Study Plans is a new system inside Iron Rod AI that turns scripture study into a daily habit you can actually keep. It pairs curated reading paths with proven study techniques from the Church's own manual — so every day has a reading, a skill, and a reason to open the scriptures.

Why Study Plans Exists

Most people who set scripture reading goals don't fail because they stop caring. They fail because the friction is in the wrong place — deciding what to read, remembering where they left off, wondering if they're getting anything out of it. Study Plans was built to remove all of that. You pick a path, and every day the app has one reading and one study skill waiting for you. The verse text is already on the page. The technique — asking questions, looking for patterns, likening unto yourself — comes from the Church's Scripture Study — The Power of the Word manual. You don't need to look anything up. You don't need to click anything to start studying.

Four Tabs, One Place

When you open Study Plans, you'll see four tabs across the top:

Study Paths is the showcase. These are curated journeys I've built — each one pairs scripture passages with rotating study techniques from the Church manual so you're not just reading but learning how to read. They're grouped into shelves:

• Start here — Foundations of Scripture Study, a 7-day introduction to eight study skills. If you've never used the Church's scripture study manual, this is where to begin.
• Topical deep dives — One-week journeys into a single theme: the Atonement, the Holy Ghost, the sacrament, temple preparation, grief and hope, and Easter. Each one pairs scripture with recent General Conference talks.
• Read the Book of Mormon — Cover-to-cover at your pace: 30 days, 3 months, or 12 months, plus a 14-day "Power Chapters" highlights tour.
• Come Follow Me prep — A one-week primer on using Iron Rod's CFM features alongside the Church curriculum.

Below the curated paths, Build Your Own gives you two more ways to start: pick a Come Follow Me week and spread the readings across however many days you want, or describe your own study — a topic, a book, a chapter range — and let AI draft a day-by-day plan with real references and Church-manual techniques.

Study Calendar is your operational home. It opens on a day view — today's items across all your active plans, with left and right arrows to step through days. Switch to month view for the full grid: color-coded items, study-day chips (pick the weekdays you study), and per-plan rescheduling. This is where the multi-plan workflow lives — set your study days to Monday-Wednesday-Friday, reschedule one plan to fit; change to Tuesday-Thursday, reschedule another. Two plans, different rhythms, one calendar. Timezone, reminders, and study-day preferences all live here too.

My Plans shows every plan you've created — active plans with progress bars and next-scheduled-date, archived plans behind a disclosure. Click any plan to open its detail page with the full day-by-day checklist, notes, and Study with AI.

Settings is the lightest tab — it points you back to the calendar for timezone and reminders, and links to the Church's scripture study manual that the techniques are drawn from.

What a Day Looks Like

Each day in your plan has:

• Scripture text — the actual verses, loaded from Iron Rod's scripture library with footnote markup. Tap any footnote to see cross-references; tap a reference to send it straight to AI chat.
• One study technique — a specific skill from the Church manual (questions, definitions, patterns, likening, connecting words, annotations, antecedents, memorization). The plan rotates through them so you build different skills over time.
• Prompts — three to four specific questions or instructions for that day's passage and technique.
• Study with AI — opens a conversation right inside the plan. The AI breaks the passage into sections, explains the doctrine, and answers follow-ups. Your chat history stays with the plan.
• Personal notes — write your thoughts, auto-saved on each day.
• Checkbox — mark the day done. Progress bar updates live.

You also get optional daily email reminders (set your time and timezone on the calendar tab), a study streak counter, and the ability to reschedule or archive plans when life changes.

Why This Exists

President Russell M. Nelson taught: "I promise that as you prayerfully study the Book of Mormon every day, you will make better decisions — every day."

Every day is the hard part. Not because people don't want to — because the logistics get in the way. Study Plans is my attempt to remove the logistics entirely. The reading is chosen. The method is assigned. The text is on the page. The AI is one tap away. All you have to do is show up.

Study Plans is available to all Iron Rod AI users — free and paid. Open the Study Hub, tap Study Plans, and start a path.