Making Your Own SAM

Pastors and other teachers, who use laptop computers for overhead projecting of visual aids and notes, can use this structure for quickly finding their own documents, in answer to ad hoc questions from students.

Having downloaded this structure, you can link your own topical Bible notes into it. This web page explains the use of the SAMs (Summary And Master User E-Links).    

First, understand the linkage within the structure:

You may download the entire database structure, Tables of Contents and Index, and then link your own library of topical Bible notes into it, for future ease of retrieval. When you link all of your own Bible doctrines into this structure, you will effectively have a Personal Systematic Theology (PST), complete with Tables of Contents and an Index. 

You may use the Index to locate topics, for instant access. If you use your laptop from your teaching lectern to project your class handouts onto an overhead screen, and if you field questions from your Bible Class, you may find this instant access quite useful. You will be able to display prepared outlines of study materials on an ad hoc basis.

The following are links to other web pages, provided to help you to do the following:

Understand the overall directory (folder) structure of a PST

 

The database structure for this website includes the Tables of Contents and the directories in which they are saved. The entire structure may be downloaded from this web page (3.58 MB zip file). When completed, you will have a directory structure that looks like the following (assuming that you want it to be on your C: disk drive):

                       

If you wish to download the complete structure, click here, then click Open (as shown above), causing the following dialog box to begin displaying the progress of the download:

                                                                      

When the file download has completed, the WinZip Welcome display will appear.

Click the I Agree button. 

Once the WinZip dialog box is visible, click the Extract button ...

Once the Extract dialog box is displayed, 

browse enough to locate and select the C: disk drive, 

and then click the New Folder button ... 

When the Create Folder dialog box is displayed, as shown below,

type the directory name, "NOTEBOOK_PST" into the Name field, 

and then click OK. 

When the Extract dialog box displays, click the Extract button.

After all the files in the archive have been extracted, close the WinZip window.

Congratulations. You should now have the entire structure on your C: drive.

At this point, you might consider doing placing an Icon on your Desktop, to help get to the PST quickly.

Start Windows Explorer. The easiest way may be to: 

  1. Double-click the "My Computer" Icon, on your desktop  
  2. Double-click the "LOCAL DISK (C:)" 
  3. Double-click the "NOTEBOOK_PST" directory (folder) 
  4. Double-click the "BaseT" directory (folder)
  5. Locate and Select (single-left-click) the Site_Map.htm file
  6. Right-click the Site_Map.htm file (see below),

  1. Select  "Send To"
  2. Left-click "Desktop (create shortcut)"

This will place an Icon on your Desktop that looks like the following:

                   

You should be able to Double-click this Icon and start your Browser, which will open your Personal Systematic Theology.