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Vermont

Green Mountain days and the stories only you can tell

Vermont is a place of hills, woods and small towns. How you see it, and how you have lived here, is worth keeping in your own words.

Try it free for 7 days. Only you can see your record. Never public or searchable.

What does the first morning of sugaring season feel like to you, and who do you share it with?

A few honest lines are plenty. ToldForward asks you one friendly question a day about your life and your views, and you answer in your own words, typed or by dictation. Your Vermont record stays private while you live, and then it goes to the people you have chosen to receive it.

Only you can see your answers while you live.

Vermont

Your Vermont, in your own words

Up in the Green Mountains

In the Green Mountain National Forest, people come to hike, to ski and to admire the fall foliage. Maybe you have a trail you walk every year, or a hill where you learned to ski. Who taught you? What did the woods smell like in October? Write about the places that have stayed with you. For the generations after you, those details will feel a little like walking in your boots.

When the sap runs

Maple syrup is made in Vermont, and sugaring is a season all its own. Maybe you hauled buckets, kept the fire going in a sugarhouse or just showed up for the first taste. What do you remember most? Tell it the way you would at the kitchen table, with the cold, the steam and the sweetness all included. The way you lived through each season is part of who you are, and it is worth passing on.

Caring for the land

In Woodstock, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park tells a story of stewardship, of people taking care of places. Its Mount Tom Forest is the oldest continuously managed scientific forest in the United States. How have you looked after the places in your life: a garden, a woodlot, a town green, a camp by the water? What did that work teach you about patience? Your thoughts on caring for things are worth handing on.

Three easy steps

No writing experience needed, and no deadline.

  1. Answer in your own words

    A few sentences is plenty. Type them, or speak them with your device's dictation.

  2. Write about anything else

    Beyond the daily question, add any story, view or advice you want to keep.

  3. Name your people

    Choose who will receive your record one day. Change your mind whenever you like.

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.

Vermont

ToldForward in Vermont

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.

Sugaring season or not, start today

ToldForward asks you one friendly question a day, and you answer in your own words, typed or by dictation. It stays private while you live, and you choose who will one day receive it.

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