Purpose of Blue line on Recent view of list?

Brian Russer

Hello,

On the IOS app, running on an iPad, tap the Home button.

On this screen, Sort by Recent.

Your most recent resource/book will appear at the top of the list.

To the right of the resource, there will be a circle.

Inside the circle, it will tell you how recently you used that resource.

If you were to press & hold inside this circle, you would get a red Reset button.

Around the circle there will be a blue line.

Here's my question:

On my list, each resource has different ammounts filled in & in different locations around the circle & each part of the blue line is different lengths. Can someone explain the purpose of this and what the blue line represents.

Bod bless,

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JT (alabama24)

each resource has different ammounts filled in & in different locations around the circle & each part of the blue line is different lengths. Can someone explain the purpose of this and what the blue line represents.

Each blue line represents "read" material. Obviously the app doesn't know what you have read, but when you dwell on a page a little, it will mark it as read. A book that is actually read from cover to cover would likely be solid.

Randy Lane

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/448810#Comment_448810

This is a nice new feature. But, like notations, it's usefulness will only become mature when the differen mobile ps become more equally featured. I currently use a Windows desktop, a first generation iPad, and a Samsung Galaxy Note (ver. 1) smartphone. I plan/hope to acquire a Galaxy Note 7.0 ( not yet officially announced ) as a mini tablet by Q2 2013. The feature this references is not part of the Android app yet, so it only shows as "read" those portions of a book that the desktop or iPad was used for doing the actual reading. For example, if I read chapters 1-6 of a book on the iPad, then read chapters 7-12 of the same book on an Android, and after that read the remainder of he book using the iPad, the circle will not show that I had read chapters 7-12. I need to do more testing to confirm this behavior, but that appears to be what happens right now.

Randy Lane

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/448822#Comment_448822

This is a nice new feature. But, like notations, it's usefulness will only become mature when the differen mobile ps become more equally featured. I currently use a Windows desktop, a first generation iPad, and a Samsung Galaxy Note (ver. 1) smartphone. I plan/hope to acquire a Galaxy Note 7.0 ( not yet officially announced ) as a mini tablet by Q2 2013. The feature this references is not part of the Android app yet, so it only shows as "read" those portions of a book that the desktop or iPad was used for doing the actual reading. For example, if I read chapters 1-6 of a book on the iPad, then read chapters 7-12 of the same book on an Android, and after that read the remainder of he book using the iPad, the circle will not show that I had read chapters 7-12. I need to do more testing to confirm this behavior, but that appears to be what happens right now.

Test case. About a week ago I started reading The History of the Reformation in the Time of Calvin. I read the introductory preface chapters with the iPad the first day, but after that read about one chapter per day with he Android/Note. After writing he above I opened up the work on the iPad. It opened right at the point where I had stopped last night on the Android/Note. I verified my notes were synched by paging back a couple of times and then proceeded to read the next chapter using the iPad. Returning of the iPad library after finishing a chapter, the blue appears where I used the iPad for the preferatory/introductory material, and the portion I just read using the iPad, but there's a big gap between them that is not blue, meaning to me that he iPad is not aware of the portions I read using the Android/Note.

Kevin Byford (Faithlife)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/448822#Comment_448822

This is a nice new feature. But, like notations, it's usefulness will only become mature when the differen mobile ps become more equally featured. I currently use a Windows desktop, a first generation iPad, and a Samsung Galaxy Note (ver. 1) smartphone. I plan/hope to acquire a Galaxy Note 7.0 ( not yet officially announced ) as a mini tablet by Q2 2013. The feature this references is not part of the Android app yet, so it only shows as "read" those portions of a book that the desktop or iPad was used for doing the actual reading. For example, if I read chapters 1-6 of a book on the iPad, then read chapters 7-12 of the same book on an Android, and after that read the remainder of he book using the iPad, the circle will not show that I had read chapters 7-12. I need to do more testing to confirm this behavior, but that appears to be what happens right now.

Hi Randal,

The Reading Progress feature isn't yet supported on Android devices, so what you are seeing is expected behavior. Reading Plan progress will be added for Android but I don't know exactly when.