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1. General

   What are affirmations?

   Affirmations are short, positive and powerful statement which are used to change the way one thinks.

   Why you need affirmation?

   Everyday you are creating your life and experiences with your thoughts. Affirmations helps to enforce positive thoughts in the area of the life you wants to improve. By constantly saying and believing in these statements your thought pattern changes to the way you want it to and you can transform any area in your life.

   How "My Affirmation" application helps you?

   This application helps you to enforce the positive thoughts in your mind by giving notification which contains your positive thoughts at specified interval. Thus helps in impregnating the thought in mind.

   How to get more affirmations?

   To get more affirmations, open the left side menu in the application and click on Get More Affirmations. From there select a category to proceed.

2. How to use this application?

   Create your own affirmation

   From the home screen, click on the plus icon on bottom right. In the new screen, you can select which folder you want to add your new affirmation. Just click the dropdown box and select the folder you want. Type the affirmation you like and click the tick icon to save the new affirmation.

   Edit an affirmation

   Go to a playlist or any desired folder, click on specific affirmation to edit it.

   Delete an affirmation

   Go to a playlist or any desired folder, click on specific affirmation. In the new screen click on the top right Delete icon to delete affirmation.

   What is "All Active"?

   All Active consists of all the checked affirmations from different folders such as Health, Success, etc.. Notification will only trigger if this playlist has some affirmations.

   What affirmations are shown in notification?

   All the affirmations in "All Active" playlist are shown in notification

   What is the use of checking/selecting affirmations?

   All the checked affirmations will show in in "All Active" playlist. Only the affirmations shown here are shown in notification.

   Create a new folder

   From the home screen, scroll to the bottom and click on "Manage Folders". In the new screen you can click on the "+" icon in the bottom right. In the popup, put your desired affirmation folder name and click CREATE.

   Rename a folder or change icon

   From the home screen, scroll to the bottom and click on "Manage Folders". Click on the folder you want to rename, click the pencil icon above and put the new name for the folder and click rename.

   What are playlist? How is it different from folder?

   Playlist are a collection of affirmations from different folders. For example you can use it to segregate affirmations for reading at "Morning" or "Evening" or when you are depressed.

   Easy Import

   (This feature require premium upgrade). <br />Easy import feature helps users to load many affirmations from text file in one go. Only files with 'txt' extension is supported. And each affirmations must be in a new line. The affirmations in the txt file will be imported to the folder specified.

   Add, Edit and Remove Background Photo

   Go to All Active or any desired folder, long press to specific affirmation to open it. Click Random under background Image, you can choose browse image from application and from phone. This will also allow you to edit and remove images.

   Delete Folder

   Go to any desired folder, click the 3 dots icon (if delete icon is hidden) and choose Delete. A warning box will be shown, you may choose cancel or delete.

3. Settings

   Enable Notification

   Go to settings, turn on or off your affirmation notification anytime. Turned on notification will notify the user of the affirmation based on configured settings.

   Notification Time Settings

   • Notification Interval Go to settings, click on Notification Interval, you can select display interval from 3 times per day, 4 times per day, 6 times per day, daily and even customize it.
   • Notification daily display time: Go to settings, under Notification Interval, click Notification daily display time. This option is only enabled if you choose “Daily 1 time” under Notification Interval Settings.
   • Custom Number of times: Go to settings, under Notification Interval, click Custom Number of times. This option is only enabled if you choose “Custom times per day” under Notification Interval Settings. You can choose from a range of 1 up to 50 affirmations that can notify just for a day. Notification start and end time are also enabled for Custom Number of time setting since this will determine the exact start and end time of notification.
   • Custom Time Interval: Go to settings, under Notification Interval, click Custom Time Interval. This option will allow you to set your desired time interval (hours and minutes) for an affirmation to notify. Notification start and end time are also enabled for Custom Time Interval setting since this will determine the exact start and end time of notification.
   • Notification start and end time: Go to settings, under Notification Interval, click Notification start or end time. These options will be enabled if you choose among “3 times per day, 4 times per day, 6 times per day, daily 1 time, Custom number of times and Custom Time Interval”. This option will allow you to set your desired start and end time notification (hours and minutes) for an affirmation to notify.

   Play Settings

   • Play in random order If checked the affirmations will show up in random order in when viewed using play.
   • Enable automatic playing When enabled the affirmations will automatically play one by one according to the specified duration. The default is 5seconds.
   • Interval for automatic playing This the time in seconds after which the affirmation will move on to the next one.
   • Show download button in fullscreen If this setting is enabled you will see a download button under the affirmation. By clicking on the button you will be able to download the affirmation with the background image. The image will be stored in the internal SD on the directory "My Affirmations".
   • Enable background music This setting allows you to hear a good music as a background with the affirmations. For this settings to work a background music must be selected. Due to the application size constraint, no music is included with the application.
   • Select the background music Using this settings you will be able to select the desired background music for hearing in play mode. Only "mp3" format is supported as background music.

   Text Settings

   • Affirmation Font: This settings give you the ability to change the font styles of affirmation. Change in affirmation’s font style will be applied once viewed in full screen.
   • Font Size: Font size allows you to change the affirmation font size when viewed in fullscreen. The default size is 27. Increase or decrease as per the screen size.
   • Affirmation Text Position: Allows you to choose the desired position of affirmation among Top, Middle and Bottom. Change in affirmation’s position will appear once viewed in full screen.

   Backup Settings (Premium feature)

   Restore:Go to settings, under Backup Settings click Restore. This will allow you to restore backed up affirmations data to your present Affirmation application. Note: You need to do an Backup every time you add or modify your affirmations so changes will be included in the Restore.
   Backup:Go to settings, under Backup Settings click Backup. This will allow you to save your added or modified affirmations to your local phone memory.

4. Troubleshoot

   Notifications not coming

   This is a common issue and can be caused by a couple of reasons. The application works perfectly on stock android phones, so it should work on other phones if the below issue is eliminated.
   First thing to check is whether any battery saver or task manager is there. If it is there add the application to its whitelist.
   Second add the application as whitelist in doze mode. Here is an article that helps to add the app to whitelist in doze mode.
   Third you can check for any autostart settings. If it is there allow auto start for this application.
   

   Notification not dismissible

   This is because the setting "Sticky notification" is turned on. Disable it and the notification will go away.