific verse. To add notes for a verse, first click on a Bible (or navigate) to the verse you want to add notes on. Then, from the notes window click on the Add notes link or press the appropriate icon on the toolbar (or press F2). Write your notes on the editor and press F2 again to save and close the editor.

To edit a note follow the same procedure.

To delete a note, press the icon with the red X on the toolbar. Be careful since you cannot undo this action (you will be asked to confirm it first).

To see all notes for which you have added notes either:
Note: whenever you navigate to a note on a verse, the active Bible view changes to that verse also

Another way to see the verses for which you have notes on, is from the Bible tree by selecting from the toolbar the highlighting of notes according to verse notes (see Bible tree topic)

You can select to highlight the verses for which you have added notes directly on the Bible view. To do so, right click on a Bible view and select Highlight verses with notes. Doing so will cause those verses that have notes to appear in red letters and a red bar at the right of the verse.

Subject notes

With subject notes, you can add your notes on any given subject. Click on the Subjects tab on the notes window to see/edit subject notes. To add a new note, click  on the corresponding icon on the toolbar and enter a new title for your subject. After that click on the Add note link or click on the edit notes icon (or press F2).

To see a list of all the subject notes you have added either:

Book & Chapter notes

These are notes on a specific book or chapter. They work exactly like the verse notes.

Foot notes

Footnotes are exactly like verse notes but they are displayed along with the Bible text. For information about adding footnotes, please refer to the Bible view topic.

Where are my notes saved? How to make a backup?

All your personal notes, verse lists, and any Bible text formatting you have applied to any translation are saved in the file user.edb. This file resides in the program's installation directory (default is c:\Program Files\The Word). You can make a backup of your notes just by copying this file to another location.  Make sure that the program is not running before you copy this file!

From times to times, and especially if you have made a lot of updates/deletes it is advised to perform a compact operation on the file. This will shrink the file and correct any possible errors within. To do this, from the Help menu choose Repair/Compact notes.

If you decide to re-install the program in another computer or in another location, you can copy this file to restore all your notes.

Check the tips & tricks topic on how to set an alternate location for this file.