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Archive & people
Once memories are in Lore, this is where they live. Here’s how to rediscover them — through the daily ritual, through search, and through the people they belong to.
On This Day
Lore opens to On This Day: a single memory surfaced from your family’s archive. It’s the heartbeat of the app — a small daily moment to look back, react, and remember together.
On a memory you can:
- React — a quiet way to say “I love this.”
- Add a story or comment — the detail only you remember, the punchline behind the photo.
- Add a related memory — one photo often jogs loose three more.
That last part is the point: On This Day isn’t just for looking back — it’s the gentle prompt that keeps new memories flowing into the archive.
Browsing the archive
The Family tab is the archive itself — the permanent, complete library of everything your family has added. Unlike a social feed, nothing scrolls away: every memory is dated and kept.
Sharing a memory
Found something a relative should see? Open it and tap the share icon at the top. You’ll get a link you can text or email. Members of your archive tap it and land right on the memory in Lore; anyone else is asked to install the app and get an invite first. Nothing is shown outside the app, so the archive stays private.
Searching & filtering
Because memories are tagged and dated as they’re added (with help from Lore’s enrichment step), you can actually find things. Narrow the archive by:
- People — every memory a particular relative appears in.
- Time — a year, a decade, or a rough era.
- Occasion & tags — weddings, holidays, birthdays, and the free-form labels your editors add.
- Type — photos, recipes, or recordings.
This is what makes Lore an archive rather than a gallery. A request like “show me every baptism photo” or “everything from the 1970s with Grandma in it” just works — because the details were captured when the memory went in.
The people in your family
The People tab is everyone your archive knows about. An important idea in Lore: a person is not the same as an app account. You can add relatives who will never download anything — a great-grandfather who passed long ago, a baby, anyone — and tag them in photos and stories all the same.
Each person has a page gathering the memories they appear in, so you can sit with one relative’s whole story in one place.
Connecting people
You can record how people relate — parent, child, sibling, spouse — building a family tree as a navigable layer over the archive. The tree is there to help you explore; it’s never a form you’re forced to fill out. Add as much or as little as you like.
Accounts vs. people: someone who comments or adds a memory is acting as their account. The relatives in a photo are people in the archive. The two are kept separate on purpose, so your archive can hold the whole family — not just the ones with phones.
Keeping it alive
The families who get the most from Lore treat it as a habit: check On This Day, react to what surfaces, and add the story it reminds you of. Over time the archive deepens on its own — and the daily memory always has something new to show.
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