One question a week · Fifty-two stories · One book
New Record the story in your own voice
A year of family stories, kept
Every week we ask. They answer in their own words.
Longtold emails one curated question a week to whoever holds your family’s stories: your mom, your grandpa, your oldest friend. Everyone they choose gets the story minutes later. At the end of the year we print them as a hardcover book, bound in cloth, with what the family wrote back in the margins.
Free while we’re in beta · no card to enter · we ask before that changes
How a week runs
Nothing to remember. The week starts itself.
The storyteller’s own page · twelve weeks in · one question waiting
Tuesday
It arrives
In their inbox. Nothing to install.
Thursday
They tell it
Typed, or spoken aloud.
Minutes later
Everyone reads
No sign-up to read. The story is the whole email.
That night
They hear back
One tap, or a message, straight to their inbox.
The questions aren’t from a list. They’re written for your person.
Before it writes, our curator reads what your storyteller has already told the family.
Here’s what it knew about Robert…
- His mother was Ruth.
- He worked at the mill for eleven years.
- He’d rather write four lines than four pages.
…so on Thursday it asked him:
What did your mother, Ruth, send you off to the mill with?
A year of stories, printed and bound.
Every story on a page of its own, under the question that started it. Then three things no other book on their shelf has.
Begin a volume
Ask them this year.
Free while we’re in beta: a question a week, and every story kept for the book at the end of it.
Start a yearNo sign-up for the family to readPrivate and encryptedA real person answers