Stories That Matter: Sharing Your Life in a Digital World
Your memories are a beautiful story, and a gift you can give to future generations. Your children, grandchildren, great nieces and nephews, and even people outside your family tree will find enrichment and delight in the unique life you’ve lived and the adventures you have to share. As you relax during your golden years, now is the perfect time to preserve your stories and build them into your legacy.
One of the wonderful things about modern life is that you don’t have to put pen to paper to craft your memories into stories. There are many different ways to tell your story using digital tools that can unlock the mysteries of the past for current and future generations.
Your stories matter. From the most mundane experiences to your grand adventures, each one can become an inspirational lesson for young story-lovers as they immerse themselves into the tales of your past. Let’s tour the ways you can easily share the history of your life in today’s digital world.
Spoken History: Audio Recordings and Voice-to-Text
For thousands of years, humans passed down oral history, telling stories and adding to the tale with each generation. The tradition of telling our stories as spoken word is as old as humanity itself.
- Dictanote
- Apple Dictation
- Google Docs Voice Typing
In fact, modern techonology takes us much further than the classic tape recorder. There are many apps that can record “voice to text” meaning that a written transcript of your story will be recorded alongside the warmth and authenticity of voice as you recall the brightest and most poingant moments of your long life.
Digital Scrapbooking
If you are visually artistic and prefer to tell stories with images, then try digital scrapbooking. You can transform decades of photogrphs and videos from your family and personal adventures into a vivid visial picture-book for your family and generations to come. Then combine photos with captions, paragraphs, and artistic designs that bring each story to life.
Use digital photos from your own collection and social media history. Then invite family members to send you their collections of family photos to make each scrapbook story even more complete. You can also scan printed photos using today’s high-end phone cameras to include even older photographs in your memory picture book creation.
Memory-Sharing Platforms
While modern software makes it easy to tell your story through audio recordings and visual collages, there are even apps dedicated to memory sharing between family and friends.
Each of these apps is unique and has a different set of features, but they all share one thing in common: Bringing families together to share memories, photos, videos, and stories. Here, you can build your story and invite family or friends who were characters in your stories to share their own tales as you build a beautiful network of connected stories together.
Bring Your Memories to Life
Every story you have lived is beautiful in it’s own way. And like historical diaries of times gone by, your experiences are unique to the years when you grew up , lived as an adult, and the changes you have seen in your many decades of life. Your story may be important not just to your family, but for posterity as well. It deserves to be told.
With modern tools, it has become easier than ever to record your story and to bring others into the storytelling process. At Silverbell, we encourage each of our residents to cherish and tell their stories using the tools they find most inspiring. Contact us today to explore life and experiences at Silverbell Homestead.