Reading plan in Excel

Philipe: It's almost certainly possible. If it's sharable, post it here and I'll give it a shot. If successful, I'll tell you .what I did.

Thank you!

7356.OriginalLanguageBibleReadingSchedulev3.xlsx

Felipe:

Sorry I misspelled your name yesterday; it just rolled off my fingers.

First, I did some disambiguation on a few days in the spreadsheet that will prevent the passage list documents and subsequent reading plan based on them from being confused. Here's the revision:  3782.Revised OriginalLanguageBibleReadingSchedulev3.xlsx

Below are the steps. I would post the finished plan to a Faithlife Group, bot old men such as I are baffled by social media.

1. Open the revised XL file.
2. Select Cells B1:B365 and Copy the selection.
3. In Logos, choose Documents-->Passage List
4. Name the list something like "18PLOT"
5. At the top, click Add and "from:  clipboard". Don't Sort the list.
6. Do Steps 2-5 for the NT column
7. Next, you're going to create two custom readings, which you will combine into one final reading plan.
8. Choose Documents-->Reading Plan-->Custom Reading Plan
9. Name the OT plan something like "18PlanOT"
10. Click Add, "...passage list" and choose the OT passage list created in #5.
11. Leave Today as the starting point on these subsidiary plans; in the final plan which combines them you'll specify the 1/1/18 start date.
12. Do Steps #8-10 for the NT part
13. Choose Documents-->Reading Plans-->Custom Reading Plan
14. Name the final product something like "18PlanOT_NT"
15. Click Add, "another reading plan" and choose the OT preliminary plan from Steps 8-10
16. Click Add, "another reading plan" and choose the NT preliminary plan from Step 12
17. Where it says "Read starting Today", click Today and choose Jan 1, 2018.
18. In both your OT & NT texts, click the Visual Filter button (3 dots) and make sure the final combined plan is checked and the intermediate plan we used is not checked.

This creates a plan that will open in your preferred bible when clicked. So, you'll need to either:

• Create a layout with your reading plan and preferred bible, GNT, and HOT in a link set
• If one of your OL texts is your preferred bible, prioritize the other OL text right below the preferred.

I would certainly appreciate it if anyone else can correct or simplify this.

Thank you! It worked great! I created a Faithhlife group to share it with others. Is there any other way to share a reading plan?

Is there a way to skip a day? I’m assuming it’s a specific text that would have to be entered. 

For example:

• Day 1: Gen. 1-2, Ps. 1
• Day 2: Gen. 3-4, Ps. 2
• Day 3: Break
• Day 4: Gen. 5-6, Ps. 3

Thanks,

Allen

Hi Allen:

I doubt it. The passage list won't recognize a line not containing a passage (I think). Maybe someone else has an idea.

From the Logos Wiki: Selecting how often to read your book

But I had no idea how to import a reading list for faster creation, so thanks so much as that was exactly what I came here’s to find out!

#teamwork

I'm not sure why we can't @-mention people on here, but I wanted to make sure you saw the link for how to schedule for specific days...

Okay, Robert and Allen, I see what y'all mean regarding the empty days. I tried using the pipe chaining "|" method as described in the Wiki, but that still puts one passage per day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've created two versions of my spreadsheet. One with a single column using the pipes, and the other with multiple columns, one for each passage. I have some days that have 8 passages, and some that just have 1. I've sent these over to Logos to see if they have any guidance.

I do hope this is fixed, for I have encountered the same scenario. [:)]