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The Bible at my fingertips
A few years ago, I started loading the Bible into my note-taking system. I did it a little bit at a time, adding chapters as needed along the way. Here is a video I created a couple of years ago to show how I was approaching it:
I may have eventually built it all out by doing it that way, but I spent this year focusing on really building it and just finished this morning. Big thanks to my friend Tim for inviting me to the “ 49-Week Challenge “ this year, which walked through the entire Bible in a year.
Each morning when I’d read the 4–6 chapters for the day, I’d manually paste and format them in my system ( currently Tana) as well. It added more work each day, but breaking it into just an extra 5–10 minutes each day was manageable and let to great results.
The 49-Week Challenge was excellent, but didn’t really add much context to the reading for each day. I’m looking forward to getting back into a more traditional daily devotional that focuses on less scripture but goes a bit deeper. I’ll likely dig back into Tony Dungy’s daily devotional, which I had started briefly but set aside for the year-long challenge.
This is where the payoff will come in. As I’m working through Dungy’s devotional, I’ll already have the entire Bible in Tana. It’ll be quite easy to reference scripture and slowly build up a network of linked thoughts, ideas, and scripture over time.
