How to Set Up a Daily Bible Reading Plan Completely in Obsidian

I've used Obsidian for personal Bible Study since I first installed it 3 years ago.
In this video, I walk through how I set up my Chronological Bible Reading Plan Note and show you how you can track your own Daily Bible Reading in your Daily Notes.
The Chronological Bible Reading Plan note that I show in this video (and the accompanying custom CSS file & callout types) are all available for free in the latest version of my Obsidian University Starter Vault.
GET MY FREE STARTER VAULT (INCLUDES MY CHRONOLOGICAL READING PLAN NOTE & UPDATED DAILY NOTE TEMPLATE FILE): www.obsidianuniversity.com/vault
0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Setting Up the Daily Reading
1:31 - Original Language Links
2:10 - Custom CSS for Bible Reading
3:05 - Template Links to Daily Readings
3:48 - Obsidian Tasks Setup
4:59 - Daily Note Template Query
6:15 - Custom Callouts
6:52 - Force Reading Mode
7:28 - Outro
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
🧰 Kingdom Study Tools - github.com/gapmiss/kingdom-st...
⚙️ Obsidian Tasks Plugin - github.com/obsidian-tasks-gro...
🎥 • How to Use Templates i...
⚙️ Callout Manager Plugin - github.com/eth-p/obsidian-cal...
⚙️ Force Note View Mode Plugin - github.com/bwydoogh/obsidian-...
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[@imgeffrey]

I am by no means religious. Yet, this workflow makes me want to read the bible from front to back. Truly. Great video! Good pacing. Clearly explained. I will borrow some bits and pieces of this workflow for my own studies. Thanks!

[@MikeSchmitz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@chandler5450]

I did this similar to Things 3 and it made me read it front to back for the first time ever in my life. Also within 180 days. Crazy to think about it

[@MikeSchmitz]

@@chandler5450 A reading plan was how I first read through the whole Bible too 🙂But not in 180 days, that's impressive!

[@tfthacker]

Another excellent video and workflow. Thank you, Mike. Also, the Strange New Worlds plugin is a great companion to large religious texts if you link them from your notes. Sorry for the self-promotion, but this is one of the purposes of developing SNW.

[@MikeSchmitz]

Thanks for the kind words, and no apology needed! That’s a great plugin, I wish it had existed when I first started using Obsidian as that’s exactly how I used to link things in Roam Research. By the time I came across it, I was pretty entrenched in my verse-as-note format and I still use that for a couple other workflows (including verse tagging). But if I was setting it up for the first time I would definitely start with SNW 😊

[@d6h597]

Thank you very much for your work

[@MikeSchmitz]

Glad you liked it 🙂

[@BWentland]

Great video Mike!

[@MikeSchmitz]

Thanks! Glad you liked it 😊

[@rmbh]

Thanks for this video again. I shall be using it to study the biggest story "Mahabharat" in obsidian.

[@MikeSchmitz]

Glad it was helpful 😊

[@Mark4Jesus]

Awesomeness!!!!!!!

[@Mark4Jesus]

This is going on my to-do list!

[@MikeSchmitz]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@cvasanthk]

Thanks Mike. This is such a useful video outlining briefly how to set up daily reading habits. Two questions after setting it up the way described. 1. how to add the cssclasses in YAML to all the chapters ? Is there a way to add it to all in one go? 2. How can I create my own reading plan a. with a start date which is different than 1st Jan and b. with a mix of OT+NT? is there a tool/ way to generate a reading plan ? Also I see in the pdf shared there is Ps. for Psalms, how did you create the chronological plan with the chapter names as per the Chapter names described in kingdom study.

[@MikeSchmitz]

The easiest way to add changes to a bunch of files that I know of is to use BBEdit on Mac and regular expression to edit a bunch of files at once, but be careful! You could easily destroy things.
Re: making your own plan, it’s a pain 😂 I did it by hand, but it took me several days. You could theoretically edit it to make your own plan, but it’s pretty manual. Not sure of a way to automate that unfortunately 😞

[@cvasanthk]

@@MikeSchmitz That's quite a lot of manual efforts. Anyways, thanks for your response !