Monday, May 2, 2005
Topical Bible 1.0 Helps Keep Your Study Notes Organized
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 05:00 AM
http://www.pocketbiblestudy.com/default.aspx
I have been longing for a database for my Pocket PC that would handle notes, topics and verses on the Bible and posed a question to my fellow Mobile Device MVP's if they had a suggestion. I have been a HanDBase fan for years, but I never could get it to do exactly what I wanted in this particular case. Within a few hours of my posting the question, Darryl Burling chimed in that he had been working on just such a project and sent me a link to a very early beta. I immediately installed it and have helped him work out a few kinks over the last few months and yesterday, version 1.0 was released.
It allows you to put in a major topic and several layers of subtopics. Below each of those you can put more subtopics, verses and notes. Each verse can support a note on its own too. All notes are shown in the lower third of the screen. What is really cool is there is a small level of integration with Laridian's PocketBible. Topical Bible can export any tree or entire file to HTML and it honors PocketBible's HTML tag requirements. This means your notes are now a custom book in Pocket Bible and all verse links are hotlinks to those verses! You only need to save the exported HTML file to the \Laridian Books folder on your device.
The software is free and occupies a under 300K on your device. It installs to a storage card or ROM file store with no problem. It does require the .NET compact framework, which is on most if not all 2003 and 2003 SE devices. If you have a Pocket PC 2002, you'll need to download and install NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2. Be sure to check out other features of Darryl's new site, PocketBibleStudy.com while you are there downloading Topical Bible.
I have been longing for a database for my Pocket PC that would handle notes, topics and verses on the Bible and posed a question to my fellow Mobile Device MVP's if they had a suggestion. I have been a HanDBase fan for years, but I never could get it to do exactly what I wanted in this particular case. Within a few hours of my posting the question, Darryl Burling chimed in that he had been working on just such a project and sent me a link to a very early beta. I immediately installed it and have helped him work out a few kinks over the last few months and yesterday, version 1.0 was released.
It allows you to put in a major topic and several layers of subtopics. Below each of those you can put more subtopics, verses and notes. Each verse can support a note on its own too. All notes are shown in the lower third of the screen. What is really cool is there is a small level of integration with Laridian's PocketBible. Topical Bible can export any tree or entire file to HTML and it honors PocketBible's HTML tag requirements. This means your notes are now a custom book in Pocket Bible and all verse links are hotlinks to those verses! You only need to save the exported HTML file to the \Laridian Books folder on your device.
The software is free and occupies a under 300K on your device. It installs to a storage card or ROM file store with no problem. It does require the .NET compact framework, which is on most if not all 2003 and 2003 SE devices. If you have a Pocket PC 2002, you'll need to download and install NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2. Be sure to check out other features of Darryl's new site, PocketBibleStudy.com while you are there downloading Topical Bible.
