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In the spirit of Jonathan Edwards' own Miscellanies, a running notebook of reflections, numbered and cross-referenced as thought developed over time. Your entries are saved only on this computer, in this browser — they are never sent anywhere.
In the spirit of Jonathan Edwards' Miscellanies: every entry gets a permanent number, and entries refer to one another as your thought develops over the years. Nothing here is ever sent to any server — your notes are yours alone. Here's the fastest way to get going:
A quick honest note: I'm not a professional software engineer — I built this for my own Bible study and I'm sharing it because I think you'll find it useful too. If something ever breaks or feels rough around the edges, that's me still learning, not you doing something wrong.
This is mainly a desktop app, but you can read your notes on your phone too — see "Using it on a phone" under the Full guide tab for how, and its limits.
Simple is just the numbered stream: write, search, cross-reference. Advanced adds the idea inbox, the library shelf, backups, folder storage, and a few power tools.
Don't want to fill out the whole entry form right now? Simple mode has a Quick Capture box right at the top; Advanced mode has the same thing under inbox. Either way, jot the thought and save it — it sits there until you promote it into a full, numbered entry, or delete it if it didn't pan out.
By default, in this browser on this computer — automatic, nothing to set up. For notes as real files on your hard drive, switch to Advanced and click "Save to folder…" (Chrome and Edge only). Everything then saves to a folder you choose, and keeps working offline. The app also quietly keeps a rolling set of dated backup copies inside that folder — a handful of recent daily snapshots, pruned automatically — as a safety net on top of your own manual backups.
Right at the top of the app, a small status pill always tells you where things stand, in both Simple and Advanced mode: an italic note if you're on browser-only storage (click it to connect a folder), a calm blue confirmation once a folder is connected, or a bold, pulsing reconnect prompt if your browser needs you to re-grant access — browsers do this periodically for security, and it's normal. You never have to go digging through Advanced mode to check; if something needs your attention, it's visible the moment you open the app.
Any entry with a scripture reference shows it as a clickable badge — tap it to read that passage inline, in the King James Version by default, with buttons to switch to the American Standard Version, the Greek New Testament, the Septuagint, or jump out to the LSB, NKJV, or NET. Words that appear in Watson's Bible Dictionary are underlined right in the passage text — tap one for its definition, with a "read full entry" link if it's long. In the Robinson–Pierpont Greek reader, every Greek word is tappable the same way — it shows the word's Strong's number and its definition from Dodson's Greek lexicon.
The A− / A+ buttons near the top control text size for the whole app, including the dictionary popup and the Bible reader — useful for reading on a phone or just easier eyes.
A few keyboard shortcuts work anywhere in the app: press / to jump straight to the search box, n to start a new entry, and Escape to back out of whatever form or modal is open. The moon icon near the guide button switches to a dark theme for reading at night.
The Related entries field when writing a note lets you link it to others you've already written; the entry then shows a "see also" line pointing to them. This works in both directions automatically — if entry 81 links to entry 123, entry 81 will also show "referenced by — no. 123," with no extra work on your part.
This is a single-device notebook at heart: your notes live in the browser of the device you're using, and nothing is ever sent to a server. To move notes to another device, you carry them by hand:
Careful: importing replaces everything on that device with the file's contents. Always export from whichever device has your newest notes.
This is mainly a desktop app — the full library, folder saving, and power tools are built around using a computer. That said, the same app works on iPhone and Android when opened at its web address, and reading your notes there works fine. Phone limitations worth knowing:
By default, a new entry takes the lowest number nothing else is using. So if notes 124, 125, and 126 all get deleted, your next new entry becomes 124 again, not 127 — deleting a note frees its number for reuse right away, rather than retiring it forever.
One thing worth knowing if you cite entries outside the app (writing “see no. 47” in the margin of a Bible, journal, or sermon outline): once a number is reused, it means whatever entry currently holds it, not necessarily the one you originally had in mind. If a number matters enough to write down permanently, the safest habit is to leave that entry in place rather than deleting it later.
You're always free to override the auto-assigned number. In Advanced mode, click directly on any entry's number (the no. … at its left edge) to open it for editing with the number field ready to change, or type a specific number into the entry number field while creating a new entry. Renumbering an entry this way also keeps its "see also" and "referenced by" links pointing at the right place automatically.
You can't reuse a number another current entry already has. If you try, the app offers a lettered version of it instead — e.g. if no. 125 is taken, it'll suggest no. 125a (then 125b, 125c, and so on if that's taken too). Accept the suggestion or cancel and pick a different number yourself.
Separately, decimals like 47.1 still work for slotting a new entry between two existing ones without renumbering either — a older, coarser tool than the lettered-suffix system above, kept for backward compatibility with any entries already numbered that way.
Deleted entries move to a Trash at the bottom of the stream, where you can restore them or delete them forever. An Undo button also appears for a few seconds after each delete.
The shelf (Advanced → library) comes stocked with real, full texts: the King James and American Standard Bibles, the Robinson–Pierpont and Scrivener Greek New Testaments, the Text-Critical English New Testament and the ASV Byzantine Text with Apocrypha, the Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew Old Testament, the SBLGNT Greek New Testament, Watson's Bible Dictionary, Pilgrim's Progress, The Imitation of Christ, and Luther's 95 Theses. Click a spine to open it — books with real text behind them have a Read text tab for an actual in-app reader (Watson's Dictionary gets its own searchable A–Z reader), plus a scrollable list of your own notes underneath. While reading any Bible translation, a small asterisk appears next to any verse you've written a note about — tap it to read the note in place, or jump to it in your notebook. Add your own books or notebooks with the + spine; a shelf that fills up automatically splits into a second shelf underneath rather than scrolling forever.
The greek nt button up top (works in either Simple or Advanced mode) opens a separate resource, not a library book: a fully hyperlinked edition of the Robinson–Pierpont 2026 Byzantine Greek New Testament, published by Guardian Press. It's a PDF, not an in-app reader, but it comes with real navigation built in — a bookmarks panel (book & chapter), a clickable Table of Contents, and a clickable Manuscript Apparatus Variant Unit Index covering 50 significant textual variants with early manuscript evidence — so you can jump straight to any passage without scrolling through its 748 pages.
The King James Version, American Standard Version, Scrivener Textus Receptus, Pilgrim's Progress, The Imitation of Christ, and Luther's 95 Theses are long-established English public-domain texts. The Robinson–Pierpont Greek New Testament is the 2018 edition (RP2018) — specifically release v3.3.2 of the byztxt/byzantine-majority-text project, current as of July 2023, which digitizes Dr. Maurice A. Robinson's own text and is dedicated to the public domain (Unlicense). The Strong's numbers and grammatical parsing shown when you tap a Greek word come from that same byztxt project; the English glosses in that popup come from Jeffrey Dodson's Greek lexicon (also public domain), compiled from the older public-domain lexicons of Abbott-Smith, Berry, Souter, and Strong. Watson's Bible Dictionary is Richard Watson's own public-domain dictionary. The Text-Critical English New Testament (Byzantine Text Version) is © 2026 Robert Adam Boyd, made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license — used here with attribution, including its full set of text-critical footnotes (tap the † mark after a word to read one), which are a core part of what makes this edition distinctive (unedited, so it keeps its "Text-Critical English New Testament"/"Byzantine Text Version" names, which are trademarks of Robert Adam Boyd). The ASV: Byzantine Text with Apocrypha adapts the public-domain American Standard Version to follow the Byzantine/majority New Testament text and adds the Apocryphal books (drawn from the English Revised Version, Brenton's Septuagint, and Gray's translation, restyled to match the ASV); Adam Boyd's changes were dedicated to the public domain in 2021. The Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) is a digital edition of the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete Masoretic manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, and its text is in the public domain. The Strong's numbers and grammatical parsing shown when you tap a Hebrew word come from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project's markup of the WLC (CC BY 4.0, credited to the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project); the English glosses in that popup come from the Strong's Hebrew Dictionary as published in the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (public domain base text, CC BY 4.0 corrections/markup). The SBLGNT (Society of Biblical Literature Greek New Testament) is © Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Its word-by-word morphological tagging comes from the MorphGNT project (James K. Tauber), under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license; the Strong's numbers shown alongside that tagging were matched here by lemma against Dodson's lexicon (see above).
A note on accuracy: all of this — the Greek text itself, its Strong's numbers, its grammatical parsing, and the Dodson definitions — is reproduced as-is from those source projects and is only as accurate as they are. None of it has been independently checked against a print edition or critical apparatus by hand. Treat the tap-to-parse feature as a study aid, not a substitute for a scholarly Greek text or lexicon when precision matters.
A "notebook" — say, a sermon notebook alongside your personal study — is just another item on the shelf: add one from the library with the + spine and set its type to "Notebook" instead of "Book." Opening it shows a stream of just its own entries, with its own "+ add note" button, exactly like opening any other book — the difference is that it’s something you’re writing rather than reading. There is one shared library and one shared numbering sequence for everything: if your last entry anywhere was no. 147, the next new entry — in your personal study or in a notebook — becomes no. 148, exactly like adding a new book to the shelf never restarts the numbering.
Edwards kept a running index to find his own Miscellanies later — this notebook keeps one automatically. Advanced → index shows every entry grouped by topic tag, and every entry grouped by scripture book in canonical order.
Click manage topics next to the topic filter to see every topic you've used, with how many notes use each one. Rename one to match another's exact spelling and the two merge together automatically — handy for cleaning up something like "Genesis 1" and "Genesis1."
Open any entry and click Share quote to download a styled image with its title, a short excerpt, and its number — ready to post.
While writing, focus mode hides everything but the entry form. Your draft also autosaves as you type; if you close the tab or the browser crashes mid-entry, reopening the form offers to restore it.
You can attach more than one photo per entry. And Export bound volume (printable), under Import / Export, produces a styled, year-by-year keepsake page — open it and use your browser's Print → Save as PDF.