The Contradiction tag
Apply it to any exhibit — your label for your own material.
Field guide · September 2026
Organize the evidence. Reveal the pattern. Export the exhibits.
A private tool that lives on your device and turns a shoebox of screenshots, messages, photos and court papers into a numbered and dated exhibit package — without the software ever deciding what any of it means.
It takes no side, and it reaches no verdict. My Damn Self is a completely neutral instrument. It makes no assumptions and never decides who is right, names no aggressor, and scores no one. It states only the facts there is evidence of — regardless of which party that evidence helps or hurts. Every observation it makes is measured against authorities that sit outside it:
The same tool, applied to anyone’s evidence, behaves the same way. You decide what to file; the court decides what it means.
Drag in screenshots, photos, PDFs, documents, transcripts, recordings, or a whole folder. Read a real iMessage database for true timestamps and full context — not croppable screenshots. Convert iPhone HEIC photos, OCR text out of images, pull text from documents. Identical files merge into one exhibit, but every name they arrived under is kept. Before the file picker opens, it asks you to affirm you were entitled to the evidence.
It finds dates strongest-source-first — photo capture time, then the date written inside a document, then filename, then the file's disk date, then OCR — shows you every candidate, flags the weak ones, and lets you set a date by hand (recorded as "you set this").
A chronology plus five overlaid timeline lanes. Tag from sourced vocabularies — the Duluth Power & Control Wheel, economic-abuse and child-harm categories, and evidentiary labels (Commitment · Contradiction · Admission · Important). Every tag is yours — the scan fills in what your own words match, and you can take off or change any of it.
Name the people in your case once — by the part they play, not by guesswork — and every exhibit can be attached to them. What comes out is a person-to-person map: each person beside the records that involve them and the statutory elements those records touch. Bring in a whole conversation and the messages you pick keep their thread, so the package can say how much of the conversation you selected rather than letting a lifted line stand as the whole record. Pull quotes out of a transcript and you say who spoke each one — only the lines you marked as the other party's, and found on the page, are ever shown as theirs.
It never infers a role and never implicates anybody. The map is built from what you attached, not from what the software concluded — putting a person's name next to a statute is an accusation, and that is not a thing a machine gets to make.
A plain word-scan shows where terms touch a legal element, in context, and names what it did not search. It suggests a behavior category — grounded in scientific and legal knowledge (the Duluth wheel and your state’s statutory elements) — through a fully visible chain (words → element → statute → category). The scan fills those categories in from your own words, so your case is never left blank — and every one is yours to remove: take a label off and it never comes back. It never marks your own lines as the other person’s conduct. The tool makes no final judgment — it provides facts. "Convergence" points out when different kinds of record land within a day of each other: look at these together, never "these are the same event."
Set your state and county and read your state’s law: sections a person has checked against the state’s own code are marked as checked (with citation, the date checked and who checked it); the rest show the wording as we found it, where we got it — even a copy site — and “Not verified yet”, with the state’s own link where one has been found. Work a statutory-element worksheet, and run a rule audit — "followed or not, and if not, how many days off" — that never writes "violated." A state with nothing verified says so, rather than borrowing another state's law.
Your evidence is never uploaded. Your case file is AES-256 encrypted on your device. Your account is your email, what you have paid for, and the few things the privacy policy lists — your evidence is not part of it and is never sent anywhere. Forgot your password? A reset link comes by email. Logging out hands you that file and tells you what you are about to lose before you lose it, and closing the tab keeps your work once you have signed up. There is no screen lock and no quick-exit button — both were removed on purpose. The website counts visits and a few anonymous steps — how many people made an account, ran their evidence, saw a price, or made a packet — with no cookies and nothing about your case. Today it runs in your browser at mydamnself.com — that is the whole tool, and it is where you use it. The iPhone app is with Apple now, and Android is next. There is no Mac or Windows copy to download yet; when there is one, this page will say so. The rule does not change either way: your evidence stays on the device you are sitting at.
Three packets, each built entirely on your device, carrying no build stamp and blank metadata. A packet exported with a packet ID also prints “check it at mydamnself.com/verify” and a QR code on every page. In colour by default — a six-stripe band, numbered sections, colour-coded categories — with a “Print in black and white” box on the Export screen for a plain printer or a photocopier.
Using all of it is free, and both of these packets print without paying — with a large PRINTED FOR REFERENCE · NOT FOR FILING watermark across every page. One payment releases both clean for one case. The emergency packet is never watermarked.
Names print the way you set them in one field on the About-this-case card: a minor as initials, a person as a role word (“the father”), or as a solid black bar. Every line the packets print passes through it.
Also: an encrypted case file you save, reopen, and merge across devices; a sample package to preview before you buy; and a device self-test.
This exact file exists and hasn’t been altered
Every exhibit carries its SHA-256 fingerprint, printed and QR-scannable — anyone can confirm the page matches the file.
Here’s when it happened, and where that date came from
Real EXIF / document / file metadata, ranked honestly and shown with its source.
These independent records line up
Counting records from two or more different kinds of source, close in time — “consistent with,” never “proves.”
This is what the record documents
Reported as counts (“4 records from 3 kinds of source”) — never a strength score, never a case-wide total.
A promise, then the later denial — in order, with the gap
You pair and explain them; the tool only checks the order and counts the days.
Nothing here was written or connected by software
Stated in the packet where a hostile reader looks — and true, because the tool only counts and organizes.
Apply it to any exhibit — your label for your own material.
Pick the promise and the later denial and write why. The tool checks the order, counts the day-gap, and warns if a pair is undated or unexplained.
Attach a record that doesn’t support your account. It needs your note, and it outranks the supporting records so it’s never averaged away.
The one thing it flags itself: when a single file’s dates disagree, it says “check this date.” It never auto-corrects — that would be inventing a date.
The rule throughout: you pair it and explain it; the machine only counts, orders, and flags date mismatches. It never declares a contradiction for you — a machine putting that word in your mouth is the easiest thing for the other side to take apart.
Worth knowing
“Nothing here states or implies any conclusion about whether any conduct occurred or how any law applies. The author decides what to file; the court decides what it means.”
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