Read a chapter of the Bible and browse to other chapters and books. Take notes on books, chapters, and verses.
Begin by typing a chapter reference, which is a book abbreviation and chapter number. For example, 2Ti2 will take you to Second Timothy chapter 2. Messaging below the field tells you if you've entered an invalid reference, and book choices show below the field as you type. You can click on a choice to select that book and then type the chapter number, or you can type the full chapter reference. Press Show Chapter to read that chapter.
Choose the "Self-Pronouncing" Bible to see pronunciation marks on all proper names, and on a few other words. The system of marking was given by Henry Redpath in The Oxford self-pronouncing Bible of 1897. Refer to his prefatory note from that Bible.
The "Part-of-Speech Tagged" Bible has a tag after each word, showing the word's gramatical part of speech. Refer to the list of POS tags to see all the tags, and read the help on that page to learn about Bible tagging.
Take notes on a book, chapter, or verse. Notes can be tied to a Bible study.
Optionally focus notes on a study or on a verse.
Enter a study ID to view notes only for that study and to forcibly tie new notes to it. If you've already defined studies and given them descriptions then those choices show below the field as you type. You can click on a choice to select it, or you can type the full study ID. For studies without descriptions you must type the full study ID if you want to focus on it. (See the "Studies" section under "Edit Note" below for how to define studies, including how to decide whether to use study descriptions.)
Enter a verse number to view notes only for that verse and to forcibly tie new notes to it.
Leave this field blank to view notes regardless of the study ID or verse number, and to tie new notes to any verse and any study.
A note is either for a single verse, for the chapter as a whole, or for the book as a whole. Select one of these three to set notes to that scope. Chapter notes and verse notes are available only while reading that chapter, and book notes are available while reading any chapter of the book.
Create a note by opening the Edit Note area, typing into the Note field, and pressing the Save button. If notes are scoped to the verse level as described in the "Scope" section above, then you'll also need to pick the verse number. While the Edit Note area is open, clicking on an old note pulls it in for editing. If you want to always open the Edit Note area when clicking on an old note, turn on "Notes Auto-Open" in the tools/Settings page.
Notes wrap to new lines to fit the width of the edit area, and the height of the edit area grows to fit all the wrapped lines, so as you're typing don't press ENTER unless you want to divide a note into paragraphs. Paragraphs get a blank line between them, deleting the blank line joins two into one, and typing into the blank line starts a new paragraph. This all helps notes look right when you read them in the edit area, when you pull them into Bible studies, and when you turn your studies into PDFs, but you can turn paragraph editing off in the tools/Settings page.
Quote and apostrophe characters are changed into their so-called curly versions as you type. These are considered more correct in published writing, and notes are intended to be used in Bible studies which are intended to be published as PDFs. Like the paragraph editing described above, this can be turned off in the tools/Settings page.
Use the Study area if you're not already focused on a study as described in the "Focus" section above, and you want to tie notes to a Bible study. Studies need a unique ID and can have a description. Define whatever studies will help you find and organize your notes. For example, a topical study of the different groups God refers to as elect might use the ID TheElect and have the description "Who Are the Elect?" An expository study of Second Timothy chapter two verses eleven through fourteen might use the ID 2Ti2:11-14 and have no description. A general observation you make while reading might not be tied to any study.
As you type into the Study ID field any IDs you've already defined with descriptions show below the field, like they do in the "Focus" section described above. You can click on a choice or type the complete study ID. Create a new study by typing an unused ID, but you can't create new IDs that are too similar to exisiting ones, if you also give the studies descriptions. For example, if you've already defined the ID TheElect you can't define the new ID the_elect, if both these studies have descriptions. If you try to save that second ID you'll get a message that a similar ID already exists.
Changing the study ID of an old note copies the note to the new study. If you want to keep only the copied note then delete the original note after copying.
If you've focused on a study using the "Focus" section described above, new notes are always tied to that study and you can't copy existing notes to a new study, so there's no need to open the Study area if you're focused on a study.
Giving a study a description helps you find that study later because it pops up as a choice as you type its ID. Descriptions also help you keep all related notes under a single ID because they stop you from creating IDs that are too similar to each other. On the other hand, studies you don't give descriptions to don't clutter the list of choices as you type, and they don't stop you from creating any IDs you'd like. Use or omit descriptions case-by-case as you see fit.
Finally, when you use the tools/Generate page to turn a study into PDF files, the description becomes the title of the study. For studies without descriptions the study ID is the title.
If the Notes panel is open and not focused on a study, click in the Chapter area to focus the notes on the clicked-on verse. If notes are focused on a study, and if the Edit Note area is also open, click a verse to edit the note for that study and verse. If you want the Notes panel and/or the Edit Note area to always open whenever a verse is clicked, turn on "Notes Auto-Open" in the tools/Settings page.
View and edit chapter summaries. For each chapter there's a default summary and several others for different page and font sizes. These are meant to show in the page headers of custom PDF Bibles you create using the tools/Generate page, but that's not working yet. You can save summaries here and see them here when you read the chapter, but they're not part of PDF Bible generation yet.
There's one Save button for saving all the edits to all the summaries. Pressing this button saves any summaries you've filled in and deletes any you've blanked out.