Suggestions for Reading Plan Features
Recent updates on my PC have made it more difficult to order and filter reading plans, leading to these suggestions.
This is an issue for me (and I suspect many others) because reading plans are a powerful way to discipline myself into reading a lot and completing books, rather than just starting and then forgetting about them.
It would be helpful to have the following features in reading plans:
- An easy way to order reading plans, e.g. drag and drop, to make setting up personal priorities and organisation much faster
- Reading plans to be in the same order and with the same visual layout on every device
- A picture of the book cover (and minimal text) as a part of the reading plans overview visual interface
- A feature which automatically ignores the title/contents/copyright/appendices, etc. when setting up the reading plan. This allows the reader to set up more easily and accurately get a sense of the time it takes to get through a book.
- The ability to select a set number of words or pages or Bible verses for reading plans, again to help with knowing predictable lengths for planning and to set up extended scripture memorisation easily.
I would suspect that there are many people who would love to read much more, and to make use of the "in-between" times to read more effectively. This would help immensely!
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Hi Samuel
Samuel Hight said:It would be helpful to have the following features in reading plans:
- An easy way to order reading plans, e.g. drag and drop, to make setting up personal priorities and organisation much faster
On this point are you aware that you can reorder plans using drag and drop in the homepage customise screen - click the gear icon at the top right of the screen?
Graham
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Brilliant, thank you Graham! I thought this feature was lost in an update and I couldn't find it in the help files [:)]
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Samuel Hight said:
I thought this feature was lost in an update
It was actually only reintroduced in Logos 6.2 as per https://wiki.logos.com/Logos_6.2 which has
"Added the ability to select individual Prayer Lists and Reading Plans for the Sidebar, and to rearrange them individually. This restores the 5.2b behavior."
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Samuel Hight said:
A feature which automatically ignores the title/contents/copyright/appendices, etc. when setting up the reading plan. This allows the reader to set up more easily and accurately get a sense of the time it takes to get through a book.
This is a nice idea
Samuel Hight said:The ability to select a set number of words or pages or Bible verses for reading plans, again to help with knowing predictable lengths for planning and to set up extended scripture memorisation easily.
When generating a Reading Plan for Bibles you can set boundaries at chapter and pericope levels which goes someway towards part of what you are asking for
And you can do this using Custom Reading Plans but they take some setting up
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