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Salt Lake City, Utah

Where a long trail ended, your Salt Lake City story goes on

Salt Lake City grew up in the valley where a long pioneer trail ended. Your years here, and how you see them, deserve to be told by you.

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What is your favorite way to spend a free Saturday in Salt Lake City, and who do you spend it with?

A record of your life can start with a single answer. ToldForward asks one friendly question a day, and you reply in your own words. It stays private while you live. With Archive Membership, the people you name can one day ask an AI guide to find exactly what you said about your Salt Lake City life, quoted and dated.

Only you can see your answers while you live.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Your Salt Lake City, in your own words

The end of a 1,300-mile trail

In 1846 and 1847, Mormon pioneers traveled a 1,300-mile route from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Whatever your own background, you may know what it means to arrive somewhere new and begin again. How did you come to this valley? By car, by plane, for school, for work or simply by being born here? Tell the story of your arrival, and of the people who made you feel welcome.

Birds, brine and open water

Great Salt Lake, what remains of ancient Lake Bonneville, is a stopping place for millions of migratory birds. Maybe you have driven out to watch them, or taken visiting friends to see the water. Even if you rarely go, the lake is part of the backdrop of life here. When you think of home, what do you see? Describe it in your own words, the way only someone who lives here could, so that the picture in your mind can travel with them.

Your weekday city

Every city is a set of routines. Yours might be an early commute, a lunch spot you never tire of or an evening walk through your neighborhood. These do not feel like stories while you are living them, but they are. They show how you spent your days and what you cared about. The people who receive your record one day will be glad to know the ordinary rhythm of your Salt Lake City life.

What you will do

Small, steady steps that add up to something only you could make.

  1. Open a question

    About a place, a person, a choice you made, or something you believe.

  2. Say it your way

    Short or long, serious or funny. There are no wrong answers and no grades.

  3. Pass it on, one day

    Your record goes to the people you choose, after a waiting period.

Our promises to you

  • 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.

The guide, in brief

Answers in your words, with care

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.

Utah

ToldForward in Utah

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.

Your Salt Lake City, told by you

ToldForward asks one friendly question a day, and you answer in your own words, typed or by dictation. Your record stays private while you live.

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