A notebook is a named set your highlights go into, and choosing one changes what a passage shows you — so it is a way of reading rather than just a label.
What A Notebook Is
A notebook is a named set your highlights go into — "Advent", "Promises", a year. Open one under Settings → Highlights & Notes → Notebooks to give it a name, a note of its own about what belongs in it, and its own meaning for each highlight color.
Every highlight belongs to a notebook. The current notebook is the one new highlights go into. Choose it with Current Notebook at the top of the Notebooks section in Settings → Highlights & Notes, or with New Highlights Go Here on a notebook's own screen — the two are the same choice. A highlight already made can be moved: tap it and pick a different notebook, or pick one on the note screen that follows a new highlight.
If FerventWord App ever finds a highlight that is in no notebook — one made by an older version, or one whose notebook was removed on another device running one — it puts it into a notebook called Recovered Highlights, where you can move it wherever it belongs.
Menu → Your Highlights & Notes shows everything in one notebook, wherever in the Bible it is. Showing chooses which notebook you are looking at and nothing else; the current one is marked. Sort Order lists the highlights by Bible or by Recent, and the arrow beside it turns either the other way round — Genesis first or Revelation first, newest first or oldest first — with a line underneath saying which. Whichever order and direction you choose are the ones you find next time. In This Notebook is the list itself: the highlights in that notebook and no other. Tapping a highlight opens its passage with every notebook's highlights drawn on that chapter, so the one you tapped is there to find — until you move that bookmark to another passage, when the page goes back to showing the current notebook.
What The Colors Mean Here
Each notebook has its own names for the five highlight colors. Open a notebook and you can call green Promises, orange Warnings, blue Prayer — whatever you decided they would stand for while you were reading. You can also turn off the colors you are not using in that notebook, so the picker only offers the ones you want.
Those words belong to that notebook and reach no other. A notebook you start next year can call green something else entirely, and the one you have been reading goes on saying what it says — which is the point: a scheme you worked out once stays readable long after you have moved on to another.
Settings → Highlights & Notes → Default Colors For New Notebooks is where a new notebook starts from. Changing those names leaves your existing notebooks as they are. Use The Default Names on a notebook's own screen puts that one back to them, and changes nothing you have highlighted.
With Show Highlights set to All Notebooks, a passage can show highlights from more than one notebook at once — and each highlight is named by its own notebook, so a green highlight from last year is still called what you called it then.
What A Passage Shows
A passage shows the highlights in your current notebook. Switch notebooks and the page follows — which is what makes a notebook a way of reading. Settings → Highlights & Notes → Show Highlights has three settings: All Notebooks shows everything at once, Current Notebook shows only the notebook new highlights go into, and None keeps the page clear. New highlights always go into the current notebook whichever you choose, so this only changes what you see.
The reading bar's More menu has a row for the bookmark you are reading, lasting until that bookmark is pointed somewhere new: Show All Highlights on Current Notebook, or Show This Chapter's Highlights on None. The setting is for always; the menu row is for now.
One Bookmark, One Notebook
One bookmark can file into a different notebook from the others. Tap More in the reading bar and choose Notebook to point the bookmark you are reading at one of your own — useful when you are reading two passages together and they belong to different sets. It does not change the setting, and it lasts until that bookmark is pointed somewhere new. Use Current Notebook in the same menu puts the bookmark back to following the setting.
A Notebook Each Year
Turn on Create A New Notebook Each Year and on 1 January FerventWord App adds a notebook named for the new year and makes it the current one; turning the setting on part-way through a year adds this year's straight away. A notebook you switched to deliberately is left alone.
Removing Or Deleting A Notebook
Remove Notebook, on a notebook's own screen or by swiping its row in Settings → Highlights & Notes → Notebooks, asks where its highlights go. Move Highlights To another notebook takes them there and removes the notebook; Delete Notebook And Its Highlights deletes both, on this device and on your other devices.
Delete Notebooks And Their Highlights, in Settings → Clear & Delete, does the same for several notebooks at once: it deletes the notebooks you choose and every highlight and note inside them. If you want a copy first, Settings → Export & Import writes your notebooks to files you can read anywhere.
A highlight always needs a notebook to go into, so if you delete every notebook you have, FerventWord App makes a new one named for this year straight away.