Start reading in Harvous
Open a chapter and your notes and highlights for it are already there. How the reader fits into how you already study.
If threads are the first feature I’d show a new user, and scripture pills are the second, the reader is the third—and it’s the one that ties the other two together.
A lot of people don’t realize Harvous has a reader at all. It’s easy to miss if you’ve only ever typed a reference into a note. So here’s the two-minute version.
Two ways in
You can get to a chapter two ways: pick a book from the canon grid, then a chapter, or type a reference the same way you’d type one in a note—Romans 8, John 15—and open it straight into the full reader.
Either way lands you on the same screen: the chapter, full width, in whichever of the 11 translations you prefer. It’s cached, so it still works on a plane or in a basement with no signal.
The margin is the whole point
Open a chapter you’ve studied before and the left margin already shows you which verses have a note attached. Tap one and you’re back in it—no searching, no scrolling through old threads trying to remember what you called it.
This is the same highlight layer as the rest of Harvous. Highlight a phrase while reading and it’s not a separate, disconnected highlight—it’s the same one you’d see if you opened that verse from a note instead. Nothing to reconcile later.
Writing without leaving the page
If something’s worth writing down mid-chapter, start the note right there. It’s the same note-writing experience as anywhere else in Harvous—just started from the page you’re reading instead of the sidebar.
That’s really the whole feature. Not a second app bolted onto the first. Just another way into the same notes.
Where to start
Open a book you’re already partway through—Romans, Genesis, wherever you left off—and read the next chapter in the reader instead of wherever you normally would. See what shows up in the margin. Add one note from the page instead of the sidebar.
That’s it. If you want the thinking behind why this exists at all, why Harvous has a reader now is the companion piece.
