This suggestion is proposing a design approach that meets several suggestions for reading plans and lectionaries.
- At a basic level, lectionaries and reading plans are the same - they assign readings to dates.
- Reading plans have the unique capability of being generated via rules e.g. read the NT in 3 months.
- Lectionaries have the unique capability of being generated from a generic lectionary (yes, I'm aware that Logos does not currently include the sanctoral cycle and votive readings)
- For both reading plans and lectionaries, there is a desire in the user community to be able to specify specific readings for specific days. These may be reading plans in which the divisions are logical rather than length (a person asked about 50 plans or so yesterday). Or these may be lectionaries - modifications to the generated lectionaries based on choices - optional, votive, geographical, religious order - or, as was suggested today, a personal "lectionary" i.e. sermon plan or lesson plan for a year (or other period of time)
My suggestion is a feature that is a generic date-to-reading user interface that bypasses all generation routines and allows the user to enter precisely what they want - and allows them to call it whatever they want - reading plan, sermon plan, lectionary, lesson plan, seminar class assignment readings ... It would require the base functions - add, edit, delete, plus a copy function allowing one to use a base lectionary or reading plan as the base for the new one.
