Reading Plan frustration
Why is it still not possible to create a reading plan where we read one chapter per day/week?* Surely this is how most people read books, not in groups of X pages per week regardless of where those pages fall.
Can any Logos devs give any encouragement about this getting any better in the future?
* And yes, I know about custom reading plans. But then you have to spend ages selecting each chapter one by one, and then you're stuck with a plan you can't easily edit or 'catch up'.
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I agree wholeheartedly Mark. Let's try to present a community sourced request list so we can come up with a final request for the excellent programmers at Logos to bring to life.
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Yes, please!! I don't use reading plans as much as I would like because of this frustration. And setting up a custom plan is too irritating for anything past a dozen chapters - I invariably put in a wrong date or mess up my selection somehow, and have to start over.
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Is there a User Voice suggestion available for this request??
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I have not looked for one yet Richard, because I'm trying to build a comprehensive request to submit.
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Mark Barnes said:
Why is it still not possible to create a reading plan where we read one chapter per day/week?* Surely this is how most people read books, not in groups of X pages per week regardless of where those pages fall.
Can any Logos devs give any encouragement about this getting any better in the future?
* And yes, I know about custom reading plans. But then you have to spend ages selecting each chapter one by one, and then you're stuck with a plan you can't easily edit or 'catch up'.
Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure. And we're exploring how to leverage this same TOC structure in the reading plan creation process. We've been doing two-week sprints with each of our Logos dev teams, and we may be able to tackle this in one of the next several sprints.
Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.
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Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure.
Thanks, Phil. That's encouraging. A better picker would make one step easier, although you can already specify page numbers, so that's not the main issue. The really vital thing is to prefer breaks at chapters/sub-headings, rather than page numbers.
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Mark Barnes said:Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure.
Thanks, Phil. That's encouraging. A better picker would make one step easier, although you can already specify page numbers, so that's not the main issue. The really vital thing is to prefer breaks at chapters/sub-headings, rather than page numbers.
Agreed. Leveraging the book's own content structure for calculating intelligent divisions is the main goal of what we're investigating.
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Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:Mark Barnes said:Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure.
Thanks, Phil. That's encouraging. A better picker would make one step easier, although you can already specify page numbers, so that's not the main issue. The really vital thing is to prefer breaks at chapters/sub-headings, rather than page numbers.
Agreed. Leveraging the book's own content structure for calculating intelligent divisions is the main goal of what we're investigating.
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Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure. And we're exploring how to leverage this same TOC structure in the reading plan creation process. We've been doing two-week sprints with each of our Logos dev teams, and we may be able to tackle this in one of the next several sprints.
Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.
In the interim Phil, could you look at the other thread and take note of some parallel thoughts.
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TCBlack said:Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure. And we're exploring how to leverage this same TOC structure in the reading plan creation process. We've been doing two-week sprints with each of our Logos dev teams, and we may be able to tackle this in one of the next several sprints.
Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.
In the interim Phil, could you look at the other thread and take note of some parallel thoughts.
I replied over there with some of the things we're investigating.
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Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.
Is this still on the table?
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Reuben Helmuth said:Phil Gons (Faithlife) said:
Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.
Is this still on the table?
It's still on the table for the long term, but it's not on the roadmap for the foreseeable future.
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Looking forward to progress on this issue!
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