Placed Memories
Photos
Up to a few per memory, kept at the shape they were taken in rather than squared off into a grid.
Everything it does
A short list, done properly.
Placed Memories does four things: you leave something somewhere, you decide what has to be true before it opens, you choose who can find it, and then somebody goes and gets it. Everything below is one of those four.
Placing
Leaving something somewhere
Voice notes
Record on the spot. The waveform is worked out on our side, so no screen in the app has to decode audio to draw it.
Video
A clip measured the way it plays, not the way it was coded — so a portrait video is not shown in a landscape box.
Words
A note on its own is a perfectly good memory. Plenty of the best ones are.
Locking
Deciding what has to be true first
A place
Drop a pin and choose how close somebody has to get — anywhere from 25 metres to 50 kilometres.
A date
A time capsule, up to a hundred years out. Judged against our clock, because a phone's date is only a setting.
Both
Be there, and not a day early. We tell them the date first — no amount of walking fixes a birthday that has not happened.
Neither
Some memories are just for keeping. Those open the moment you tap them.
Sharing
Who gets to find it
Only you
Where every memory starts, and where most of them stay.
Your friends
People you have both agreed to. Ending a friendship takes the access back in the same breath.
Somebody by name
Addressed to a person. It appears in their inbox and nowhere else.
A link
One link per memory, revocable in a tap, and it works for somebody with no account at all.
Finding
Getting it back
The map
Everything you have placed and everything left for you, filterable by what is open and what is still sealed.
The inbox
What people addressed to you, split by whether you can open it yet.
Nearby
Walk past somewhere you left something and it is right there.
A reply
Four ways to answer a memory somebody left you. None of them is a thumbs-down, and no count is shown to anybody.
Deliberately missing
Most of the work was leaving things out.
No feed, no followers, no likes
A memory goes to the people it was left for. There is nowhere for it to be popular.
No searching for people
Friends swap an eight-character code out loud. We will never confirm whether an address is registered.
No log of where you stood
An unlock saves the distance and nothing else. No coordinates, no background tracking, anywhere.
Nearly there
Be there when it opens.
We are letting people in a handful at a time. Leave your address and we will tell you the moment there is something to download.