immemoris™
A home for the memories that make your story.
Memories of the people, places, and moments that made you — preserved as you remember them, or fuller through the people who were there.
How would you like to start?
There are two ways in. Both build toward the same thing — a living record of what you've lived.
Bottom-up
Start with a memory
Have a moment in mind? A wedding, a road trip, an evening you'd like to hold onto. Start with what you remember. Invite others if it's a memory you shared. Add more as they surface.
Start with a memoryTop-down
Sketch your life story
Prefer to start with the shape of your life? Sketch anchors — birth, school, family, work, moves — and turn each into a full memory over time. Anchors are placeholders. Memories are what they become.
Sketch my life storySome memories are yours alone. Others belong to several people — you have one piece, someone else has another. Either way, immemoris helps you gather what's there and weave it together. What you end up with is a written memory fuller than the one in your head — yours to return to, add to, share, and pass on.
How it works
If you start with a memory
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Start with a fragment
A title, a date, a place — or just a photo. Even one detail is enough to begin.
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Remember more, with help
immemoris guides you back with questions — surfacing dates, places, sensory details, things you'd forgotten you knew.
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Bring in the people who were there
Invite anyone who was there. Each adds what they remember, in text or photos. The pieces come together.
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Add the next memory
One at a time, memory by memory, your life story takes shape. Each memory finds its place on the timeline.
If you sketch your life story
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Sketch the shape of your life
A guided interview asks about the moments that shape a life — birth, school, work, family, moves, adventures. Add anchors for any that matter. Skip what doesn't.
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Turn anchors into memories
Anchors are placeholders. Whenever you're ready, expand one into a full memory. Add your recollections, upload photos, invite the people who were there.
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Fill in between the anchors
The moments between anchors matter too — a road trip, a Tuesday night that stuck, an ordinary afternoon that turned out to matter. Add memories anywhere on your timeline.
What life stories look like on immemoris
Whether you sketch top-down or build bottom-up, this is what emerges over time. Every story starts somewhere.
Born in Manila
1988
Started college
2006
Moved to Boston
2016
Wedding
2019
Son born
2023
Sarah, 36 — beginning her story
Sarah started immemoris after her son was born. She sketched a few anchors — the milestones that mattered. Her wedding is already a memory. The others are still placeholders, waiting.
Born in Cleveland
1962
First day of school
1968
College
1980
First job
1985
Wedding
1992
Daughter born
1995
Cross-country move
2001
Sister's wedding
2010
Retirement
2020
David, 62 — building over time
David has been adding to his story for two years. Some memories are just placeholders. Others are rich, with contributions from his sister and old friends. His sister's wedding is a memory he was invited to.
Born in Havana
1946
Marriage
1974
First child
1978
Cuba visit
1990
Grandchildren
2002
Husband's passing
2015
80th birthday
2020
Elena, 78 — a life reconstructed
Elena has been reconstructing her story piece by piece — with her sisters, her children, old friends. She's now sharing her story with her grandchildren.
What makes immemoris different
Fragmented memory is welcome
immemoris doesn't ask you to remember perfectly. It asks you what you have — a detail, a feeling, a photo, a name. It preserves uncertainty when uncertainty is honest.
Reconstructed together, not alone
Most tools assume memory is individual. immemoris assumes it's often collaborative. Inviting the people who were there is a first-class action, not an afterthought. Their pieces integrate into yours — not as comments, but as part of the memory itself.
Built by someone who couldn't picture their own life
immemoris was created by someone with aphantasia — the inability to form mental images. For them, memory couldn't be visualized. It had to be reconstructed, in words, from fragments. That constraint shaped everything about how the product works. But most people, aphantasia or not, remember life the same way — incompletely, partially, with gaps. immemoris is for all of them.
What a shared memory looks like
A memory you rebuild on your own becomes a narrative in your own voice. Harder to picture is what happens when several people reconstruct one together — so that's what we show here.
When Iris's sister and her family came to visit us
Created by Tom
It was a couple of months after we moved to the new house. They (Emma, Jack and their kids) visited Iris's brother first and then came to visit us. I think Jack got pulled over for speeding, but did not get a ticket.
Select contributions and photos to include in the narrative. Up to 10 photos. (6/10 photos selected)
Jack
We all went to Lake George and rented a motor boat. I put Avi in the captain seat at some point and let her stir the boat.
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We also took them to see the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany. In this photo, Iris is trying to get Avi to join her cousins.
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About the boat trip on Lake George — do you remember what the water was like that day, calm or choppy?
Mostly calm. I remember that Emma jumped to the water. Maybe Avi too. Not sure, but I think there were more than two people in the water at some point.
When people jumped in — do you remember if the water was cold, or warm enough that it felt comfortable?
I think they said it was cold at first but they quickly got used to it. It was September so the water's temperature was actually reasonable.
Emma
not certainActually, I think it might have been a different visit when Jack got pulled over — I'm not sure.
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Memory narrative
When Iris's sister and her family came to visit us
It was just a couple of months after we'd moved into the new house when Emma, Jack, and their kids came to visit. They'd stopped at Iris's brother's place first, then made their way to us in Clifton Park.
Two perspectives — both preserved
Tom's version
Tom remembered that Jack got pulled over for speeding during this visit, though he didn't end up getting a ticket.
Emma's version
Emma wasn't entirely sure, but thought the speeding incident might have happened during a different visit altogether.
We all piled into a rental motorboat at Lake George one September day. The water was mostly calm, and Jack put Avi in the captain's seat at some point, letting her steer the boat.
At some point Emma jumped into the water - maybe Avi too. They said it was cold at first but they quickly got used to it; the water temperature in September was actually reasonable.
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Generated by immemoris from the selected contributions and photos
Built for real memories
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Photo intelligence
GPS coordinates and timestamps from your photos help immemoris suggest which ones belong.
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Honest about disagreement
When people remember things differently, the narrative preserves both versions rather than smoothing them over.
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Tag people, pets, and places
Identify who or what's in each photo. Tags carry across memories.
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Edit and rearrange
The narrative is a starting point. Edit paragraph by paragraph or rearrange photos until it matches what you remember.
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Lock and preserve
When a memory is complete, lock it. Contributors can still view it, but nothing can be changed.
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Audio recollections
Record what you remember. immemoris transcribes it and weaves it into the narrative.
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