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Omaha, Nebraska

Your Omaha, told the way you remember it

Omaha holds grand old buildings, busy neighborhoods and plenty of everyday life in between. The way you have lived here, and the way you see things today, deserve to be kept in your own words.

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Where is the best steak in Omaha, and how did you settle on that answer?

Omaha people tend to have their answers ready, about steak, summer evenings and which team deserves the loudest cheers, and yours count. Every answer in ToldForward carries its date, so later readers can watch your views grow and change. Begin with today's question, keep it private while you live, and choose the people who one day get to follow along.

Only you can see your answers while you live.

From first answer to the people you love

It takes a few minutes a day, at any age.

  1. Begin with one answer

    You do not need a plan. Start with today's question and see where it leads.

  2. Watch it become a record

    Over months and years, your answers become a picture of how you think.

  3. Leave it in good hands

    With Archive Membership, the people you name can also ask a guide about your words.

Omaha, Nebraska

Your Omaha, in your own words

Stories from the station

The Durham Museum fills Omaha's Art Deco Union Station, where you can still visit the station's original soda fountain. Its photo archive holds images reaching back to Omaha's frontier days. Train stations are full of hellos and fond farewells. Think about the trips that changed your life, the people you waited for and the places you hoped to see. A few sentences about one journey can carry a whole chapter of who you are.

Art that welcomes you

The Joslyn Art Museum on Dodge Street opened in November 1931 and is the largest art museum in Nebraska. Maybe you visited on a school trip, or you go back to a favorite painting again and again. What kind of beauty moves you? It might be a picture, a sunset over the plains or a well-kept garden. Your taste says something real about you, and the people you love will be glad to know it.

Opinions worth keeping

Where is the best steak in town? How should a summer evening be spent? Which team deserves your loudest cheers? You probably have answers ready. Yours count. The things you believe now, about your city, your work and the world, show the people after you how you thought at this moment. Every answer is dated, so later readers can watch your views grow and change. That honest record is something no one else could give them.

Something to come back to

Not a recording. Your own words, ready to read

Your record is text you wrote yourself. The people you choose can read all of it, and with Archive Membership ask a guide to find the parts they are looking for.

  • Find a moment

    Ask about a place, a year or a person, and see what you said.

  • See how you changed

    Dated answers show how your views grew over time.

  • Always honest

    The guide labels every answer and never guesses.

Built with care

  • Your words, unchanged

    What you write is stored as you wrote it, with the date, and never rewritten.

  • A gentle pause

    Your record waits at least 6 months before anyone you named receives it.

  • Nothing to perform

    No camera, no microphone. Type, or speak with your own device's dictation.

  • Yours to change

    Edit an answer, remove one, or change who receives your record at any time.

Nebraska

What applies in Nebraska

How we look after your information
  • Your record is private while you live: nothing in it is public or searchable.
  • You choose the people who will one day receive it, and you can change them at any time.
  • If you wish, a copy can one day go to a library or archive through the Historical Deposit.

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ToldForward asks you one friendly question each day, and you reply in your own words by typing or using your device's dictation. Your record is private while you live, and one day it goes to the people you have named.

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