Home Page
The Homepage is opened when creating a new tab/screen, or clicking the house icon on the bottom left of your screen. The Home Page gives quicker access to the most used pages and information. Here is a list of what you can find from top to bottom. (If you do not have all of them, scroll to the bottom and click 'edit home screen'. You may enable or turn off different catagories that way.)
Recommended - The first thing you will see is a large widget image carousel. This will show recent or upcoming broadcasts, major events, special talks by apostles, and videos.
Continue Reading - The last three chapters, bookmarks, or topics you visited will appear here.
Come, Follow Me - A quick link to that week's lesson
Quick Links - Links to scriptures, General Conference, and Music collections.
Relief Society Lesson - The talk for the lesson that week (or Sunday School/ priesthood equivalent)
STUDY TOOLS, DAILY STUDY AND STUDY PLANS IN NEXT SECTION!!
Quote of the Day - Shareable quotes from General Conference talks. Can be turned into a widget on your homescreen!
Verse of the Day - A verse of scripture from that week's Come, Follow Me.
Tip of the Week - Varies from technical tips to spiritual advice.
Study Plans
Plan out how often you want to study, set reminders, and mark your progress. A great way to set goals! To make a study plan, follow these steps.
Select 'Start New Plan' or the three dots and 'Manage Plans'.
If you selected 'Manage Plans', click the blue plus symbol in the bottom right corner. If not, ignore this step.
Select which book of scripture, conference session, or other collection you would like to study.
Set a schedule to ready daily or weekly. You can allow longer chapters or sections to be split, or read a full chapter or more each time. You can adjust how long you want it to take as well.
Set a daily reminder. Click the blue NEXT button.
Select the Create Button! Now you can mark off what you have read! You can also click a section to begin reading, and then mark it off by clicking the arrow on the top left.
If you need to edit your plan, select the pencil icon in the top right.
Study Plans
Plan out how often you want to study, set reminders, and mark your progress. A great way to set goals! To make a study plan, follow these steps.
Select 'Start New Plan' or the three dots and 'Manage Plans'.
If you selected 'Manage Plans', click the blue plus symbol in the bottom right corner. If not, ignore this step.
Select which book of scripture, conference session, or other collection you would like to study.
Set a schedule to ready daily or weekly. You can allow longer chapters or sections to be split, or read a full chapter or more each time. You can adjust how long you want it to take as well.
Set a daily reminder. Click the blue NEXT button.
Select the Create Button! Now you can mark off what you have read! You can also click a section to begin reading, and then mark it off by clicking the arrow on the top left.
If you need to edit your plan, select the pencil icon in the top right.
Study Tools - Annotations
Study Tools include three sub-catagories: Annotations, Tags, and Notebooks.
An Annotation can be made anywhere on the app by long pressing and highlighting the desired text. It will look like the image on the right.
From this menu, you have the following options:
Color and Style changes - select the color of your choice, or change a highlight to an underline
Note - record your thoughts by taking a short note. This will appear in your footnotes (swipe right from the very edge of your screen to view all footnotes and annotations in a chapter).
Tag - Tagging is a way to organize your highlights. You can create a new tag at any time, and find your annotations saved under a certain tag by selecting the Tags section in Study Tools on the Home page.
Link - create a link to another scripture, conference talk, or topic. This will also appear in footnotes.
Copy - Copies the selected text to your clipboard.
Share - Copies a link to send on social media or text
Search - Find citations of that exact verse or phrase in conference talks or other scripture
Define - best used for individual words, will open Oxford or Webster's Dictionary on the web
Remove - Deletes the annotation
Study Tools - Notebooks
Another way to organize annotations is through Notebooks. Unlike tags, there is an option within a notebook to add a stand alone note. This could be a diary entry, your testimony, or a notes from a church meeting. Outside of a notebook, notes must be attatched to an annotation. To make a notebook, follow these steps.
Under 'Study Tools', select 'Notebooks'.
Tap the blue '+' symbol in the bottom right, and name your notebook (ie. "Journal" or "Christ Study")
The new notebook should appear as an option on that same screen. To add to the notebook, click the one you wish to open and tape the blue '+' sign on the bottom right.
This creates a stand alone note. You can add tags or links to this note by selecting the three dots in the top right corner. From that menu you may also print the entry, or add to another notebook. This will not remove the note from the current notebook, but rather copy it into the new one.
You can add an annotation to your notebook at anytime by selecting that option in the annotation menu (see above)
Screens
Located on the bottom right of the app, the Screens feature allows you to have more than one tab open. This can be helpful when preparing lessons, taking notes, or avoiding loosing your spot.
To open a new screen, select the blue '+' button. This will open a new screen to the Homepage.
To switch between screens, click the screens button on the bottom right. This button will also have a number; this is the number of screens you have open. Click the screen you wish to visit. Your current spot will be saved!
To close a screen, click the 'X' in the top right corner of each screen widget. To close all screens, select the three dots in the top right corner and Close All Screens. This will close all screens except your current one.
Best Resources
Aside from Scriptures, Come, Follow Me and Conference Talks, the Gospel Library App allows access to many other resources. Here are my favorites, pictured on the right.
Books and Lessons - Includes Primary, Youth, and Adult Lessons from this year and previous years, as well as the Teachings of Presidents book collection (which you can listen to!) and guidebooks.
Topics and Questions - Summarizes dozens of topics, from simple to complex, in a clean, easy to navigate, and simple manner.
Church History - Includes answers to Church History questions, the Saints novels, and all accounts of the First Vision