A Better Way to Turn Life Memories Into Stories
You do not need to write an autobiography from beginning to end. Times of My Life helps you start with one memory, answer thoughtful questions, and turn your experience into a story your family can read, hear, and watch.
A promotional introduction to the Leaves guided storytelling app.
Most people do not fail to preserve their life stories because they have nothing worth saying. They fail because the project feels too large.
“Write your life story” sounds like a book-length assignment. Where should it begin? What belongs? How should it be organized? What if the writing is not good enough?
Times of My Life removes that pressure. Instead of demanding an entire memoir, it helps you preserve one event, relationship, place, tradition, turning point, or lesson at a time. Each finished story becomes part of a larger multimedia anthology of your life.
The Hardest Part Is Usually Knowing How to Begin
Memories rarely arrive as polished narratives. They appear as images, fragments, emotions, family sayings, and details that may not seem important until someone asks the right question.
Times of My Life creates structure without taking authorship away from the storyteller.
Thoughtful prompts
Choose from more than 125 story topics or begin with any memory you want to preserve.
Guided conversation
A Virtual Biographer® asks follow-up questions that help surface detail, context, emotion, and meaning.
Story structure
Your answers are organized into a coherent narrative you can review, edit, and make unmistakably yours.
Multimedia output
Add photographs, video, narration, and music, then preserve the story in print, audio, or video.
You do not have to preserve an entire lifetime today. You only have to save the first story before it disappears.
From Memory to Finished Story in Three Natural Steps
No writing experience is required. The process feels less like drafting a memoir and more like having a thoughtful conversation about a life only you can describe.
Choose a story
Begin with childhood, family, love, work, travel, traditions, milestones, lessons, or any memory that still matters to you.
Answer the interview
Respond in your own words. The Virtual Biographer asks questions that help you recall details and explain why the experience mattered.
Shape and publish
Review the written story, add media, choose narration and music if desired, and produce the version you want to preserve or share.
A Story Your Family Can Read, Hear, and Watch
A written narrative captures sequence and reflection. A photograph restores faces and places. A voice recording preserves emotion and personality. Video brings movement and presence back into the story.
Times of My Life combines these forms rather than forcing every memory into one medium.
The technology helps organize and produce the material. You decide what happened, what it meant, how it should sound, and who may see it.
Create a polished written story that can become part of a printed collection or family archive.
Narrate the story in your own voice or choose a narrator to create an audio edition.
Combine the narrative with photographs, video clips, narration, and music in a finished video story.
One Story at a Time Is a Better Way to Preserve a Life
A life is not one monolithic narrative. It is a collection of moments, relationships, places, decisions, losses, accomplishments, traditions, and lessons.
That makes the small-story approach more than a convenience. It is often a more honest way to preserve a life. Each story can stand alone, while also becoming a chapter in a larger anthology.
You can create different versions for different audiences, invite relatives to contribute details, keep sensitive stories private, and continue adding new stories as life unfolds.
Not every storytelling product solves the same problem
Some services mail a fixed set of questions. Others produce a single printed book. Some focus on video interviews or professional ghostwriting.
- Compare guided apps, subscription services, interview companies, and memoir production options
- Understand the tradeoffs in cost, effort, collaboration, media support, privacy, and output
- Choose the approach that matches the storyteller and the family
Your Stories Belong in Your Family’s Larger Story
Times of My Life works as a standalone storytelling app. Within the Leaves Family Heritage Hub, those stories can also connect with the family members, photographs, videos, voices, places, and milestones that give them context.
A story about a childhood home can connect to a Life Map. A wedding story can draw from the Media Vault. A parent’s reflections can enrich a Forever Voice persona. Stories from several relatives can reveal different perspectives on the same family event.
The result is not simply a collection of memoirs. It is a living, connected record of the family across generations.
Begin with one memory.
Choose a moment that still matters. Answer a few thoughtful questions. Turn it into a story your family can keep.