Reading planner app

There is a plethora of reading planners for religious books, but a dearth of them for regular books, so I thought I'd try the App Requests page.

The core functionality of the app is as follows.

Input:

• Book title
• Name author
• Book series name (optional)
• Number of first page you will read*
• Number of last page you will read
• Days “off” (when you can’t/won’t read)
• Also input, based on what you want to achieve**:
  • pages-per-day to read, or;
  • expected date when you finish reading the book.

Output:
The page number you need to reach today to achieve goal 1 or 2. It will also show you when you can be expected to finish reading, and the amount of pages you will read today.

When you finish reading for the day, you will input the number of the page you finished reading, so that the app knows on which page you will start tomorrow.***

The new day will not turn over automatically, because sometimes you might read past 00:00, and still want the page to count for the previous day.

When you are ahead of schedule:

1. if you chose a finish date, then the number of pages you have to read will lower (lower average pages to read to finish on time);
2. If you chose an amount of pages per day to read, then the date will move forward (closer to the present) based on how much you’ve read ahead

The reverse will happen if you’re behind schedule.

(Optional)
Keep a log of all reading days, with the pages to be on for each day, with the ability to save it with date of creation as a text file. The log will show the expected finish day, as well as the pages-per-day count.

Notes:
*In omnibuses, the second book might start on page 300. If the app assumes that 1 is always the starting point, then it will tell you that you have already read a certain amount of the book, even though you’re only interested in the portion you specified. This is also important when a book starts on page 5.

** You can change what the goal will be at any time, including which of the two goals (date or pages-per-day) you want to use.

***This as opposed to inputting the page you will read tomorrow, because that will conflict with the end of the book, since there won’t be any more pages to read, and the app would think that you would still have one page left to read; the last page.


If nothing else, thanks for at least reading the post in full.

 

Could you give me a link to the app you found? I'm afraid I had no luck in finding it.

 

I've tried navigating the app, but there's no English translation, so I'm guessing as to what everything does.

After some lucky guesses I did manage to add a book, but you're right in that it doesn't have the planning features I mentioned.

Still, it's always good to know that there are people out there trying to make such apps.

 

I am eagerly awaiting the news.

 

I like what you've done so far. I would have never thought of using a database to pull information about the book I want to read.

I did notice that the options in the drop down menu (for Planning Method) are very close to one another, so that I sometimes select the wrong one. I also always see a "hello world!" page when I exit the app.

But considering that it's a first beta, it't already very functional.

 

I think you've got a handle on it pretty well (man, I have been reading too much Sherlock Holmes lately, my syntax is way too formal).

A few things do come to mind:

At the moment, the app only mentions that the daily target was met or not, but not by how much it was exceeded (it's always great to know when I've read past the goal, and by how much. It works as an incentive to read on, but also lets me know if I can afford to slack off the next day, if I choose to).

It also only tells me how many pages I need to read, without telling me which page I'm reading towards.

Something along the lines of "Target (page number) met/not met" and "Target (page number) exceeded by (amount of pages)" is what I have in mind, but I don't know how that would work out in the app, so whatever works best is always better.


And something odd: When I update the page number and press "enter" on the keyboard, the quick page log stays on screen. I have to press the Back button to get it to go away.

If easy (and not time consuming), the ability to add a custom book cover would also be great, but that is so low a priority that it barely registers as an annoyance, just me being nitpicky.

Beyond that the apps is very easy to use, and very pleasant to use as well.

ETA: After editing a variable of a book and pressing Save (and going to the main page of the app), when I want to exit the app itself, I first get the edit page again, and then the main page again, before I can actually exit the app. When I edit a book more than once, exiting the app gets me a succession of alternatingly the edit page and the main page multiple times before exiting the app.

By exiting the app, I mean pressing the back button on the navigation bar.

 

Is it possible to use the circle as a place to put a number (I wouldn't know which number)? Would that even look good/make sense? Or would it just be confusing?

 

The fixes did work, by the way. The random navigation issue is gone.