Read the Bible in a year with the Five Day Bible Reading Plan and track your progress in Todoist.
Since 2024, I've been using the Five Day Bible Reading Plan. I like the way that it's somewhat chronological and I've heard good things about it. (In 2023, I did a straight-through reading plan.)
The website provides a free PDF with all the readings organized, but I don't want to use a printed piece of paper to track my readings. I prefer to use an app.
Since I use Todoist to organize my life in general, I put together a script to import my daily reading schedule into Todoist. This way, I can track my readings from my phone or computer.
If you wanted to use a different digital tool to read the same plan, I expect this code could still be useful to you; I extracted the readings into a text file and have Python code to calculate the date for each reading, assuming that you read Monday-Friday each week. (It's easy enough in Todoist to reschedule readings as needed.)
You can use this tool to import the Bible reading schedule into a Todoist project. I suggest creating a new project called "Bible Reading" where all the tasks can be added.
You'll need Python installed to use this tool.
- Get your Todoist API token
- Find the project ID that you want to add the tasks to (this is visible in the URL when browsing projects).
- Clone this repository:
git clone git@github.com:alexcwatt/bible-reading-plan - Install the package:
pip install -e . - Run the importer to add the reading schedule to Todoist:
TODOIST_API_TOKEN=yourtoken TODOIST_PROJECT_ID=yourprojectid todoist-bible-plan
I'm experimenting with building a podcast so I can listen to the reading on days when I can't sit down and read it. The podcast uses the ESV API to pull the MP3 files for each chapter, as well as a Google API to generate other podcast audio (e.g., "Today's reading is Genesis 1-2, Psalm 19, and Mark 1").
I'm not sure that this code is useful to others, but the entrypoint is podcast-bible-plan.