Hearthkeep and Storyworth
Storyworth emails a storyteller a question each week and prints the answers as a book. Hearthkeep keeps a family’s stories where the photos and the tree are, written down or told in their own voice and typed up.
Side by side
| Storyworth | Hearthkeep | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | StoryworthA storyteller answering a question each week. | HearthkeepOne archive for one family, which everyone adds to. |
| How a story is told | StoryworthAn answer to the week’s emailed question. | HearthkeepWritten beside a photo, or recorded and typed up. |
| Photos | StoryworthAdded to the answers. | HearthkeepEvery photo and video the family keeps, with the people in them named. |
| At the end | StoryworthA printed book. | HearthkeepThe stories stay in the archive, beside the photos, the tree and the people in them. |
A page for each person
Their photos, stories and key dates in one place, for the relatives who knew them and the ones who never did.
Find a story by what you remember
Search by a name, a place, a year or a word, and the stories and memories that mention it come up beside the photos.
What to keep
- Voice recordingsRecord a story and it is typed up beside the recording.
- Stories on photosWrite the story behind a photo, and it stays beside it.
- Dates as you know themA date can be exact, a month, a year, or “about”.
Questions
Does Hearthkeep print a book?
No. The stories stay in your family’s archive, beside the photos and the people in them.
Can a grandparent tell a story without typing?
Yes. Record a story and it is typed up beside the recording.
Can more than one person tell the stories?
Yes. Everyone in the family adds to the same archive.
Who can read the stories?
Your family. Your family sees it. Nobody else does.
Start your family’s archive.
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