Utah
Utah's landscapes draw visitors from everywhere, but the people who live here know them best. Your view of this place, and your life in it, deserves your own words.
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Which Utah view would you take someone to see first, and what would you tell them about it?
Your view of Utah is shaped by this moment in your life, and ToldForward helps you capture it. One friendly question arrives each day, and you answer in your own words. Your answers stay private while you live. One day they go to the people you choose, so they can know how you saw things.
Only your own words
Nothing is written for you. Every word in your record is yours, as you gave it.
Text, never your voice or face
There is no recording and no likeness, so no one can make you seem to say anything.
Time before anyone reads
No one receives your record until at least 6 months have passed after you are gone.
Your terms, kept
You decide who receives it, and you can change your mind whenever you like.
A few minutes at a time, whenever it suits you.
A friendly question about your life, your views or the people in it. Skip any you like.
Come back to an answer, add to it, or change it. Each one keeps its date.
Name the family and/or friends who will one day receive your whole record.
Utah
Utah is home to five national parks: Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Zion. Some people know every trail, and others have only glimpsed them on the way to somewhere else. Which ones have you visited, and who went with you? Maybe it was a school trip, a reunion or a weekend you planned for months. Tell about the drive, the light on the rock and what everyone talked about on the way home.
Great Salt Lake is a shallow, salty remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville. Brine shrimp live in its water, and millions of migratory birds use the lake and its wetlands. You might have floated in it as a child, watched the birds or simply noticed it shining out the window on a drive. What does the lake mean to you? The places we pass every day often hold more of our lives than we realize. Tell about yours.
The first transcontinental railroad across the United States was completed in Utah, at what is now Golden Spike National Historical Park. Your own life has turning points too: a move, a new job, a hard choice made well, a friendship that changed your direction. Which moments mattered most to you? Write about them while the details are clear. The people you choose will be glad to understand how you made your decisions.
Archive Membership
Someone you named asks what you thought about your first job, and the guide finds what you wrote, word for word. It is built to quote, not to invent.
First person, only in quotes
Your words appear exactly as you wrote them, with their date.
Third person, always
Everything else the guide says is about you, never in your name.
Nothing made up
If you never spoke to a subject, the answer is Unknown.
Each day brings one friendly question about your life and views. Answer in your own words, and you decide who will one day receive them.