New ooBible Design

by colin on January 26, 2011

The never sleeping (true for most days) ooBible team proudly releases the new (yet again) ooBible website!

  • Better Balance Between Reading and Annotation
    Design focus shifted from a purely reading experience to a better balance of reading and annotation. We previously hid all the cool journaling, notes and highlights searching, inside the journal menu. While it was there, not many people knew it. We believe this redesign provides greater clarity.
  • Searching Highlights
    The old journal search box allowed you to search both notes and highlights. But you wouldn’t  know it unless you really played with it. ‘Highlights’ now rightfully has its very own search box. Users (you) have told us you use highlights to bookmark your favorite verses. We hear you and now you can search it in all its glory.
  • Metrics and Accountability
    The biggest problem for many of us is not that we don’t have a reading plan or can’t find one. It’s that we can’t easily measure our progress and build accountability through transparency. In other words, if I don’t know how much I’ve read, when I read it and how often I read, I can’t track my progress weekly. So we’re here to help you. This new version tracks your reading on a weekly basis and also compares your reading frequency to the average of all our users. Track whether you’re below, at par or read more than others. But what’s the point if nobody sees my progress or lack-of progress, you say. Well fret not, the social piece of ooBible is coming soon and this new design is step one in that direction.

In addition to the three main features above, we’ve fixed lots and lots of bugs. Too many to name, we’re ashame to say. But we trust you’ll enjoy ooBible one bit more in your next visit.

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