Today is a momentous day: Letters by Butch Walker is 10 years old. If you know me at all, you know that Butch is my favorite artist (see previous posts here). For many years, I would buy this album for friends just out of the blue so they’d be introduced to Butch. To understand why this is such a big deal to me, first, let’s cover a little background.
Month: August 2014
Surfer Blood
I love this song so much.
A URL Scheme for Logos Bible Software for iOS
As a quick follow-up to my previous post, it turns out that Logos for iPhone/iPad does have a URL scheme. No, not the type I was looking for with X-Callback support, but still, a URL scheme nonetheless. I thought I’d quick publish how I’m using it in case any other geeks are looking for a way to open Logos directly to a bible or book.
We have chosen Psalms as a passage of scripture for our two girls. As a part of my nightly routine with my daughters, I will read the Psalm with them. I could be a normal dad and pull out a physical bible[1] or I could pull out my phone, which I invariably have with me everywhere I go. That means that if we’re somewhere and we just need to read something to keep her engaged, I have easy access to it.
I had been using the built in “favorites” feature to Logos for iOS but that was way too many steps. I was trying to think of ways to get to get to the Psalm. Should I put the text into a markdown file and launch that file from Launch Center Pro? Should I use LCP to launch directly to a website like Biblia.com that will have the passage? Neither of these options were great in my mind. Then after a few weeks, I remembered that Logos had URL links long before I got into this whole iOS automation thing.
I went to the Logos forums and realized that someone had already done a great job with LCP & Logos. So here’s what I did.
- Went to the passage I wanted in Logos for Mac and selected
Copy Location as URL. - Send Logos URL to my iPhone via Command-C
- Open Launch Center Pro
- Create a new action using the url on the clipboard as the URL.
- Name the action.
- Boom! Open directly to the passage (or section if it’s a book)
- I should note that my daughter and I do read out of The Big Picture Story Bible by David Helm almost every night. ↩
Sweetness of Freedom 