Keepsakes
From scattered notes to one finished story
A keepsake is what a year of memories looks like when it's gathered into one titled collection — the part of the service everything else is quietly in aid of.
What you choose
Which children
One child, siblings together, or the whole family — a keepsake can cover any combination of the children in your family.
Which stretch of time
A date range, so you can make the first year, a single summer, or everything since they started school.
Which kinds of memory
Filter by entry type, and decide whether photos and voice notes come along. A birthday book might want everything; a Christmas gift might want only things they said.
A cover note
Something to the reader at the front — who put it together, and why now. It's the part people skip and the part everybody reads first.
The answers section
The questions each child answered that year can be gathered in as headings, with the memory you wrote underneath. That single structure is what makes a keepsake read like a book rather than a search result: age six, age seven, age eight, in their own words. If you'd rather the answers stayed private, switch the section off.
Sharing it
A keepsake can be published to a private read-only link — anyone with the link can read it, including the photos and recordings, and search engines are told to leave it alone. Switch the link off and it stops working immediately. Every admin decides for themselves who to send it to, and keeps ownership of everything in it; see the privacy policy for exactly what we do and don't do with family content.
What it is today, honestly
Right now a keepsake is a saved, shareable reading version of everything you've chosen — the finished collection, on any device or behind a private link. Printed books and downloadable PDFs are the next thing we're building, not something you can order yet. We'd rather say that plainly than have you plan a Christening present around a file that doesn't exist.
Worth making
- The first year, before anyone's memory of it softens.
- The stories grandparents, aunts, uncles and godparents added over the years.
- A summer of adventures with a trusted family friend.
- The last year before a move, a school change, or a new sibling.
- One child's whole childhood, gathered once, at eighteen.
Make the thing you'll keep
Capture the year while it's happening — then gather it into a keepsake in a few taps.
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