Your Preferred Combination
As I sat in a coffeeshop today, I noticed a guy that I had seen a few times before with his Bible out. But that was not the part that got me thinking. In addition to having his Bible out, he was typing notes in MS Word, and using another program to look up commentary information.
Looking at him interact with that setup for a bit it hit me that while there is this studying that we have to do; many facets of mobile technology allow us to do this in different ways. This person used a combination of a print Bible, word processor, and online information. What are some of the combination that you use when studying the Bible? And do you have a journal/Word document where you keep track of what you do?
posted by Antoine @ 5/19/2008 09:00:00 PM
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Thinkpad T40, Bible Explorer open to the text, commentaries strewn about since I won't pay the ridiculous prices for electronic versions, Word open as well as a legal pad to jot the stray thoughts. Pretty much it.
David
I'm quite eclectic. I use my Mac, with three different programs--Accordance, MacSword and BibleTime running in the X11 environment. I also like to use DevonThink for Bible studies, as it has wonderful indexing and cross referencing capabilities (and it is easy to enter urls that open in MacSword).
Furthermore, I also have BibleTime and GnomeSword running under Ubuntu Linux, both on my Powerbook and on my Linux Dell laptop (my "beater" book).
Worse, I have PalmBible+ running on my Palm (now a Treo), together with RoadLIngua for glossaries.
Lastely, but not least, I do have my print Bible (with margin notes and cross references), but also I use MacSword to print out single books, bind them with Rollabind and Circa rings, to make special study books, where I write commentaries on the books. I use these books, both for personal notes and for sermon notes. I think I've got something on my flickr pages: LINK
I know people will ask if I don't wish if I had one program, one place that did it all? Well, first of all, such a beast would be well-nigh impossible to please me, secondly, it would probably be prohibitively expensive, ;-) but most importantly, I probably wouldn't be happy. I personally have no problems using multiple tools, and having my work sort of scattered. I firmly believe in using the proper tool for the job. A Leatherman may be fine in a pinch, but you wouldn't want to perform heart surgery with one. Nor change your timing belt, nor fix your laptop. I tend to prefer the surgical tool approach over the "one-program-fits-all".
However, I do have one "advantage" over most people today. I have no use for most modern writing, and am very happy with what is available in the public domain. This means for me, the Project Sword modules. Other than Accordance, everything I use comes from this wonderful resource.
-Jon
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