Portland, Oregon
Portland has its own way of doing almost everything. How you have lived here, and how you see the city now, belongs in your own words.
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Which bridge across the Willamette do you cross most, and who was waiting on the other side?
In Portland, even a commute across the Hawthorne or the Burnside can turn into a real story once you start telling it, and ToldForward gives you a nudge each day with one question. Answer during a rain shower or after tending your roses, in your own words. Your chosen people can later search it with the Archive Membership guide, which quotes exactly what you wrote.
Portland, Oregon
Portland came to be known as the City of Roses, and the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park, dedicated in 1924, holds more than 10,000 rose bushes. Maybe you have walked those paths in bloom season, or you keep a few roses of your own. What blooms in your yard or on your windowsill, and who taught you to care for it? Little things like that are part of who you are.
Forest Park covers about 5,200 acres, and its Wildwood Trail runs about 30 miles through the trees. It is a whole forest inside city limits, and plenty of Portlanders have a favorite stretch. Do you walk, run or just sit and listen to the rain on the leaves? The places where you go to think tell the people you love a lot about the person you are today, and that is worth holding onto.
The Willamette River runs through the middle of the city, and Multnomah County alone looks after six bridges across it, including the Hawthorne, Morrison and Burnside. Most people here have a bridge they cross more than any other. Where were you going all those times, and who was waiting on the other side? Your answers turn a daily commute into a real story about your life and the people in it.
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.
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The people you name receive it after a waiting period of at least 6 months.
How your words are found
The people you name receive your whole record. With Archive Membership they can also ask a guide, which looks through what you wrote and shows them your own words.
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Everyone you name receives the same complete record.
Exact quotes
The guide shows your words as you wrote them, dated.
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It never claims to be you, and it tells people so.
A single friendly question comes each day; answer it whenever you like. Later on, with Archive Membership, the people you name can ask an AI guide to find your exact words, quoted and dated, and it never pretends to be you.