Put your life in order: school, jobs, homes, people and the moments between. Your photos date themselves, and the whole story reads as a timeline or a map.
Most of a life is already recorded somewhere: in photos, on the backs of things, in what four people remember slightly differently. Boromlia puts it in order, which is where most of the interest turns out to be.
What you get
A first draft from your photos: upload a folder and the events arrive already dated and placed.
Homes and jobs as ranges, birthdays and arrivals as single dates, all on one line.
A map of everywhere you have lived, in order.
Private by default, with a read-only link for family on Advanced.
Start with what you already have
Upload a folder of photos and the dates and places come from the files, grouped into events you name. What you type is what the photos cannot say: who was there, what happened next, why it mattered.
The River style is the one for reading a life: a line with events either side of it. Cards shows a decade at a glance. The site has a worked example with six invented events, if you want to see the finished shape first.
An AI can write a memoir. It cannot remember your life.
Assistants will happily turn a few prompts into polished life-story prose. The result sounds like everyone’s life, because the details that make it yours were never in the prompt: the flat on the fourth floor, the year you nearly moved, the friend who got you the first job.
A timeline collects those details first, in order, with the photos attached. If you want help writing later, export it as a CSV and give an assistant your real facts to work from instead of a blank page.
Views worth leaving open
River: The reading shape: a line with the events alternating either side of it.
Cards: A decade at a glance while you are still filling the gaps.
Map: Every address and arrival, in order, on one route.
Questions
Where do I start if I have decades to cover?
With the photographs. Bulk upload dates and places most of them for you, which turns a blank timeline into a rough draft you correct. Correcting is much easier than starting.
Can somebody else add to it?
Yes, on Advanced. Collaborators add events alongside you, which helps when a parent or a sibling remembers the years you do not.
Is 20 events enough?
For one chapter of a life, usually. The free timeline holds 20; a $2.99 slot holds 50 and never renews; Advanced removes the ceiling a month at a time, which suits the weeks when you do the bulk of the work.