Jeffrey C. Long

I use a program called DevonThink to organize all the various documents, thoughts and research I do. It is a freeform database with the ability to handle multiple document types and to make links to other documents in the database. The more I use it the deeper it gets.

I also use a program called MacSword for Bible study. It has many modules to download for commentaries, Bible translations, dictionaries, lexicons, etc. A windows version can be found

While using it recently, I discovered that if I pasted a copy of the text from Macsword into Devonthink, the hyperlinks to the verse in MacSword were still alive in Devon. For example, if I pasted the text of Ephesians 1:13 into Devonthink, there would be hyperlink verse number preceding the text. If I clicked on that hyperlink, MacSword would launch and that verse would pop open.

It didn’t take long to realize that I could type in a link in Devonthink, make it active, and it would always jump to MacSword. This is a remarkable feature. To do so, you type sword://KJV/Ephesians20%1:13, and then from the Devonthink menu, click “Make link.”

The next step is to hopefully have an applescript that will take the text “Ephesians 1:13″ or “KJV Ephesians 1:13″ and automatically turn it into a Macsword link. I’ve asked the techies at Devon-technologies for help, and maybe they’ll have time.

Hope this is useful to more people then myself. I think it’s a great tool for infomanagement and for linking to the Bible from within a document.