Do you do sermon prep on your mobile device?

Dave Dunkin (Logos)

Your feedback will help us determine future features.

[Poll]

Mark Smith

I would love to make greater use of the iPad app for sermon prep but the limitations of iOS and/or the app prohibit that.

I do a lot of reading, some highlighting, and a few word look-ups on the iPad. I don't do much in the way of searches. I don't try to study the original languages. I don't create many notes. I don't use the iPad to type my sermon notes/manuscript; that is a full-size keyboard and fully functioning word processor job.

The more research I could do on the iPad - i.e. the closer it came to being the full desktop app, the more I'll use if for sermon prep. Right now it is mostly a reader. But that is really what the iOS Logos app is at the present.

Paul-C

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/583231#Comment_583231

For me, adding the ability to make clippings in the iOS app would be one of the most beneficial developments to encourage me to do more sermon prep on my iPad. 

John Kaess

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/583237#Comment_583237

I do intensive prep to teach adult ce each week on my ipad using Logos 5 platinum, cloud outliner, evernote and keynote along with tecarta bible because it lets me easily change between translations and i can copy/paste passages without getting all the subscripts and superscripts that come from copying and pasting passages from logos. I do copy and paste from other resources in logos like commentaries and dictionaries, but copy/pasting bible passages from logos into keynote is a disaster requiring more work to remove the superflous letters it adds than if i had hand typed the passage, hence using tecarta bible is faster and easier. I only go to the desktop program if i need a complex search a word study, then i copy what i need from logos into evernote and open evernote on my ipad to get it into keynote. Cloud outliner is a versatile program for organizing information. I just dump a lot into cloud outliner while i am reading/studying, then i organize it in cloud outliner and copy it into keynote. I've devolped this process over the past 2 years and it works well for me.

Alan Macgregor

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/583231#Comment_583231

I would love to make greater use of the iPad app for sermon prep but the limitations of iOS and/or the app prohibit that.

I agree. If the app were more capable, especially with Clippings, I'd probably use it more.

John Kaess

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/583247#Comment_583247

I still can't believe that i had to buy bible versions in tecarta bible because my all powerful logos 'bible' software is incapable on copying and pasting scriptures without including all kinds of extraneous letters mixed in the passage be ause of notations in logos done with superscripts and subscripts that come iver as regular text in the passage making copy and paste if 'bible' passages unuseable in my multithousand dollar program.  It's absurd.

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/583309#Comment_583309

John, this is frustrating. In the desktop app we can use Copy Bible Verses to copy and paste text without all that extraneous info. Not so with iOS. The whole process of getting Logos info into a word processing document on the iPad is not worth the effort to me. Much of that is the limitations of the operating system.

Michael T Longson

Yes, but there is room for a lot of improvements for sermon prep and delivery: the ability to use a stylus and effective word processing with interactive features such as verse and note pop-up functions to name just a few.

MWW

No Copy Bible Verses is a hindrance to sermon prep. Please add this feature!

Charles

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/584893#Comment_584893

My sermon prep and Bible Study Lessons prep are done on my large screen iMac. I find both my iPad and iPhone too limiting for sermon prep primarily because of their screen size and difficulty of doing research.  I do know one fellow minister who preaches from his iPad.  I guess I'm old fashioned because I like to keep my Bible open and prepared sermon notes in front of me while I preach.

In Christ,

Charles

 

Alan Macgregor

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/585852#Comment_585852

I do know one fellow minister who preaches from his iPad.  I guess I'm old fashioned because I like to keep my Bible open and prepared sermon notes in front of me while I preach.

I use my iPad instead of paper notes for both my order of service and my sermon. Since I use a mind-mapping app for my sermon notes, the iPad makes moving about the page a breeze and allows me to have bigger print than a single-page printed mind map could possibly allow. After about 2 years of doing this this way, I'd be reluctant to return to a printed sheet.

That said, I still use a print Bible for the scripture reading because the iPad Logos app is far too unstable to be relied upon.

Every blessing

Alan