How it works
You do not need any of this to start — today’s reading is already on the first page, and reading it is the whole idea. These are just the three things that are least obvious.
Right keeps a verse, and it waits for you under Saved for good. Left clears it once you have read it, which tidies the day as you go — nothing is lost, and the verse comes back tomorrow.
On a computer there are buttons on every card doing the same two things, so nobody has to know a gesture to use the app.
A date does not have to be today’s. Type your birthday, an anniversary, the day you were baptised, and ScriptDate keeps the name with it. Its verses become that day’s reading.
This is the part people feel rather than understand. A wedding anniversary stops being two numbers and becomes the thirty-odd verses your marriage shares with the Bible.
Pray is a cloud of words — healing, grief, fear, doubt, loneliness — and behind each one a short list somebody read and chose. Not everything Scripture says on the subject: the handful worth praying.
Plans is for reading with other people. A sermon or a study becomes a list anyone can take up with a six-character code, and what they finish counts toward their own reading.
A kept verse can be filed under one of six colours, given your own tags, and written on — a note in your own words, kept against the reference rather than the day, so it is waiting the next time that date comes round.
Your verses live in your own browser and the app works without an account. Signing in with an email carries them to a second device. There is a progress screen with a streak that forgives the occasional missed day, and once you have visited, the whole thing works with no signal at all.
None of that needs learning now. It is here for when you go looking.