Help & how it works

Memory or record? Why some things live under Settings

Memories are plural and personal — anyone on the page adds them. Records are singular facts — life events, occasions, people, the resting place — kept by the page's managers under Settings.

Adding a memory: the story, the photos, the when and where

A title and a story, a photo, or both. Add a date — or just a year, or a decade — a place and a theme. Uploads start as soon as you pick a photo.

From my photos: many at once, sorted into moments

Pick a stretch of your camera roll; the photos are cut into moments by day and place and kept to yourself as drafts until you publish them. Up to 100 at a time.

Keeping a memory to yourself until it's ready

Keep to myself for now saves a memory only you can see — not even the page's managers — until you add it to the page. Nothing about it reaches anyone before then.

"I have a photo from that day" — adding to someone else's memory

Under any memory, people on the page add what they remember — a signed note, with photos of their own. The photos stay with the note.

What each photo knows: its own moment and place

A photo keeps the date it was taken and the town it was taken in, separately from the memory's headline date and place.

Naming people in photos

Anyone on the page can name who's in a photo. Names, not accounts — and the person named can always remove a tag of themselves.

"You were named in a memory": what happens when someone tags you

You get a quiet notice on your dashboard. If you manage a page of your own, you can ask the author to add the memory there — they decide.

A memory from someone without an account

"This memory is from someone else" puts their name on it — a grandchild, a neighbour without an account. It reads "From Emma · added by Maria".

The same memory on another page — a copy, not a mirror

You can add your own memory to another page you belong to. It becomes its own memory there; editing one never changes the other.

Bookmark a memory, or add it to my page?

A bookmark is your private way back to someone else's memory. Adding it to your page asks the author for a copy. One is a reference, the other is a copy.

Sharing one memory by link, and saving the file itself

The author or a manager can make a link to a single memory — its words and photos, not the page. Anyone who can see a photo can save the original.

The order of the grid: life order, decades, and "roughly when"

Memories sit in the order of the life, not the order they were added. Once a page holds twelve, they fall into decades; pinned memories lead.

Pinned memories and collections

Managers can pin up to three memories to lead the grid, and gather memories into collections — albums, not tags.

Timeline, calendar and map: three views of the same memories

The timeline weaves memories with life events and relationships; the calendar shows them by the day they happened; the map shows one marker per town.

Life events: the chapters of a life

Birth, school, work, moves, milestones — year-granular chapters managers add under Settings. They give the timeline its spine.

Their links: anywhere online that was theirs

Their Facebook, their Instagram, a blog they kept, the choir's website — a row of links under Life at a Glance. Managers add them under Settings.

Search: on a page, and across your pages

On a page, search finds memories, sayings, people and places by words. On your dashboard, one search looks through every page you belong to.

Archiving a memory, or a whole page

Archive puts a memory or a page away without deleting it. Off the page for everyone, kept for the people who look after it, and back exactly as it was with one tap.

Sharing from other apps into Beyond My Time

On your phone, Beyond My Time is in every app's share sheet. Share a photo, a video or some words, choose the page, and the memory form opens with them already in it.