Have you thought about adding some reading plans to your Scripture app but decided that it is too hard or time consuming?
I am helping an intern build some Scripture apps for NTs that were completed a while ago. To give the apps more value, we decided that we wanted to include a variety of reading plans. To save time, I decided to employ ChatGPT 4o as an assistant in the development of the reading plans.
I started a new prompt and told Chat (that’s my not-so-creative name for my chat) that I wanted to have it develop some reading plans and would be giving it some encodings and other information before I would give it the first plan description.
I told it that the plans are encoded in a text file with the following markers. Name = \id (e.g., Acts14), Title = \title (e.g., Acts 14-day Plan), Description = \descr (e.g, \descr Read through the book of Acts in 14 days.), Day = \day (e.g., \day 2), Reference range = \ref (e.g., \ref Act 1 \ref Act 2:1-19).
I then uploaded a list of Bible books with the appropriate 3-letter abbreviations and told Chat what the document was.
I was then ready to start creating my reading plans. I would tell Chat what book(s) or topic was going to be used and the pertinent information. So for a 14-day plan on reading Luke, I asked Chat to "create a 14-day plan reading through the book of Luke. The ID is “Luk14”. The title is “Luke 14-day Plan”. The description is “Read through the book of Luke in 14 days”
Chat then quickly created the plan which I was able to copy into a text document and save in my Reading Plans folder for the intern to include in all of the apps he will be building for us.
In addition to simple “book” plans, I was able to create a 5-day Advent plan (one day a week) which Chat creatively included some sections in Rev 21 and 22 for the last day which was unexpected but nice, a 40-day Lent reading, a 7-day Christmas story plan, an 8-day Holy Week plan, and a 30-day miracles plan.
While a few plans needed run a second time because Chat didn’t include the full reference range I wanted, I was able to create 12 reading plans in about an hour.