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Thank you for using Épigraphe. If something is unclear, the questions below may help.
Only on your device. The app does not connect to anything, so nothing is ever sent to a server.
Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and choose Épigraphe. The medium and large sizes are the ones that hold a long quotation. Touch and hold a placed widget and choose Edit Widget to set its scope: all cards, favorites only, or a single deck.
There is a limit to how much text a widget can hold, and anything past it is cut off. How much fits depends not only on the size of the widget but on the language and typeface as well. The Lock Screen is the narrowest, so it runs out soonest; for longer passages, use the medium or large Home Screen widget. Even the large widget, though, will truncate a quotation that does not fit. The full text is always in the app — tapping the widget opens today's card. Another approach is to keep a deck of short maxims and point the Lock Screen widget at that deck.
Check Settings → Notifications → Épigraphe on your device to confirm they are allowed. Then check that notifications are switched on in the app’s own settings, and that you have at least one card saved.
It shifts the delivery time by up to 90 minutes either side of the hour you chose, differently each day. The time for a given day is always computed the same way, so a notification is never delivered twice.
By the date. On the same day, the widget, the notification and the app all show the same card. Cards are drawn so that the collection turns over as a whole, which keeps the same few lines from crowding out the rest.
That is expected. Adding or removing a card recomputes the whole order, so on rare occasions a card shown recently may come round again the next day.
There are three ways.
Send it from another app — select a passage in Safari or a reading app, tap the share button and choose Épigraphe. An editor opens so you can check it before saving. When the passage comes from a web page and no source was found, the page title fills the source field.
Type or paste it — tap “+” in the library and write it out, or paste it from a note. The name and source fields can be left empty.
Import them all at once — for a larger collection, read them in from a text file (see the next question for the format).
Cards sent through the share button land in a deck called Clipped unless you change the name; typed ones land in Custom. Either can be renamed before you save.
A card whose quotation, name and source all match one you already have is treated as a duplicate and skipped.
If the last line begins with a dash (—, ―, – or -), that line is read as the attribution and split into the name and source fields.
Japanese uses 『 』 or 「 」; other languages split at the first comma.
Sent through the share button, the editor opens with the line already filed. Pasted under “+”, a “Split off the attribution” button appears instead, and it is filed when you tap it — so that nothing is split apart while you are still typing.
Nothing is split when the text is a single line, or when no line begins with a dash. Mistaking your last line for an attribution would do more harm than leaving it alone; when that happens, write the name and source in their own fields.
A Japanese source is wrapped in 『 』 for you — but if you write 『 』 or 「 」 yourself, what you wrote is what appears. Nothing is added to it.
So to put a translator or an edition outside the title, write the source like this:
『方丈記』（浅見和彦訳） → 鴨長明『方丈記』（浅見和彦訳）方丈記 → 鴨長明『方丈記』 (wrapped for you, as before)In short: write the brackets yourself and they are left alone. Other languages separate with a comma and were never in the way — The Book of Sand, translated by Andrew Hurley simply carries on.
One quotation per line, with tabs between the quote, the name and the source, in that order. The name and source can be left off. In the app, go to Library → the ⋯ menu → About the import format, and export a sample file to edit — that is the surest way to get the tabs right.
From Library → the ⋯ menu → Export as JSON, you can export everything, only your favorites, or a single deck. Choose Save to Files in the share sheet to keep it. To restore, use Import from File in the same menu and pick that JSON. Deck names, favorites and dates all come back with it.
Library → the ⋯ menu → Rename Deck. Choose a deck and give it a new name; every card in it moves across.
Separately from the quotations, you can have a short line of your own arrive at a set time. Add them from Settings, repeating daily or on chosen weekdays, up to ten in all.
The app follows your device language, switching between Japanese and English. There is no language setting inside the app.