In action

A year with the Hartwells.

Dan and Megan Hartwell have three children, Owen, Lily and Nora, a Grandma June with a kitchen full of recipes, and an Aunt Carol who remembers everything. These are real screens from Legacy, showing how their year fills in.

The Hartwells are a demo family and their photos are stock photography. Everything else is Legacy exactly as it works today.

1 Every day

The timeline opens on what matters today.

When Dan opens Legacy, it starts with what's coming up: four years since the hike up Blood Mountain, Owen's birthday on Monday, and a story Aunt Carol has just sent. Below it, everyone in the family, one tap from their own timeline.

The Hartwells' timeline, with On this day, a waiting story, and the family's faces

2 In ten seconds

Saved before the moment is gone.

The + at the top of every screen is the only way in. Take a photo, record a voice, write it down, or tap Don't forget this for the funny thing Owen just said at dinner. Who it's about, a tap. Everything else can wait.

The Add a memory menu: photos, video, voice, documents, writing, Don't forget this, a question, a letter, importing many photos

3 The story behind it

Owen's first fish, in two voices.

A memory is the photos, where and when, and who was there. Then the stories: Dan recorded a minute and a half about the one that got away. Owen wrote his own version. The star means it's a favorite, and it'll come back on its anniversary.

Owen's first fish: two photos, the date, the place, tags, and who it's about

4 People, not albums

Every person gets a life of their own.

Owen's page holds every memory he's in, read like a life: how old he was, what happened, and what kind of memory it is. A letter his dad wrote him for the day he starts driving is waiting here, sealed until then.

Owen's timeline as a line: age, date, title and a line of words for each memory

5 Then & Now

Grandma's porch, thirty-nine years apart.

On Grandma June's old photo of the porch, Dan tapped Then & Now and took today's picture from the same spot. Slide between them. In a slideshow it sweeps from then to now on its own.

Grandma's porch: the 1987 photo and today's side by side, with a slider between them

6 The whole family

Aunt Carol tells her half.

Nobody knew who everyone in the 1952 reunion photo was, so Dan texted Aunt Carol a link. She opened it on her phone, with no app and no account, saw the photo and his question, and recorded five minutes from her kitchen table.

The page Aunt Carol opened: the reunion photo, Dan's question, her name, and a big Record button

7 Waiting for you

Her stories, ready to add.

What she sent waits on the memory until Dan adds it: one story written, one recorded. Added, they're stories told by Aunt Carol, there for good beside the photo.

Two stories from Aunt Carol waiting, with Listen, Add to the memory and Decline

8 Play a life

Owen's life, played back.

Press Play on Owen and the years go by: a card for each year, his photos drifting, the things he said, and his dad's voice while the photos of that day take turns. Save it as a show, or make a video of it for his grandparents.

Play a life: a full-screen photo of backyard camping with its date and Owen's age

9 Across the years

The same life, a different way to read it.

The timeline reads three ways: cards, a line, or across the years, with memories on either side of a line through time. On a computer it runs left to right; on a phone, down the middle.

Across the years on a phone: memories either side of a line running down the screen

On a computer

The whole archive on a bigger screen.

The same Legacy at app.legacymemorymoments.app: the timeline with room to breathe, the years across a wide screen, and a book of Owen's life, ready to print or save as a PDF.

Across the years on a computer: the Hartwells' memories above and below a line from 2024 to 2026
Across the years
Making a book of Owen's life: the 2023 chapter with backyard camping
A book of Owen's life
The timeline on a computer, with On this day and a story waiting
The timeline
Owen's first fish on a computer, with its photos and stories
A memory and its stories

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