Visual Story Mapping
Your life, organized visually.
Memoir Builder turns scattered notes and photos into a structured narrative. Pin fragments, arrange chapters, and export a polished manuscript — without ever facing a blank page.
Two Levels of Organization
Chapters, then the details underneath them
Your main board lays out the big picture: the major periods and turning points of your life, as chapter cards across columns. Each chapter has a title, a description, and a status — Not Started, Started, Pending, or Done — so you can see the shape of your whole story at a glance.
Open any chapter and you drop into its own Chapter Details Board, seeded with four starter cards — Content, References, Footnotes, and Images — ready for the actual material that chapter needs. Add, rename, delete, or reorder them however fits the way you want to build that chapter.
Your AI Assistant
Meet Aion
Aion helps you plan your memoir: it picks a template, suggests chapters, and breaks a chapter into cards for you — always shown as suggestions first. Nothing on your board changes until you tick the ones you want and apply them.
Aion sees your board's titles, descriptions, and file names — never the contents of your files.
Seamless Assembly
Export a polished manuscript
Export the whole board, a single chapter, or just one card — from an Export link right on each chapter and card. Free exports come as PDF or Plain Text (opens anywhere, phones included); Bronze adds MS Word, RTF, and Audio Preview, your memoir read aloud as an MP3.
A whole-board export includes a table of contents built from your chapter order, with clickable links straight to each chapter's section, and every card's content assembled underneath it. Attachments can be embedded as-is with links or fully merged into flowing text, whichever you prefer — and if you've left any status=Pending along the way, your export includes a consolidated checklist of everything still flagged as unfinished.
Hear Your Story
Your memoir, read aloud
Audio Book Text exports your memoir as clean, speakable text — chapter titles and stories only, with no formatting clutter, split into parts as long as you choose — ready to paste into a professional narrator or 3rd-party audio tool. Free on every plan.
Audio Preview makes an actual MP3 for you: a chapter or your whole book, read by one of 11 natural-sounding voices, ready to download and listen to anywhere. Currently English only, with a 15-minute limit — more voices and languages are coming soon. A Bronze feature; for longer books, pair it with the free Audio Book Text export instead.
Starter Templates
So many ways to start
Every board starts with a Stream of Consciousness column too — a catch-all spot to jot down a memory the moment it comes to you, before you've decided where it belongs. Switching templates later adds to your board; it never deletes existing work.
Timeline Memoir
The default and simplest shape: Beginning, Middle, Ending.
Coming-of-Age
A childhood-to-adulthood arc: the normal world, the loss of innocence, rebellion, mentorship, and departure.
Travel / Adventure Memoir
A journey arc: the call to wander, culture shock, the physical ordeal, connection, and what you really found.
Thematic Memoir
Built around a single life-defining theme: the catalyst, the struggle, the breakthrough, rebuilding, and the truth you took from it.
Celebrity / Public Figure Memoir
A public-life arc: the spark, the breakthrough, the cost of fame, the honest version behind the image, and your legacy.
Confessional Memoir
For telling a story you've kept private: the burden, the exposure, the fallout, integration, and finding peace with it.
Scrapbook
A visual, caption-led memoir built around images first — arrange the photos and mementos, then write the story around them.
Journal
A day-by-day or entry-by-entry account, kept close to how you actually lived it rather than reshaped into a narrative arc.
Manifesto
A statement of belief and intent — for the ideas and convictions you want on record, not just the events.
Create an Article
For a personal essay rather than a full memoir: the hook, research, the narrative arc, supporting sidebars, and the final polish before publishing.
CV / Resume
A career-and-milestones memoir — professional chapters and achievements told as a narrative, rather than a list.
Now in Five Languages
Write your story in the language you live in.
Memoir Builder is available in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German — every menu, message, and exported document. Choose an App language for the whole experience, and a separate Speaking language for dictation and audio transcription, handy if you write in one language but occasionally record a memory in another.
New boards start with templates already translated into your chosen language, from column names to starter chapters. Available on every plan, free included.
Map Your Family
Family Tree
Build a family tree card by card — add a person's photo, name, a short description, birth and death years, and whether they're male or female. Link spouses and partners side by side, then add children underneath; the tree grows left, right, and down as you add people. Building and editing works on a laptop, desktop, or tablet browser.
A tree built on a bigger screen can still be opened read-only and exported from a phone or the mobile app, so it's always with you even though editing needs more room. Export your finished tree as one keepsake PDF — a title page, the tree's graphic layout, and a text listing of everyone on it — or share it as a file with a relative, who imports it into their own account as a fresh copy to keep building independently, with everyone's photos and details intact.
Building and viewing a tree is available on every plan; exporting it — as a PDF keepsake or as a file to share with family — and importing a shared tree are Bronze features, like the app's other premium export formats.
Your Story Stays Yours
Your memories, encrypted
Everything you upload — documents, photos, recordings, and their previews — is stored encrypted, with a key that belongs to your account alone. Delete your account and it's gone for good: your key is deleted with it, so nothing you stored can ever be opened again. Exports aren't kept on our servers either — your finished memoir is made and sent straight to you. Available on every plan, free included.
Ready to build your board?
Pick a template, or start from a blank board.