The Cult of Leif Everything Leif M. Wright

Reboot: iBible

So I haven't touched iBible since 2003. That's right; seven years. Initially, I wrote iBible in RealBasic because RealBasic offered an IDE that compiled applications for both Classic and OS X platforms. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, nevermind. It's not important. I just felt like I needed to justify why I did it.

I hated RealBasic with a passion. It was clunky, and if you wanted your application to do anything REALLY cool, you had to use a kludge or three thousand. The point is, the code was ugly, it was difficult to maintain and a pain to mess with overall.

So after I had a fairly good set of features, I lost my motivation to work on it.

Fast-forward to today, seven years after I wrote the last line of code for iBible (a program that people are STILL downloading and registering to this day). I have a LOT of ideas for a new version that is faster, more stable, and more importantly, native to OS X - and to the iPhone and iPad. In fact, without tipping my hand here, I have some ideas that are revolutionary, and I'm starting now on recoding iBible from scratch.

Here's some of the stuff I can say: iBible 3 will have:

• The ability to read any versed text. That means it will read any version of the Bible, plus it could potentially read other texts such as the Koran, the Book of Mormon or poetry arranged into numbered chapters and verses.

• The ability to associate notes with that text. That means the Bible could use Strong's definitions for words, the Thompson Chain Reference for deeper study, Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on the Bible and basically any commentary ever written for whatever text you're using.
• User notes. You can comment on any part of the Bible you want, and your notes will stay around. For instance, in my church, when I preach a sermon on a certain range of scripture, I can now associate a note with that range of scripture and save the sermon there forever.

There is a LOT more, but that's all I can say without tipping my hand too much, because some of what I'm doing has been done in NO other Bible program out there. Like the beginning of iBible, I'm adding stuff that I need and have always needed, but couldn't find a program to do it.

Stay with me, I'm hot and heavy on this one.