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<desc>Creating a journal or prayer list.</desc>
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<title type='text'>Xiphos</title>
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<name>Andy Piper</name>
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<credit type="author" its:translate="no">
<name>Pierre Benz</name>
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<credit type="author" its:translate="no">
<name>Dr Peter von Kaehne</name>
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<credit type="author" its:translate="no">
<name>Karl Kleinpaste</name>
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<credit type="author" its:translate="no">
<name>Matthew Talbert</name>
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<title>Journals and Prayer Lists</title>
<p><app>Xiphos</app> supports user-created and -editable modules to contain
general content. Initially conceived as simple prayer lists, they have
expanded to include daily journals and topic-outline content. The user can
maintain prayer lists, or prepare sermons, or write any structured content
desired.</p>
<p>To enable prayer list and journal support, see the Preferences dialog as
previously described. There, in <guiseq><gui>General</gui><gui> Options
</gui></guiseq>, check the item labeled <gui>Enable Prayer Lists</gui>.
You will see a new item appear at the bottom of the sidebar's module list for
"Prayer Lists/Journals".</p>
<p>Right-click on this entry, and you will be offered a context menu to create
new modules. All the offered options are of the same type, but what is
offered is a variety of templates from which to work. There are 6 templates
at this time.</p>
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<p>Their structure is the same, but the offered templates provide a variety of
hints regarding ways to organize content. <gui>Simple</gui> is trivial, and
can be considered a mental Post-It note. <gui>Subject</gui> is useful as
a more organized version.
<gui>Monthly</gui> provides a per-month structure in which to track needed
content.
<gui>Daily Journal</gui> is a full 365-day calendar in which to track a
personal journal or ongoing prayer needs.
<gui>Outlined Topic</gui> is a full, expandable outline suitable for topics
and subtopics.
<gui>Book/Chapter</gui> is a book and chapter outline from Genesis through
Revelation.</p>
<p>Journals and prayer lists have the structure of a general book: If simply
selected for display from the module list, they will appear in the usual
subwindow for general books.</p>
<p>Editing a journal or prayer list is done by right-clicking the module name
to get its context menu, whose middle item is <gui>Open in Editor</gui>. The
sections and subsections will be listed in the left margin. Click one, and
the editor navigates to that section. The context menu on right-click of
section keys provides for adding, deleting, and editing the names of sections
and subsections.</p>
<p>If the general book subwindow is currently displaying the journal or prayer
list being edited, it will synchronize with new content when <gui>Save</gui>
is used.</p>
<p>As mentioned, these user-edited modules are in effect general books. This
means they can be viewed in any Sword Project application. Thus, you can use
these modules immediately in <app>BibleTime</app>, for example; or from the
Module Manager's <gui>Maintenance</gui> page, you can archive a zip file to
copy to a Windows system where you can then install the zip content as a
module for the Windows user interface. Few other Sword Project applications
provide for editing these modules, however, meaning that they will appear in
such other applications as just ordinary general books.</p>
<p>In the future, it is planned that a module sharing facility will become
available, by which user-edited modules such as these can be uploaded to
become available to a wide audience. The current install repository facility
will be expanded to provide upload as well as the existing download capability
in order to support this. Thus, users will be able to share their sermons,
Bible studies, and other personally-authored content with other Sword
application users.</p>
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