Custom Reading plan

OK, so I want to read 5 chapters OT (successively) each day, 5 chapters NT (successively) each day, and 1 Psalm each day. Is there a way to set that up as a plan? So far, it keeps wanting to force me into either picking a number of verses or a number of days - but has no feature for a number of chapters. Or am I missing something?

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TCBlack

There is still no means of telling it how many chapters on the generate a reading plan option. But the custom reading plan does enable this, it just won't autogenerate.

Reid A Ferguson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/645643#Comment_645643

Thanks TC.

Andrew Batishko

When you create a custom reading plan, you can import multiple existing reading plans to the same starting date. This might help you easily generate what you want.

Try this:

Create a new generated reading plan for Psalms. Make it 150 days long, and change the boundary setting from "default" to "chapter".
Create another generated reading plan for the OT. Make it the desired length and also change the boundary setting to chapter.
Create another generated reading plan for the NT. Make it the desired length and also change the boundary setting to chapter.
Create a custom reading plan.

Use the Add button at the top of the panel to add readings from your Psalms reading plan.
Use Add to add your other two reading plans.

After creating the new custom plan, you can delete the other 3 plans, since those were only needed to help set up the custom plan.

I hope that helps!

Reid A Ferguson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/645687#Comment_645687

Genius Andrew - thank you. Worked like a charm. Only took a few minutes and your instructions were spot on. Thanks again.

Andrew Zoll

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/645687#Comment_645687

Andrew, is there a way to create a custom reading plan for non-bible books? For instance, Fire Someone Today, or The Forgotten God?

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/763600#Comment_763600

Andrew, is there a way to create a custom reading plan for non-bible books? For instance, Fire Someone Today, or The Forgotten God?

Yes. For each day, select the text that you want to read. Then either drag the selection to the "Add a reading session" area in the reading plan, or select the appropriate "Selection" option from the "Choose an open resource" popup. Make sure the date is set as desired, then click the "Add session" button to add it to the plan.

UNSHMD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/645687#Comment_645687

Hey Andrew, I'm trying to do something similar. 2 OT chapters 1NT 1Proverb and 5 Psalms. i have followed your steps but the proverbs and psalm stop after the first month and do not repeat. By the way this reading plan building is actually a practice for next year. I want to do Grant Horner's plan in a continuous way till i decide to stop. So i need plans to restart when over.

UNSHMD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/763610#Comment_763610

Another question, can the custom reading permit me to create a reading plan for a hard copy book i own. We have a book reading group at church, we're about to start A Puritan Theology i'd like to create a reading schedule, but i don't have the book in logos.

Thanks ahead

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232218#Comment_1232218

i have followed your steps but the proverbs and psalm stop after the first month and do not repeat.

You need to make them repeat for as long as desired by listing the book multiple times. As per the help documentation, you can list references separated by semicolons, such as "Prov; Prov; Prov"

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232220#Comment_1232220

Another question, can the custom reading permit me to create a reading plan for a hard copy book i own. We have a book reading group at church, we're about to start A Puritan Theology i'd like to create a reading schedule, but i don't have the book in logos.

Sorry, this is not supported.

UNSHMD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232260#Comment_1232260

shoot this is what i wanted to avoid. I'll print the professor's lists then, no way i'm entering 3650 references one by one. Hope they work on that feature in a near future, cause unless you want a predefined one, or generate a book, it's pretty much useless or too time consuming for me.

Thanks for the quick answer.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232456#Comment_1232456

There are a few posts on this forum for setting up Horner's reading plan. One of those links to this blog post with details on setting it up and supposedly a link to a file that an be imported to set up a 10 year version of the plan. Or you can join a Faithlife group and get a copy of the plan already built for you.

https://theology.danielang.net/2020/12/31/how-to-use-the-horner-bible-reading-plan-in-logos/

UNSHMD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232466#Comment_1232466

Thanks for the link. Just noticed you're a faithlife software developer, so i'd like to throw some questions and ideas at you, if you may. First, i'd like to say i'm not an angry customer trying to bash logos, and your work. 1. It's crazy all he had to do, to just come close, to what he (and I) really want, when there's actually a feature to supposedly do that. It seems to me that a simple option "continuous" or "none" in the end date section would do it. I was able to generate, base on your steps all 10 lists separately, the only problem is that i don't have "never" option in the finishing section. Wouldn't that be an easy thing to add? Even in a future update (like next one [:D] ) Just that would would change this feature so much.

2. If i can not generate any kind of reading plan with the custom option, like one for a physical book i owned, (which would be why i would need such an option in my opinion) and the fact that there's less customizable option than in generate, why is it there? what is it supposed to do? Could you explain to me how this is a benefit to me and and how i'm supposed to use it?

3. Why isn't there an option to say how many pages or chapters for each session? i can change the default thing to chapters, but it doesn't serve me anything when i get to finishing i only can choose 1 yr 6 months sessions verses and a specific date, wich gives me a bunch of off days.

Thanks alot for your work and the time you're giving me

P.S. I really wish you could hear the tone of my voice and see my body language, I'm sincerely not a negative bratz, just want to make the most of the program.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232613#Comment_1232613

2. If i can not generate any kind of reading plan with the custom option, like one for a physical book i owned,

It isn't that you can't generate any kind of reading plan, it is a matter of thinking through how to do it and deciding whether it is worth the effort. You happened to want to create one of the harder plans to create. Faithlife has been fairly responsive in adding features to reading plans, but it isn't one of the areas that users currently have high on their "please enhance this function" - either in the forums or on the feedback site.

UNSHMD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232620#Comment_1232620

You happened to want to create one of the harder plans to create.

Agree, but it could be super simple to do if we could customize the ending time to repeat or never end. import the 10 lists like that into the custom and ta da!

UNSHMD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232620#Comment_1232620

You happened to want to create one of the harder plans to create.

Agree, but it could be super simple to do if we could customize the ending time to repeat or never end. import the 10 lists like that into the custom and ta da!

UNSHMD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232620#Comment_1232620

You happened to want to create one of the harder plans to create.

Agree, but it could be super simple to do if we could customize the ending time to repeat or never end. import the 10 lists like that into the custom and ta da!