Stories worth passing on
Your family’s stories deserve to live on.
Preserve the stories, memories and wisdom that make someone who they are, in their own words, for generations to come.
Heritaris is currently in development. Join us as we build a better way to preserve the stories that matter.
We inherit possessions. We lose stories.
Families are careful with objects. Photographs get boxed and labelled, documents get filed, a watch or a ring passes quietly from one hand to the next. The context behind them rarely survives the same way.
The stories parents tell at the table. The childhood memories grandparents return to. The decision that changed the direction of a life. Traditions, advice, mistakes, values, the running family joke nobody outside the family understands.
Most of it is ordinary while the person is still here to tell it. It becomes extraordinary at the exact moment nobody else remembers it.
More than a family archive.
Heritaris is exploring a more natural way to preserve a person’s story over time. Writing an autobiography is a project most people never start. Answering one good question is something almost anyone can do on a Sunday afternoon.
Our vision is that memories and reflections can be captured gradually, through questions worth thinking about, until those individual moments add up to a rich record of a life.
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A question
Something specific enough to bring back a real memory.
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A story
Told the way that person tells it, in their own words.
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A memory preserved
Kept in a form the family can return to later.
One story at a time, a life takes shape.
Sometimes all it takes is the right question.
What was your childhood home like?
What did your parents teach you that you still believe today?
What is something about your twenties you never want to forget?
Which family tradition means the most to you?
What mistake taught you the most?
What do you hope your children understand about you someday?
Made for the stories between generations.
For your parents
Capture the stories you've heard a hundred times, and the ones you've never thought to ask about.
For your grandparents
Preserve first-hand memories of another generation, in their own words.
For your children
Record the moments they're too young to remember themselves.
For yourself
Leave more than photographs behind. Preserve how you experienced your own life.
What we pass on shouldn’t be limited to what we own.
A family inherits more than property. It inherits the way a grandmother told a story, the trade a grandfather taught himself, the phrase that gets repeated at every wedding, the belief that got someone through a difficult year. Memories, knowledge, humour and hard-won judgement are forms of inheritance too. They are simply the ones nobody thinks to write down.
Help shape Heritaris.
We're building Heritaris for families who believe their stories are worth preserving. Join the early-access list to follow our progress and be among the first to try it.