New York City, New York
Every New Yorker has a version of the city that no one else has. The corner you call yours and the way you see it now are worth saving.
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Who ran the corner store on your block, and what did your street smell like in summer?
Routines in New York change faster than anyone expects, and the bench, the train and the bakery you would defend to anyone may not last, though your account of them can. Answer on the subway or at the kitchen table, typed or dictated, one question a day. It reaches the people you choose later, in your own words, and stays private until then.
New York City, New York
Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island each have their own accent, food and pace. Ask a New Yorker where they are from and you will often hear a neighborhood, not just a city. What was your block like when you were young? Who ran the corner store, and what did your street smell like on a summer night? Those small details are exactly what the people you choose will want to hear in your voice.
The Statue of Liberty stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, and nearby Ellis Island processed more than 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1924. For many people, the story of how they, or the people before them, came to the city is the most important story they know. Perhaps yours began in the harbor, at an airport or on a bus with one suitcase. However you arrived, tell it while it is fresh in your mind and the details are still yours.
Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, gives the city its green middle. The subway, which opened its first line in 1904, carries people to work, school and late dinners. Your own routines inside all that motion say a lot about who you are: the bench you like, the train you always catch, the bakery you will defend to anyone. Write them down, because routines like these change faster than anyone expects.
The guide, in brief
The guide is an AI that helps the people you name find what you said. It shows your words as exact, dated quotes and never speaks for you.
Quotes, not paraphrase
Your exact sentences, inserted from your record.
Disclosed as AI
Every conversation reminds people it is an AI, not you.
When there is no answer
It says Unknown rather than invent one.
Small, steady steps that add up to something only you could make.
About a place, a person, a choice you made, or something you believe.
Short or long, serious or funny. There are no wrong answers and no grades.
Your record goes to the people you choose, after a waiting period.
Never public
Your record cannot be searched or seen by anyone else while you are living.
Never invented
The guide quotes you exactly and never makes up an opinion in your name.
Never a likeness
We keep text only, so there is nothing anyone could use to recreate your voice or face.
Always your choice
Who receives your record, and whether a guide is offered, is decided by you.
Start with a single friendly question and answer in your own words, typed or with your phone's dictation. One day, with Archive Membership, the people you name can ask an AI guide to find what you said, quoted and dated, and the guide never pretends to be you.