Guides

Digitize old photos with your smartphone: choose an app, use soft light, check each scan, name the files and keep a second copy beside the family story.

Twelve questions about your mum, dad or grandparents. Played in a minute, with 50 questions to print at the end.

The Mandela effect is a false memory millions of people share. Twelve famous examples with pictures to compare, plus a short one-minute memory test.

Interview transcript template: names, readable English, and a time mark. Find Grandma talking about the move in the recording.

Scan photos without glare: side light, flash off for a plain shot, four-dot walk in the app, then hang the picture on the story.

How to organize family memories: write down what you have first, then keep photo, letter, and original voice together. Five notes, one system, the voice first.

Questions to ask grandparents: send one to three ahead, take thirty to sixty minutes, put an object on the table. The original voice comes first.

A QR code in a family book is a door, not the memory. What not to print, how large the code must be, and why the original voice comes first.

Document family values as a story: three questions, original voice, and one object. Not a poster, and no printed book inside the app.

Speech to text privacy: where a family voice becomes text, whether the original file stays, and how conversion can stay on the device.