Updated Feature: Reading Plans

What is it?

Logos 6’s updated Reading Plans feature now allows you to create fully customizable plans—use them for personal reading, a Bible study group, class, and more!

You can add readings from multiple resources in a single session. Plans with multiple resources will require Logos 6 or newer.
You can drag and drop selections to a reading session.
You can drag and drop panels to a reading session.
You can add sessions based upon current position and selection in opened resources.
You can add sessions for specific references.
You can add readings from a Passage List or another Reading Plan.

How does it work?

Logos 6 offers a lot more customization for reading plans as well as several new predefined reading plans including Robert Murray M'Cheyne's popular reading plan.

Learn more about Reading Plans, or start a new one in Logos 6.

How do I get it?

New Search features are available in all Crossgrades and all Base Package levels.

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Comments

Fr. Rafal Kandora

I doesn't work with Verbum on IOS

Graham Criddle

HI Fr. Rafal - and welcome to the forums

I doesn't work with Verbum on IOS

These new features are for the desktop platform (Logos / Verbum 6) and are not available on the mobile platforms at the moment (and we don't know which of them will be or when this will happen)

Dan

Is there a shorthand syntax for multi-source reading plans (e.g. comma delimited)?

There is a popular Read the Bible and Catechism in One Year plan, but it looks like I will have to enter all 365 sessions using the user interface. Is this correct?

Andrew Batishko

Is there a shorthand syntax for multi-source reading plans (e.g. comma delimited)?

There is a popular Read the Bible and Catechism in One Year plan, but it looks like I will have to enter all 365 sessions using the user interface. Is this correct?

At this time there isn't a way to do it directly. But... there may be a indirect method that will speed things up.

For custom reading plans, you can add readings from a Passage List (creating one reading per day for each item in the list). Passage Lists can add references from a text file.

So, if you can get the references to a text file, then you can do something like the following:

Create a text file containing all of the references in the first column
Create a passage list and add the references from the text file.
Add the passage list to the reading plan.
Repeat these steps for each of the other Bible columns

After you are finished, you can delete all the passage lists.

Unfortunately, This won't work for the Catechism column. I can't think of an easy way to handle that, so you have to use the interface. I recommend adding all of these readings first, since the Add from Passage List will merge with the readings you have already created, but manual adding of readings will tend to keep adjusting the date to the first date without a reading.

Ron

So is it finally possible to create a Bible reading plan that amounts to "read a chapter a day" instead of Logos arbitrarily dividing the total reading to make the amount of reading per day approximately equal? (Please??)

Jonathan J Watson

Yes! I was really looking forward to this feature. You now have an option to read by "Default," "Chapter," or "Pericope." I've attached screenshots that show the difference.

For this example, I've chosen Proverbs, since its 31 chapters won't quite go perfectly into 30 days of November.

Anthony H

There is far to much of a need to click in several levels to make some of the simpler modification that were available in L5. There needs to be a way, if there isn't already, to turn on and off the visibility of individual reading plans if there is more than one.

see post

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/93618.aspx

Ron

Yes! I was really looking forward to this feature. You now have an option to read by "Default," "Chapter," or "Pericope." I've attached screenshots that show the difference.

Great news, thanks!

Timothy Jang

Is there any way to set an individual reading plan of books from my library by page numbers?

NB.Mick

So is it finally possible to create a Bible reading plan that amounts to "read a chapter a day" instead of Logos arbitrarily dividing the total reading to make the amount of reading per day approximately equal? (Please??)

Yes! I was really looking forward to this feature. You now have an option to read by "Default," "Chapter," or "Pericope."

Thanks again, this is great! It's a small feature but it's so much better to not get angry everyday that Logos breaks the reading midsentence just because some printer ran out of space on the paper.

Willie Morris

How do I go about adding a custom reading plan based on the Septuagint Psalms (Lexham)? I'd like to create a reading plan based on the Kathismata of the Orthodox Church and have it broken into Stasis.

I tried to create a Passage List, and broke it into 59 parts (e.g., Ps 1-3, 4-6, ... 118:1-72, 118:73-131, etc), and then I added that Passage List to a Custom Reading Plan. Now, when I open it up from the home page, the passages are opened in my default Bible instead of the Lexham Septuagint.

Any thoughts on how I can get this to open in the Septuagint and/or make adding a custom reading plan easier?

David Miller

I am having a terrible time with setting up a new reading plan in Logos 6 and getting it show up correctly in the Android app. I just set one up for a book and it shows correctly in Logos 6. All is good. On the other hand, in the Android app, it shows the reading plan on the Home page but the first line of it says "null" (I set up a reading plan for Paul and the Faithfulness of God). The next line of text below the "null" shows the name of the reading plan.

Now, when I click the entry, it says "unable to navigate to requested resource". Strike one. If I open the book in the Android app, it's also not showing the "read" and "stop reading" markers where I should currently be. If I open the book in Logos 6, I see them.

This is completely not working on the mobile side. This was working great in Logos 5.

Graham Criddle

I am having a terrible time with setting up a new reading plan in Logos 6

What sort of reading plan?

a predefined one
an auto-generated plan
a custom reading plan

Andrew Batishko

Thanks again, this is great! It's a small feature but it's so much better to not get angry everyday that Logos breaks the reading midsentence just because some printer ran out of space on the paper.

You will find that Logos no longer generates reading plans based on page number. Books that used to generate page-number based plans will now generate plans based on the table of contents.

Andrew Batishko

I am having a terrible time with setting up a new reading plan in Logos 6 and getting it show up correctly in the Android app.

At this time, the mobile apps do not support Custom reading plans. Are you creating a Custom or Generated reading plan?

David Miller

I am creating a generated plan.

Andrew Batishko

I am having a terrible time with setting up a new reading plan in Logos 6 and getting it show up correctly in the Android app.

It looks like there is a bug in both the mobile apps and the desktop application that prevent a reading plan from working correctly if it was created based on the resource's table of contents, and the current resource version doesn't match the version the plan was created with.

The resources where you are having problems are ones where the resource was updated on the desktop but not updated on mobile. Bug reports have been filed for the both mobile and the desktop applications.

Stephen Boon

I'm having the same trouble with a reading plan using the NET Bible - I've got several of them, and they all seem to work fine except one in Romans, which shows 'null' as in the above user's comment. I don't know how to file a bug report, if that's what needs doing.

JT (alabama24)

Welcome Stephen! Sorry you are having troubles. [:s]

I'm having the same trouble with a reading plan using the NET Bible - I've got several of them, and they all seem to work fine except one in Romans, which shows 'null' as in the above user's comment. I don't know how to file a bug report, if that's what needs doing.

It would be helpful for you to create a new thread, explaining your issue clearly, and providing appropriate details. What OS? What version of the app? Screenshots?

Stephen Boon

I'm having the same trouble with a reading plan using the NET Bible - I've got several of them, and they all seem to work fine except one in Romans, which shows 'null' as in the above user's comment. I don't know how to file a bug report, if that's what needs doing.

Sorry, that was supposed to be linked to Andrew Batishko's reply to David Miller's issue.

In fact, the same error occurs when I try to create a reading plan for Romans in the ESV.