Three steps, and your voice is kept.
Answer one question. We write it down. Your family can ask about it for as long as they need to. That is the whole thing — the rest of this page is just showing you.
No card, and nothing is shared until you share it.
What did your mother sound like when she called you in for dinner?
A picture of the recorder, not the recorder itself — that lives in your studio.
The three steps
Answer a question
The question does the hard part
Nobody can answer "tell me about your life". So we ask what a biographer would ask — what your mother sounded like calling you in for dinner, what the kitchen smelled like on a Sunday. Speak your answer or type it. There is no wrong length.
- Speak it or type it, whichever is easier today
- A follow-up question builds on what you just said
- One gentle question a day, at a time you choose
We write it down
Your words are kept as your words
Your recording is transcribed and kept alongside the original audio, so nothing is lost in translation. The people, places, and dates you mentioned are pulled out and added to your timeline for you.
- The original recording is kept, never replaced
- Photos, letters, and PDFs come in the same way
- Record in whatever language you think in
Your family can ask
Every answer shows its working
Once you share it, your family can ask questions and get answers drawn from what you actually said. Each answer names the memory it came from — and where that memory was a recording, they can press play and hear you say it.
- Play the original recording behind any answer
- They can ask in their language, whatever you recorded in
- Nothing is shared until you decide to share it
It will tell you what it doesn’t know.
Every answer is built from a memory that was actually recorded, and shows you which one. Ask about something that was never recorded and you get a shrug, not an invention. Try the third question.
Ask her something
Roast and wet coats. I would put the joint in before church, so the whole street knew what we were having by the time we walked back up the path.
From Sunday dinners · 2:14
Written examples, so this page loads for everyone. The live version — real memories, real citations — is on the home page.
The three things people ask before they start
Private until you say otherwise
Every legacy is created private. It widens one step at a time, and only when you move it: you, then family, then people you invite, then public.
One story is a real start
There is no minimum and no finish line. Most people record one memory, find the next one easier, and let it build over months rather than an afternoon.
Across languages
Answer in the language you think in. Your grandchildren can read it and ask about it in theirs, and the original recording is still there underneath.
No one hears anything until you are ready.
Start with one question.
Most people mean to do this and never quite begin. One answer, in your own voice, is enough to have started.
Questions about storage and privacy? Read exactly how your stories are handled.