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http://community.logos.com/forums/p/41291/307827.aspx#307827 inspired this suggestion. I would enjoy using a Guide that pulled together the following Logos functions - some with some modifications. It should handle secular calendar dates and liturgical calendar dates to the same degree Logos currently handles them. I have put added functionality below the Guide sections.
Lectionary section
- add ability to select between options
- add ability to mark items as read
Calendar devotional section
- add ability to mark items as read
NEW: Prayer book section - works like a calendar devotional except that it follows the liturgical calendar of the lectionaries.
Prayer list section (with the modifications requested in uservoice)
NEW: Quote of the day section - I have hijacked the prayer list to provide quotes rather than prayer requests ... a formal mechanism to provide quotes would be nice but not essential
Reading plan section - when it is for the Bible it should probably be at the top of the list.
Reading list section to support topical readings
- Note file to serve as journal
- a quick way to place a time stamp at the beginning of the note title
NEW: a calendar based to do list with the ability to mark items as done [low priority to myself but I can see how it would be high on others' list]
NEW: a section that consists of links to other resources i.e. to prayers e.g. WCC prayer for specific countries, prayer books e.g. Watchwords or Missio Dei, meditations on the readings on the web or in other Logos resources
For this to be highly successful rather than just successful we would need to be able to:
- create our own lectionaries to allow for optional or congregational specific choices - think Season of Creation
- create our own prayer books to allow for common services such as the World Day of Prayer (I believe that the PB already permits this based on calendar date but not on liturgical date)
- add comments to a prayer list item without terminating the item
- use Scripture references within a prayer list item
- allow the use of liturgical dates rather than secular calendar dates within a prayer list
- allow the reading plan to include "lectionaries by secular calendar date" in which the user states precisely what is to be read and may subdivide it by time of day (think McCheyne type reading plans)
- allow reading plans that repeat endlessly (think Orthodox 8 week plan for reading the New Testament)
- all for the exchange of the user built materials
I would think that such a Guide would provide a nice entry point for the new user and a selling point for non-professionals. Plus in initial release, it would simply pull together current functions with some modifications so that the initial cost of development shouldn't be prohibitive.
As the original poster of this particular request, I must say that I would rework this request substantially now. I would see the solution now as more of a hybrid between an alternative home page / devotional default layout AND significant enhancement of a number of the devotional features of Logos
