How it works
From a box in the closet to an archive your family will open.
One person's life, not the whole family tree. Here's what happens to the box.
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Upload the box
Tell us whose box it is. Then add the letters, the journals, and the photos, one kind at a time. A phone photo in good daylight works.
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We do the work
We read every page, handwriting included, and put it all on one timeline.
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Unbox it together
You open it first. Then you invite the family. Each invitation says how many stories that person is in. Family reads for free.
Filling the gaps
The box is never the whole story.
So the box asks. Each question comes from something real: a name in a letter, a quiet decade, a story someone started and never finished.
Someone answers, out loud or in writing. The answer goes in the box, with their name on it.
You owe us the jet ski semi final.
Why the box asked
On page 37, Opa wins the first round and writes: "But that's a story for another day."
From Opa's box. He is real, and he still owes us.
Private by default
You decide what the family sees.
Shared or withheld
Every page and story is one or the other. You choose.
Whole topics, too
Switch off a topic, such as a divorce or an illness, and everything tagged with it is withheld at once.
The storyteller's choice wins
If someone marks their own answer private, it stays private.
Anything that looks sensitive comes to you first. The family sees it only if you share it.
Questions people ask
Do I have to scan everything myself?
Yes, but you don't need a scanner. A phone photo in good daylight works fine. We don't take boxes in the mail, so the originals never leave your house.
Who reads my documents?
Software does. It reads the handwriting, sorts every page by person, place, and year, and marks any word it isn't sure of. Anything that looks sensitive goes to you before the family sees it.
Who owns the archive?
You do. You can download everything, at any time, in ordinary file formats.
Will it make things up?
Every fact links to a document or a recorded memory. When the archive doesn't know, it says so and offers to ask the family.