Reading Plan frustration

Why is it still not possible to create a reading plan where we read one chapter per day/week?* Surely this is how most people read books, not in groups of X pages per week regardless of where those pages fall.

Can any Logos devs give any encouragement about this getting any better in the future?

* And yes, I know about custom reading plans. But then you have to spend ages selecting each chapter one by one, and then you're stuck with a plan you can't easily edit or 'catch up'.

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TCBlack

I agree wholeheartedly Mark. Let's try to present a community sourced request list so we can come up with a final request for the excellent programmers at Logos to bring to life.

Yasmin Stephen

Yes, please!! I don't use reading plans as much as I would like because of this frustration. And setting up a custom plan is too irritating for anything past a dozen chapters - I invariably put in a wrong date or mess up my selection somehow, and have to start over.

Richard Villanueva

Is there a User Voice suggestion available for this request??

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/916796#Comment_916796

I have not looked for one yet Richard, because I'm trying to build a comprehensive request to submit.

Phil Gons (Logos)

Why is it still not possible to create a reading plan where we read one chapter per day/week?* Surely this is how most people read books, not in groups of X pages per week regardless of where those pages fall.

Can any Logos devs give any encouragement about this getting any better in the future?

* And yes, I know about custom reading plans. But then you have to spend ages selecting each chapter one by one, and then you're stuck with a plan you can't easily edit or 'catch up'.

Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure. And we're exploring how to leverage this same TOC structure in the reading plan creation process. We've been doing two-week sprints with each of our Logos dev teams, and we may be able to tackle this in one of the next several sprints.

Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/916800#Comment_916800

Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure.

Thanks, Phil. That's encouraging. A better picker would make one step easier, although you can already specify page numbers, so that's not the main issue. The really vital thing is to prefer breaks at chapters/sub-headings, rather than page numbers.

Phil Gons (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/916840#Comment_916840

Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure.

Thanks, Phil. That's encouraging. A better picker would make one step easier, although you can already specify page numbers, so that's not the main issue. The really vital thing is to prefer breaks at chapters/sub-headings, rather than page numbers.

Agreed. Leveraging the book's own content structure for calculating intelligent divisions is the main goal of what we're investigating.

Andrew Zoll

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/916843#Comment_916843

Mark, we were just discussing this last week. We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure.

Thanks, Phil. That's encouraging. A better picker would make one step easier, although you can already specify page numbers, so that's not the main issue. The really vital thing is to prefer breaks at chapters/sub-headings, rather than page numbers.

Agreed. Leveraging the book's own content structure for calculating intelligent divisions is the main goal of what we're investigating.

This makes my heart happy!

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/916800#Comment_916800

We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure. And we're exploring how to leverage this same TOC structure in the reading plan creation process. We've been doing two-week sprints with each of our Logos dev teams, and we may be able to tackle this in one of the next several sprints.

Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.

In the interim Phil, could you look at the other thread and take note of some parallel thoughts.

Phil Gons (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/917327#Comment_917327

We're working on improving the reference range picker for non-versified resources by exposing the table of contents, which will allow you to search or run a concordance on part of a resource based on its content structure. And we're exploring how to leverage this same TOC structure in the reading plan creation process. We've been doing two-week sprints with each of our Logos dev teams, and we may be able to tackle this in one of the next several sprints.

Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.

In the interim Phil, could you look at the other thread and take note of some parallel thoughts.

I replied over there with some of the things we're investigating.

Reuben Helmuth

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/916800#Comment_916800

Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.

Is this still on the table?

Adam Borries (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/965801#Comment_965801

Longer term, we're considering a reading plans / Courses merger.

Is this still on the table?

It's still on the table for the long term, but it's not on the roadmap for the foreseeable future.

tjebme

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/965941#Comment_965941

Looking forward to progress on this issue!