Lampstand, as Gabe built it
What Lampstand gets right is restraint. The verse stands alone in beautiful type, and every action under it is named in a word, not only an icon: Commentary, Videos, Ask a question, Whole chapter.
Those four ideas, plus Gabe's later wish to link out to sites like Bible Hub the way Berean links to David Guzik, are what this proposal carries into Examine.
Where each idea lands
| Lampstand's idea | Where it lives in Examine | Built from |
|---|---|---|
| One verse, large and quiet | The centre of Examine, as today, with the Greek beneath it word by word | The existing ring REUSE |
| Cross references as a row | A row of chips under the verse; the full list stays in the right panel | Today's cross-reference data REUSE NEW ROW |
| Look before you're taught | The left panel opens on four questions and a place to write what you see | Examine's "This verse" panel REUSE |
| Videos | A Teachers tab on the right: an approved list for the passage, a privacy-enhanced player on a tap, and open search as a plain link out | New NEW TAB |
| Links to Bible Hub and others | An Elsewhere tab: Enduring Word, Bible Hub, its commentaries, Blue Letter Bible, StudyLight, Bible Gateway, each at this verse | Today's Guzik and Blue Letter Bible links REUSE, four more sites NEW TAB |
| Commentary | The right panel's Commentary tab | Other voices and the commentators REUSE |
| Ask a question | "Ask the Partner" in the dock | The AI layer REUSE |
| Back, Forward, Whole chapter | A dock along the bottom with every action named: Previous verse, Commentary, Teachers, Elsewhere, Ask the Partner, Whole chapter, Next verse | Today's ‹ › buttons and Read view REUSE NEW DOCK |
A fourth source joins the provenance legend: violet for Elsewhere, anything that opens or plays from another site.
iPad and Mac, then the phone
Tap a screen to open it full size. John 1:1, King James, the Greek from the Textus Receptus. Lesson titles and teachers are placeholders in brackets until a real list is chosen.
1 · The verse firstLook for yourself on the left, the cross-reference row under the verse, the named dock along the bottom.
2 · TeachersThe approved list, the player on a tap, open search as a link out.
3 · ElsewhereSix sites at this verse; the word in focus on the left, as today.
4 · Phone · TeachersThe verse pinned, the helps taking turns below it.
5 · Phone · ElsewhereThe same six sites, sized for a thumb.
Every new piece has a phone shape
The larger screens are designed first, but nothing goes on them that has no place on a phone. Each new piece is one instrument, built once, that renders at a side panel's width and at a phone's.
Look for yourself first
On a phone it is the Note tab, and the first thing the deck shows on a new verse.
The cross-reference row
A chip row under the pinned verse that scrolls sideways; "all" opens the Refs tab.
Teachers and Elsewhere
Two more tabs on the deck's rail. Same content, one help at a time.
The dock
Becomes the thumb bar: previous, Ask the Partner, next. The rest live on the rail, and Whole chapter is the Read tab.
What we'd decide together
- Who keeps the approved Teachers list, and how a teacher gets on it.
- Which sites belong in Elsewhere, and in what order.
- Whether the named dock replaces the AI bar, or sits above it.
- Which comes first in the build: iPad and Mac, or the phone.