Digitize, transcribe, and control who reads your parent's journals.
in their own words, on your terms
Read their handwriting again, and finally hear who they really were. You decide, volume by volume, which pages the family gets to see and which ones stay with you.
One Volume
What one volume looks like
Dad's 1978 journal, Volume 3
- photos every page, scanned
- transcription typed out and finally readable
- translation the German passages, in English
- audio your sister reading a favorite entry aloud
- visibility the volume stays private, with one gentle entry shared to the family
How It Works
Read them again, on your terms
- Transcription and translation
- for handwriting and for entries in another language
- A transcriber role
- a sibling can help with the volumes you choose, without seeing the rest
- Visibility per volume
- each volume is draft, private, or public, and its pages follow along
- One volume, one item
- every page kept together with its transcription and translation
- The details
- the years and places live in the item's written description
- Web and app
- works on the web and in the app
How to preserve and transcribe a parent's journal
- Scan every page of the volume with your phone or a scanner.
- Create one item for the volume and add the page photos.
- Add a transcription so the handwriting is easy to read.
- Add a translation if any entries are in another language.
- Set the volume's visibility: private, shared with family, or public.
Questions
Common questions
What do I do with my parent's old diaries?
Scan the pages, keep each volume together as one item, and add a transcription so the handwriting is finally easy to read. You decide which volumes the family sees and which stay private.
How do I transcribe handwritten journals?
Photograph each page, then add a transcription to the item, typed by hand or pasted in from any transcription tool. The transcription lives beside the scans, so the original and the readable version stay together.
Can my siblings help transcribe without reading everything?
Yes. Give a sibling the transcriber role and they can help with the volumes you choose, without gaining access to the ones you keep private.
Can I keep some volumes private?
Each volume has its own visibility. Keep the sensitive ones private, share a gentle entry with the family, and the pages inside each volume follow its setting automatically.
Can it translate entries written in another language?
Yes. Alongside the transcription, you can add a translation, so passages in another language become readable for everyone.
Start Today
Begin with a single volume
Free to start. Scan one journal, add the transcription, and decide who reads it.
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