DESCRIPTION
NOTE FOR THOSE WITH VERSION 1.2: New application settings for Petals were included with version 1.2 and the default settings are to NOT show fertile days or future periods. To show them again, simply go to the Settings application (not from within Petals but located on one of your application screens, it is the icon that looks like a gear), choose the preferences for Petals (scroll down to find it), and make sure both "Show Future Periods" and "Show Fertile Days" are both ON. This is also the place where you can now enter a password to prevent others from easily seeing your calendar. The default was changed to SHOW both ferticle days and future periods in version 1.3 (the latest version).

Petals is a beautiful, discrete, and simple way to note, and to write your own notes about, "those" days.

Noting "those" days (as fallen rose petals) is as simple as tapping on a calendar date. Looking months ahead or behind for similar days, or upcoming days when your fertility is at its peak (noted as a single rose), is as simple as flipping from month to month. Mark those special days of intimacy or other "circle that day" occasions by tapping twice on any date.

Petals is a menstrual calendar with a clean, easy-to-use interface. Use Petals to record the dates and relative flow of your periods, menses, bleeding, flow, "friend", "Aunt Flo", "curse", etc. Also use Petals to write brief notes about your periods, or your life. Petals dynamically calculates the number of days between your periods, and using that interval, estimates your periods for six months ahead. Petals also estimates your upcoming potentially fertile days since your last menstrual period. Special days, e.g. dates, intercourse, doctor visits, etc. can be easily marked so they can be found at a glance. With Petals, it takes less than a second to record one of your past periods, so you can easily go back and enter all of your periods for the last year in a few minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS
- Swipe up or down on the calendar to change months
- Swipe right or left on the Month-Year header to navigate quickly through months
- Tap once on the footer to change modes (Periods or Notes)
- Double-tap on the information footer to show the current month
- Tap once on the month header to toggle the Calendar Lock feature on and off

"Periods" Mode
- Tap on a date to note a period day or to cycle through flow intensity
- Double-tap on a date to "circle the day", or to mark the first day of your period
- Swipe right to note past (or predicted) flow for a range of dates (or swipe left to remove)

"Notes" Mode
- Tap on a day with a note (marked by a fern) to read the note
- Double-tap on a day with a note to delete or edit the note
- Tap on any day without a note to write a note

SETTINGS
You have to go to the iPhone application Settings (the icon with gray gears) to set your preferences of whether Petals should show fertile days and predicted periods. This is also where you can set a Password to prevent others from seeing your calendar.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Fertile days and predicted periods will not appear 1) if your settings are set to NOT show them (the settings are set to show both now by default), and 2) you do not manually mark the start of each period by double-tapping a date and marking the start of your period (e.g. "Mark Start of Petals" in English, or "New Period" in other languages).

SCREENSHOT

NOTES
The "phantom" or faded petals you will see in the months ahead are projections or forecasts of your periods to come generated by Petals. The projections assume your periods are always like clockwork and never vary. That rarely happens in nature, so the forecasts are only ROUGH predictions of when your periods might occur and should not be used for distant (5 or 6 months) purposes.

You can quickly enter past periods by going back in time, swiping from left to right on period days, and then marking (by double-tapping) the start of each past period.

You can enter your own predicted periods by tapping or swiping to the right across dates beyond the current date. These predicted periods are displayed as faded petals (like forecasted periods). You can remove these predictions by tapping or swiping to the left. Note: You cannot erase forecasted periods generated by Petals, you can only remove your own predicted periods.

Notes are limited to 70 characters. Petals is not a diary.

The number of petals indicate the intensity of your flow. One petal means spotting, two petals mean lighter than average flow, three petals mean average flow, and four petals means heavier flow. The sequence for tapping the amount is three petals -> four petals-> one petal-> two petals-> NO Petals-> three petals-> etc.

You can only record flow for the present day and days in the past (but you can enter your own predicted periods but not the amount of flow).

"Circling" or marking a date is useful to track episodes of intercourse, especially during periods of potential fertility.

If you don't want period or fertility forecasts to appear in the calendar, either 1) go to Settings -> Petals and change your preference to (or not) show these, or, 2) simply do not record the start of the Petals (or periods) by double-tapping each date. This action however, will prevent any calculations of the length of your intervals and display of the date of your last menstrual period.

Projections are always set for 5 days of flow. This cannot be changed nor is it dynamically calculated from your past periods

Days of potential fertility are marked by roses and assume a 14-day luteal phase no matter what the interval between your periods.

During calculations of cycle intervals, cycle length is rejected if the length is less than 21 days. You may be having flow more often than 21 days but we only consider flow that results from ovulation as a "period".

SUPPORT
To contact us about Petals, send your questions, comments, and suggestions to info@eNATAL.com.