Stories, ideas, and updates
Writing on life documentation, personal history, AI, memory, and the craft of capturing what matters.
A free life timeline template as a spreadsheet and a printable page, the columns explained, and an honest account of why most filled-in templates are abandoned within a year.
Legacy contacts hand your family the keys to your accounts. They do not hand over the meaning. What the major platforms actually provide, and why structure outlives storage.
Nobody remembers the year. Here is how to recover approximate dates using anchors you do remember — and why an approximate timeline is worth vastly more than an empty one.
A hundred questions grouped by life phase, written to be asked out loud — plus the three questions people always wish they had asked and almost never do.
StoryWorth is good at one specific thing. If that thing is not what you need, here are four other ways to capture a life story — including ours, with the bias disclosed.
The blank page is a structure problem, not a memory problem. A chapters-first method for anyone who has started their life story three times and stopped three times.
An honest breakdown of where AI helps, where it hallucinates, and how LifeCharted keeps the AI grounded in your actual events.
What to include, how long it takes, who to involve, and how to start when the blank page feels impossible.
Three methods — journaling, photo archives, and structured timelines — and when to use each. A practical guide for anyone who's been putting it off.