Unofficial, unsupported prototype. Logos Link is a personal side project and proof-of-concept. It is not an official Logos product, is not on the product roadmap, and comes with no guarantees of support, stability, or continued availability. Shared here for feedback only.

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Try Logos Link, then tell me what you think.

Logos Link is a small Chrome extension I’ve been building on the side — it turns Bible references, theology terms, biblical entities, books, and Greek or Hebrew words on the open web into one-click doors into Logos and Study Assistant. It’s an unofficial, experimental prototype. If you’re willing, install it, try it on a few websites, and share what you find. This page walks through each feature surface and a few things to try.

Version 1.0.0 Status Unofficial prototype From Phil Gons

Surface · 01

Toolbar

The quickest entry points: open the sidebar, pin for fast toggle, silence the extension on a given site, or jump to Options.

  1. Click the Logos Link icon in the toolbar to open the sidebar.
  2. Pin the extension (click the puzzle-piece icon → pin icon next to Logos Link) so the toolbar button is always visible and you can toggle it on or off with one click.
  3. Right-click the icon to disable Logos Link on the current website. Useful when a site’s own link-preview (e.g. Wikipedia) conflicts with ours.
  4. Choose Options from the right-click menu to customize default behavior — detection, tooltips, intercepts, citation formats, and Logos product links.

Surface · 02

New Tab

Open a new tab and Chrome lands on a Bible-study launchpad — a daily Verse of the Day, a single search field that figures out what you mean, and one-click tiles into Logos.

  1. Verse of the Day sits at the top with one-click Read, Explain, Ask, and Study actions — jump into the reader, ask Study Assistant to explain it, ask your own question about it, or open it in Factbook.
  2. Smart Search in the middle figures out what you mean: type a passage like Romans 8:28 to open the reader; type a question like What is justification? to send it to Study Assistant; type anything else to run a Logos library search.
  3. Quick-launch tiles below the search field jump you into your preferred Bible, Study Assistant, a random Factbook entry, the Logos store, or the side panel.
  4. Five themes live in the bottom-left corner — White, Light, Medium, Deep, Dark. Pick one; it applies across the whole extension.
  5. Prefer something else? In Settings → New Tab, switch to a minimal layout (search field only) or redirect the new tab to a URL of your choice.

Surface · 04

Page content

The core of the product: Logos Link silently detects biblical content on the pages you read. Three specific contexts to try.

Web articles

  1. Go to a page like this Desiring God article — dense in Bible references, theology terms, and biblical entities.
  2. Hover over an underlined Bible reference, topic, Greek/Hebrew word, or book to see a preview tooltip. Click the link to open the sidebar to that item: the right tab, scrolled to the right card.
  3. Click a link in the tooltip to launch Logos — open a Bible, open Factbook, run a search, or Ask Study Assistant a question about whatever the tooltip is showing.

Google Search

  1. Run a Google search for John 3:16, then click the Bible Gateway result. Logos Link intercepts the click and reroutes it to app.logos.com, so the reference opens in the Logos web app instead of Bible Gateway.

Book PDPs

  1. Visit any Amazon book PDP — or a publisher’s book page — and look for the toast in the bottom-right corner that searches for the book on Logos.com.

Surface · 05

Omnibox

A keyword shortcut in Chrome’s address bar for fast lookups without opening any page.

  1. Type l into the Chrome address bar, press Tab or Space, then type either:
    • A Bible reference (e.g. John 3:16) — opens that passage in the Logos web app.
    • A question (e.g. What is justification?) — sends it to Study Assistant.
    • Any other search term (e.g. Trinity) — runs a Logos library search.

Surface · 06 Rough edges

Context menu

Right-click actions for selected text or links, routed through a Logos Link submenu.

  1. Right-click on page content — selected text or a link — and look for the Logos Link menu item to take actions on the selected item or text, including Explain "X" (sends a quick prompt to Study Assistant) and Ask about "X"… (opens a modal so you can frame your own question with the selection as context).

Still early — needs further testing and polish. Try it on a few kinds of selections and tell me what feels missing.

Before you go

What I’m looking for

There are known bugs and polish gaps I haven’t gotten to yet. Feel free to report anything, but I’m most interested in whether the core idea earns a place in your workflow — and where it falls short of that.

Where to send feedback. Please reply in the Logos community forum thread where you found this link. If it’s a detection bug, the page URL plus the reference / term / book that was missed is plenty. Big-picture reactions welcome too.