Help with Penciletin

The main screen of Penciletin. At the top are scheduled events. Drag events around to set a new time. At the bottom are unscheduled events. Drag them to here to schedule them another day.

Main Screen

Drag each event to when it should happen. I recommend leaving a bit of a gap between things for flexibility and bathroom breaks.

Drag events that will be done another day to the bottom. They are sorted by how likely Penciletin is to schedule them today.

Each day, the machine learning algorithm gets better at predicting when you actually want to do them.

Screen for editing Times of Day. At the top is a view of the times as blocks showing overlap with each day of the week. Most of the screen is for editing the times of day. At the bottom is a button for adding a new one.

Times of Day

Each event can be scheduled during a specific section of the day. This is also used to find the earliest and latest times things can be scheduled.

Leave times open when nothing should be scheduled, for example: winding down before bed or during your commute.

Event editing screen. Each event is part of a calendar group. Each one has a duration, frequency, and best time.

Editing Events

Each event must have a duration. Make sure you include clean up and drive time.

Most events have a frequency, usually every day or weekly. For things that happen irregularly, set it to “as needed”.

Some things happen at specific times, while others should happen during a specific time of day.

Penciletin will notice when these rules are stretched, and will often schedule things according to when they have been scheduled previously instead.

Split screenshot showing how to select important system calendars, and the system calendar that Penciletin will save to.

Select Calendars

Important Calendars are the only ones considered when Penciletin schedules events. Unselected calendars will have no effect.

The Save Calendar is the one that Penciletin makes changes to. By default, it is named “Penciletin”. If you change it, I recommend one that does not have any alerts and is marked “free” so it doesn’t cause other calendar programs to schedule around it.