Sunday

Sermon notes that keep the recording.

One page per message, filed by who preached it. Type "Romans 8:28" and the verse drops in by itself. Mark a moment and, on Tuesday, tap it to hear exactly what was said.

iPhone, iPad and Android. Recordings stay on your device, and on iPhone and iPad, in your own iCloud.

A sermon note in The Pillar with the speaker, title, notes and a recording

Type a reference, get the verse

Write "John 3:16" in your notes, as you would anyway, and the whole verse is fetched and dropped in — in the translation you were reading. Already typed the notes? "Find references in my notes" reads back through them and pulls in every passage you mentioned.

Record without leaving the page

The record button is inside the note. Pause for the announcements and resume for the message; record as many parts as the morning needs. Playback has lock-screen controls, so it works in the car.

Mark the moment

Tap Mark while recording and a timestamp chip lands in your notes. Later, tap the chip and the recording jumps to that second. You choose which moments matter, instead of every line being stamped.

Typing a scripture reference in a sermon note and the verse appearing
The sermon notes list, grouped by speaker

Filed by preacher

Every message by the same speaker sits together, most recent first, so a series is a series and a visiting speaker's one Sunday is easy to find again.

A canvas for the diagram

When the outline is a drawing — the tabernacle, a timeline, the three arrows — the sermon has a freehand canvas on iPad. Sketch it with the Pencil or a finger, and it stays with the note.

Yours to keep

Export any note, or all of them, as Markdown: your writing in full, and every public-domain passage quoted in full. Nothing lives on a server we run.

And on Monday

The notes lead back into the text.

Every passage the preacher cited is listed under the note with its text, so on Monday you can open the chapter, tap the verse, and read the commentaries, the cross-references and the Greek or Hebrew behind it. A sermon note is the start of a study, not the end of one.

Highlights and verse notes made while reading live in the same Library, searchable by text, by tag and by the verse they're attached to.

So Sunday isn't gone by Tuesday.

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