Bible Journal

An interface for bible journaling and notetaking.

Bible Journal is an Obsidian community plugin for personal Bible study. It provides offline chapter text (World English Bible), a one-time setup wizard for new vaults, and a mobile-friendly Bible Reader with study notes in the sidebar.

Features

• Setup wizard — copies WEB chapters into ~ Bible/ and creates starter folders
• Bible Reader — chapter picker, prev/next navigation, verse selection
• Study Notes sidebar — notes grouped by chapter, section, or book; structure file support
• One-tap new note — creates a tagged note in 1. Bible verses/ from the current chapter
• Tag search — AND/OR tag queries with optional snapshot saves to ~Tag Searches/

Install

From Obsidian Community Plugins (recommended)

1. Open Settings → Community plugins.
2. Browse and search for Bible Journal.
3. Install and enable the plugin.
4. Open Settings → Bible Journal → Set up my Bible Journal.

Manual install

1. Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.
2. Extract into your vault: .obsidian/plugins/bible-journal/
3. Enable Bible Journal under Community plugins.
4. Run Set up my Bible Journal in plugin settings.

Obsidian's installer only downloads the first three automatically. The setup wizard downloads bible-data.zip from the release URL on first run.

First-time setup

1. Settings → Bible Journal → Set up my Bible Journal
2. Wait while chapter files copy into ~ Bible/ (about 30–90 seconds on mobile)
3. Open a chapter in the Bible Reader and start taking notes

Default vault folders:

Bible text and licensing

• World English Bible (WEB) — public domain.
• Section structure headings — derived from Berean Standard Bible (BSB) USFM, public domain.

Privacy

The plugin does not use telemetry or accounts. First-time setup downloads Bible text from this repository's GitHub release. After setup, everything runs offline.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.