Keeping the stories most people never quite write down.
My Journal Story is a small, quiet promise to the people who love you. We are building the mobile-first life journal we wish our grandparents had used — and that we ourselves keep meaning to start.
This is the back page of every memoir we ever read. The part that says here is who I was, what I loved, and what I’d want you to know after I’m gone. Most of us never write that part down. The mornings get away from us. The blank page is a thing we can’t quite begin.
My Journal Story closes that quiet gap. Sixty seconds of your real voice a day, recorded into the phone in your pocket. A guided prompt that arrives the way a kind friend arrives — without expectation, with one question. A year of those answers becomes a hundred chapters; a decade becomes a life saved the way you meant to leave it.
Four small principles, kept on purpose.
The voice is the gift.
Photographs preserve faces. Voices preserve people. The first time you hear a recording of someone you’ve lost, you’ll understand why every entry on My Journal Story is voice-first by default.
Sixty seconds is enough.
The whole journal is built around one small question a day. No journaling discipline, no catching-up-on-forty-years-of-life, no homework. If you can text, you can keep a journal here.
The right person, the right day.
Any entry can be addressed and scheduled — a video for your daughter’s eighteenth, a goodbye for after you’re gone. Trusted contacts confirm the moment. Nothing arrives by accident.
Your story is yours.
Encrypted at rest, exported on demand, never used to train a third-party AI. We publish our continuity plan so the journal outlives the company. The voice is yours. We’re just the room you keep it in.
Why I’m building this.
I lost my grandfather before I got him on tape. Not in any deliberate way — just the usual way, where you mean to ask the question and then twenty years go by. I have his handwriting. I do not have his voice.
My Journal Story is the thing I wish I’d handed him at sixty-five, with a small note that said: “Just answer one of these on Sunday mornings. I’ll do the rest.” It’s the thing I’m going to fill out myself, weekly, for my own kids. And it’s the thing I think a lot of people will, one quiet evening, be glad to have started.
— Rand · founder · MMXXVI
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