Mac - Highlights and Highlighters – Olive Tree

What are Highlights?

Highlights let you visually mark key words, phrases, or verses so they stand out during your Bible study. Whether you're identifying important themes, tracking repeated ideas, or simply marking a verse to revisit later, highlights provide a personal way to stay engaged with Scripture. You can also organize your highlights using tags and categories to make them easy to browse and reference later.

Verse-Based vs. Word-Based Highlights

There are two ways to create highlights in the app:

Verse-Based Highlights: Created by selecting a verse number. These highlights are tied to that verse and appear across all downloaded Bible translations.
Word-Based Highlights: Created by selecting specific text. These are tied to the exact resource where they were created (e.g., a specific Bible translation or commentary).

Create a Highlight

You can create a highlight while viewing text in the app. As mentioned above, these highlights can be tied either to a verse or to specific text. Here are the steps you can follow to add a highlight:

Select a verse number or select text and then secondary click on the selected text (or hold 'control' and click). Select Highlight.
Choose the label, tags, and category and then select the highlighter color you would like to use to create the highlight.

Edit a Highlight

There are two ways to edit a highlight. First, you can edit a highlight from the sidebar:

Ensure your sidebar is open. The sidebar can be toggled by selecting this icon:
Select Highlights.
Choose the highlighter color associated with the highlight you wish to edit or select 'All Highlighters'.
Select the 'i' icon to the right of a highlight you wish to edit to open the edit window. Here you can change the label, assign the highlight to a category, change the highlighter color, and edit the tags. You can also perform these actions or delete the highlight by selecting the Settings icon in the upper right corner.

Settings (gear icon) offers the following options:
1. Delete Highlight
2. Edit Tags
3. Change Category
4. Edit Title (Label)
5. Change Highlighter
Select the Label field to change the label (title).
Select the Category field to choose a category.
Select the color to change the highlighter color.
Here is the text that is highlighted.
This is the date the highlight was created.
This is the date the highlight was last updated.
Tap 'Edit' to change or remove existing tags.
Select '+ Add Tag' to add a tag.

Second, you can edit a highlight from the text:

Select any highlighted text. Secondary click (or hold 'control' and click).
Select 'Edit Highlight'.
You may now edit the highlight with the same options as shown above:

Delete A Highlight

There are two ways to delete a highlight in our app. First, you can delete a highlight from the text:

Select any highlighted text. Secondary click (or hold 'control' and click).
Select 'Edit Highlight'.
Select the Options icon in the upper right corner of the highlight pop-up and select 'Delete Highlight.'
Select 'Delete' again to confirm the deletion.

Second, you can delete a highlight through the sidebar:

Ensure your sidebar is open. The sidebar can be toggled by selecting this icon:
Select Highlights.
Select the color associated with the highlight or select 'All Highlighters' to locate the highlight you wish to delete.
Secondary click the highlight (or hold 'control' and click) and then select 'Delete'.
Select Delete.
Confirm that you would like to delete the highlight.

Create a Highlighter

You can create and customize highlighters to fit your preferences. Follow these steps to create a highlighter:

Ensure your sidebar is open. The sidebar can be toggled by selecting this icon:
Select Highlights.
Select Edit in the upper right corner.
Scroll to the bottom of the sidebar, if needed, and select Add Highlighter.

On the next screen, you can assign a label (title), choose highlight or underline, change the intensity of the color, and choose the color. Select the back arrow in the upper left corner to save the highlighter. It will now appear as an option when you add a highlight in the text.

Edit a Highlighter

If you would like to change a highlighter, you can do so in the highlighter window using these steps:

Ensure your sidebar is open. The sidebar can be toggled by selecting this icon:
Select Highlights.
Select the 'i' icon to the right of the highlighter.
There are a few different ways that you can customize your highlighter:

Select the Label field to change the label.
Select Highlight or Underline to change the type.
Change the intensity of your highlighter.
Change the color of your highlighter.

Delete a Highlighter

You can only delete highlighters that are not associated with highlights. If you have created highlights with the highlighter you want to delete, you will first need to edit or delete those highlights using the steps described above. Once you have done this, follow these steps to delete the highlighter:

Ensure your sidebar is open. The sidebar can be toggled by selecting this icon:
Select Highlights.
Locate the highlighter you wish to delete. Secondary click the highlighter (or hold 'control' and click) and then select 'Delete'.
Confirm that you would like to delete the highlighter.

We hope this article has been helpful in learning how to use the highlight feature within the Olive Tree Bible App! If you need further assistance, please reach out to our Customer Support team by submitting a ticket here.