Getting started
Getting started
The whole setup is designed to be over in about a minute. The part worth thinking about is not the setup, it is what you record first.
Step by step
Create your account
Sign up at app.keepsaiq.com with your name and email. There is no confirmation code to hunt for — you go straight in.
Record one thing
Answer a single prompt out loud for about twenty seconds. Do not plan it. The first recording exists to prove to you that this takes no time.
Add one photograph
Pick a photo that means something and say one sentence about it. This is the pattern the whole archive is built on: an image plus its context.
Invite one person
Invite a single family member rather than the whole family at once. One other contributor is what turns a personal project into a shared one.
Come back on the weekend
Set no goal beyond that. A family that adds something most weeks accumulates more in a year than one that plans a comprehensive project and never starts it.
What to record first
The instinct is to start at the beginning — the oldest generation, the earliest photographs, a chronological plan. That instinct is the reason most family archives never get past setup, because starting at the beginning means starting with the hardest, most emotionally loaded material.
Start instead with something from this week. What happened at dinner. What someone said that was funny. What is currently annoying you. It feels trivially unimportant and it is exactly what people find most valuable fifteen years later, because nobody ever records the ordinary on purpose.
The one thing worth doing early
There is a single high-urgency task in every family archive: photographs whose subjects can still be identified by someone who is getting older. Once the last person who can name the people in a picture is gone, that photograph is permanently unreadable, and no amount of later effort recovers it.
If you do nothing else in the first month, sit with the oldest relative you have and record them naming who is in twenty old photographs.
Setting the pace
Twenty seconds is not a marketing number, it is a design constraint chosen because it is the length that survives a real week. Recordings that take five minutes get postponed until a quieter day, and the quieter day does not come.
Families who succeed at this treat it like a small habit attached to something they already do — Sunday dinner, the drive home, bedtime — rather than as a project with a schedule.
Common questions
- Is there a confirmation code when I sign up?
- No. Signing up takes you straight into the product. Email verification is a later in-app nudge rather than a gate you have to clear before you can do anything.
- How much does it cost to start?
- It is free to start, and your first memory takes about twenty seconds. Paid subscriptions are processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.
- Do I need everyone in the family to join before it is useful?
- No. One other contributor is enough to change the dynamic. Inviting one person and getting a reply beats inviting twelve and getting silence.
Related
Inviting your family
How family invitations work in KeepSaiQ, and the practical part nobody covers: how to get relatives who ignore every app invitation to actually take part.
How to record a voice memory
How voice recording works in KeepSaiQ, how long a memory should be, what gets transcribed, and how to get a self-conscious relative to actually talk.
How it works
The twenty-second loop: capture, connect, and what the archive gives back.
Start your family's living memory
Free to start. Your first memory takes twenty seconds, and it stays private to your family.
Create your free account
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