OK, I'm after feedback from anyone who uses computers in planning/printing/projecting church liturgy. I'm contemplating writing a new app to help do this, as all the existing ones I've found seem to be lacking.
Here's my idea - or a quick mockup thereof. I'm thinking of something similar to
Visual Liturgy, but for Mac and supporting data projectors. Opinions would be great!
This is the main window. You can see the items that make up the service in the column on the left. Clicking on one lets you view/edit it in the pane on the right. The overview/detailed control relates to templates - I plan to allow iLife style templates of common services, and the overview mode would only show in the list the placeholders for things that change (eg hymns, readings) and hide the liturgy bits.
This is the library pallette. You can search the database of songs, liturgy elements or bible verses. Once you have found one, simply drag it into your document. You can also drag the other way, to add things to the library.
The 'Blank' tab lets you add a blank song/liturgy element to the document, if the item you want is not in the database.
This is a sample presentation display - it'll look much nicer than this 5 minute photoshop mockup, of course! Notice how it splits the service elements intelligently over slides - the verse of a hymn is on a slide of its own.
If anyone knows of software that already does this, please let me know. If not, it would be great to hear opinions! (Keep religious discussion to another thread please.)
Amorya
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