Share and back up memories with The Life Story Journal

The Life Story Journal is a physical kit — digital too — that allows you and your loved ones to back up your most precious memories, photos, and anecdotes for access anytime, especially later. That way, your loved ones always have a collection of you to look back on. All content is stored using My Peeps, a private, secure app without AI or suspicious data use.

Death is a natural part of life. We all know it’s coming, and, unfortunately, some pass unexpectedly and suddenly. When that happens, more than a few of us would love the opportunity to revisit those loved ones in some small way. Maybe a voicemail or voice note of them saying hi. Photos of the best memories we have. A personal anecdote that talks about that very experience. My Peeps is an app and a service that allows you to do that, digitally, in both a private and secure space. The Life Story Journal is a kind of companion kit that you can gift to kickstart the process.

The Life Story Journal is boxed and gifted like any traditional gift. It arrives to the recipient and immediately unlocks the interactive journal experience inside the My Peeps app. There are no ads. There’s no AI. Data isn’t tracked, sold, or packaged into an algorithm. The journal owner has full control over who can access the content, allowing them to share privately with anyone, or no-one. Everything is recorded and saved for sharing later, allowing someone to look back on those stories, experiences, and anecdotes, even when you — or the journal owner — is gone. It can also be for happy moments in the future, too, like newlyweds documenting their marriage to look back from day one, Mothers and Fathers documenting their child’s birth and so on.

How do you back up memories with The Life Story Journal?

This video preview is about My Peeps, specifically.

Things you can backup using My Peeps include your voice, the sound, tones, and even laughter, in recorded segments. You can also share written reflections, including personal stories, lessons, philosophies, and memories, manually or using guided prompts. Moreover, you can record videos and video responses, capturing everything about your appearance from mannerisms and expressions to personality. You can also tie in websites and active links, precious mementos, including documents and photos, and much more. It’s a social-media-esque library of your personal life and story, except this isn’t publicly available. You can limit who has access.

What makes it so cool is that you’re not just limited to preserving your own memories or stories. You could gift it to a parent or grandparent, friends, relatives, or even colleagues and acquaintances. Imagine leaving your whole life story for your kids to discover when they get older. Or documenting your kids lives from when they’re young so they always have memories to look back on. Or having a parent document their interests and memories for you.

The best part, it’s not run by tech execs who want to monetize everything. The team is small and designed the service for personal use, and is now making that available to others. When you send the box to someone, or grab one for yourself, you can get started immediately. You can also check out the app if you want to see how it all works, first. Pretty neat idea, no?