A living memoir, by email

Your life, told one quiet question at a time.

Share your age and we begin with the years you’ve already lived. Later — or alongside — a weekly email asks what happened this week, so your story keeps growing. When you choose to finish, we return a polished memoir PDF within 24 hours — once free. Name someone you trust to carry it forward.

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How it works

Patient by design.
No app to download, just email.
A memoir that grows with you.

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01
Begin with your age

On signup you tell us how old you are. Early questions focus on the life you’ve lived up to now — childhood through the years behind you.
02
Answer in your own words

Reply by email. Short or long. Your answers are saved as you go — nothing lost. A rich bank of past-life questions is there when you want depth.
03
Keep growing, week by week

Once the past is underway — or in parallel later — a weekly email asks “What happened this week?” so the memoir never has to stop.
04
Name someone you trust

Add a trusted person at signup. If we don’t hear from you for six months, they get access — after a warning to you first. You can turn this off anytime.

Sample questions

Gentle prompts across a life — childhood, college and early adulthood, work, love, and the quiet in between. Plus the week just lived.

Childhood
Who sat at the head of the table, and what did that silence feel like?
College & early adulthood
What did you believe about yourself the year you left home?
Work & days
Describe a Tuesday that mattered more than it looked.
Love
When did you first know someone would change the shape of your life?
This week
What happened this week that you’d want remembered — even if it seemed small?
Looking back
What would you tell the person you were at twenty-five — and what would you leave unsaid?

As it grows

Your memoir isn’t a finish line — it’s a living journal. When you choose to finish, we manually collate your responses into a full memoir PDF and return it within 24 hours — once free of charge. Further transfers into memoir format are $24.95 USD including tax. Printed books will be available for the shelf, for family, for the people who asked to hear it.

One free finished memoir PDF when you choose to finish — collated by hand, within 24 hours
Further memoir-format transfers — $24.95 USD including tax
All replies kept safely along the way
A printed book when you want paper on the shelf

Someone you trust

At signup you name a trusted person — a partner, adult child, or dear friend. If we don’t receive any email from you for six months, we email them with how to access your memoir — so your words aren’t locked away.

About a month before that, we write to you first, so you can reply and stay in control. You can remove or change your trusted person anytime.

Quiet insurance for the people who love you: someone you trust can carry your story forward.

A book you can hold

When you choose to finish, we manually collate your responses into a full memoir PDF and return it within 24 hours — once free of charge. Further transfers into memoir format are $24.95 USD including tax.

When you want paper — for the shelf, for family, for the people who asked to hear it — we can print and ship a book of your memoir. Printed on demand and shipped in the US and worldwide. You choose the shipping address when you order.

The same words you wrote by email, bound and waiting on the table.

Pricing

One simple year. No app. No fuss. Your living memoir by email — and one free finished memoir PDF when you choose to finish.

Annual membership

$24.95 USD / year

Including tax

Age-shaped questions about the life you’ve lived
Weekly check-in so the memoir keeps growing
One free finished memoir PDF when you choose to finish (further transfers $24.95 USD including tax)
Trusted person who can carry your story forward
Optional printed book (extra)

Start your memoir Or give as a gift

Give as a gift

Buy a year of The Long Ask for someone you love. You pay at checkout; we collect the recipient’s email so the login and first question go to them — not to you.

You complete payment ($24.95 USD / year, including tax).
At checkout, enter the gift recipient’s name and email.
They receive the welcome and start email — their memoir begins with their age and their trusted person.

A quiet present: a living journal that grows with them, week by week.

Start your memoir

One year of quiet questions by email — beginning with your age, growing week by week, with a trusted person named and one free finished memoir PDF when you choose to finish. $24.95 USD per year, including tax.