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Before installing an update: fully close the app first — right-click the tray icon (bottom-right of Windows, near the clock) and choose Quit The Inflictor. Closing the window with ✕ only tucks it into the tray, and an update can't replace a running app. When reporting an issue: please include the version number shown in the app's bottom-left corner, and report one thing at a time.
New to the stage? A quick guide to running thy day.
When a med/reminder is due, also send an email to your account — handy when you're away from the computer. Needs the app running (it sends at the exact time).
A record of thy completed acts, day by day.
Daily arrives around 9 in the evening; weekly on Sunday eve. Sent to thine account email.
The Inflictor helps you plan a daily routine and stick to it — and, above all, it bends to your real day instead of nagging you to match a plan. Lay out your day's activities, then check each one done — or not — as the day goes on.
Slept in? Enter the time you actually woke in the Woke up today at bar and tick Adjust schedule — the whole day slides to start from your real wake-up. Need to stop partway? Hit Pause Activities Now; when you're ready, press Resume and the rest of your day picks up from this moment. Nothing is "late" — the schedule simply moves with you. It celebrates what you get done and doesn't punish off days.
Click Prepare/Edit Week (top-left of the planner). Add an activity for each thing you do — give it a name and a length in hours and minutes (5 minutes minimum), and set which days it runs using its row of weekday buttons (Mon–Sun). When you save, two buttons set the scope: Edit saves to just one day, while Set the Stage applies to your whole recurring week. To change a single day, click the little pencil on that day's header — that view only saves to that day (no "Set the Stage"), so it can't overwrite the rest of your week. To wipe the slate and start fresh, use Clear Everything in the Prepare Week box. Tip: clearing an activity's name also clears its time/length, so you can blank one out without emptying every box.
Each activity has a timing type:
Fixed — a set start and end time that never moves (an appointment). Shown with a ★ on the planner.
Flexible — also a start and end time, but it can shift if you wake late or pause. Shown with a ~ on the planner.
Anytime — no set time; just needs doing that day. It lands in "Sometime Today", and you can optionally give it an "-ish" time as a rough target.
Sustenance 🍴 — a meal or snack. Add an activity, choose Sustenance, and give it a time and a short length. Then save with Edit (just this one day — a one-off bite) or Set the Stage (a regular meal at that time every day). It never triggers a conflict, and if it falls inside another activity, that activity splits into two boxes around it (art 9–12 with a bite at 10:30 becomes art, then 🍴, then art). Tap the cal. button on any meal — any time, even before you eat it — to note the sustenance and its calories (both optional). That same window also pops up when you mark a meal had (✓). Calories count toward your daily totals.
Not sure how long? ⏳ On any activity (except a snack) tick "unsure" to leave it open-ended — it shows its start time and "ongoing" instead of a set length. Perfect for "organizing the room" when you've no idea how long it'll take.
Reminder / med — something to be nudged about at a set time (a pill, a glass of water, anything). Give it a name and a time, pick the days, and tick Remind me for a chime + desktop alert when it's due; add a dose or note if you like. Choose how it shows on the day: Split — a 💊 pill that parts the activity it lands in, like a meal does; or Pin — a small 🎗️ ribbon tucked on the activity without splitting it (more discreet, if you'd rather not have a pill sitting on your screen). Whichever you pick, that's the icon you'll see both on the planner and where you check it off. Mark it taken when done; it never causes a timing clash. In Settings → Sounds you can also have reminders email you at the set time.
⚠️ Important — reminders only fire while the app is running. The chime, desktop notification, and optional email go off only while The Inflictor is open or minimized. Minimizing tucks it into the system tray and keeps it running — reminders still fire. But if you close it (the ✕) or Quit, or your computer is off or asleep, nothing fires. So if you want the bell or notification: don't close the app — leave it open, or minimize it to the tray. For always-on reminders, turn on "Start with Windows" from the tray icon (right-click it). Please don't rely on this as your only medication reminder.
Each day has a small pencil in its header to edit the whole day — add activities, reorder, change the wake time. Each activity also has its own ✎ in the corner: click it to quickly edit just that one activity (its time or length) for that day only. It works on past days too, so the planner is a record you can correct after the fact — "chores only took an hour," or add a lesson you forgot. Days you change individually stick: if Saturday and Sunday differ from your usual week, set them once and they'll stay that way even when you re-open Prepare/Edit Week and save again — only editing that day again will change it. (One exception: renaming an activity in Prepare/Edit Week renames it everywhere — a customized day keeps its own times, but never a stale name.) To remove an activity, use Remove in its editor — or, in the setup box, just clear its name and the rest of its fields (duration, times) clear with it. You can leave a day empty for a rest day. To wipe everything and start fresh: open Prepare/Edit Week, delete every activity, and click Set the Stage — it'll confirm, then clear the whole week, customized days and all.
On each activity, check ✓ when it's done (you get a cheer and confetti) or ✗ if it's not.
Pause Activities Now (top of the planner) is for right now, live — you are stopping everything this very moment. A Resuming at bar appears; when you're back, set the time and press Resume, and your remaining flexible activities pick up from then (a crowd cheers your return). You can also jot an optional note there ("neighbour dropped by") — it appears in your day as a little box right after where you stopped, so the record shows what happened.
The small Pause box on a single activity is for after the fact — earlier in the day you got sidetracked or fell asleep on that one thing (you meant to start Music but napped). It marks where your day actually slipped, instead of stopping everything this second.
Click the M on any activity to leave a note about it. Each day also has a memo box at the bottom of its column. When a memo exists, the M turns blue so you can spot it at a glance.
Enter your real wake-up time in the Woke up today at bar. Tick Adjust schedule to shift the whole day to your new start time; leave it unticked to keep the planned times.
In Settings you can pick your theme and font, set your wake time and which day your week starts, and turn the Cheers and Awws sounds on or off separately. The sound button in the header mutes everything (a red ✕ shows when it's off). Check your Ledger for a record of past days, and 📊 This Week's Report to see each activity as completed / scheduled — if Housework was set 6 times and you did 4, it reads Housework 4/6 — plus your calorie total for the week. Only days that have already happened count, so a Saturday still to come isn't held against you. You can ✉ email yourself that report on the spot, or set Email me my report to Daily or Weekly and it arrives in your inbox automatically (daily ~9pm, weekly Sunday evening).
This guide grows as the app grows.
This action cannot be undone. All thy schedules, history, and notes shall be removed from the stage permanently.