How it works
A question goes out
Your storyteller gets one good question by email — “What was your very first car, and where did it take you?” You set the pace: one to four a week.
They tell the story
They answer in their own words, on their own time. A few lines or a few pages — whatever the memory wants. No app for them to learn; it all happens over email.
Everyone you choose gets every word
The story lands in the family's inboxes the moment it's told. Reactions and write-backs take one tap — no accounts, nothing to install, nothing to pay.
A year becomes a book
Week by week the book takes shape, and you can watch it grow. When the year ends, the stories are printed as a hardcover your family keeps forever.
Volume one
The Stories of My Life
as told by Dad
Longtold Press
The book is the point
Not a feed. Not an archive. A hardcover on the shelf.
Every story becomes pages in a real book that takes shape as the year goes on — you and your family can watch it grow. A year from now, it arrives printed and bound: the voice you know, between covers, for good.
Built for trust
Private by design
Stories are encrypted at rest, sent only to the people you choose, and never used to train AI or made public.
Nothing for the family to learn
Recipients need no account and no app — the stories arrive as beautiful emails, and reactions work in one tap.
A real person on the other end
Questions or trouble, write hey@longtold.life — we read and answer every one.
Give a year of stories.
Start this week — the first question goes out as soon as your storyteller says yes.
Start your family’s year