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Rec  ·  Personal archive

Say it once.
Keep it for every generation after.

The Long Take is a place to record your stories, upload your pictures and video, and leave them somewhere your family can actually find them — in fifty years, not just fifty days.

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What you keep

Three ways to leave something true behind.

Not everything worth keeping is a photograph. Some of it is a voice. Some of it is just you, talking, on an ordinary Tuesday.

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REEL 01 — STORIES

Write it, or say it out loud

Type a memory, or record yourself telling it. We keep both the words and the voice — tone matters as much as the story.

REEL 02 — PICTURES

Upload the ones that matter

From your phone, an old shoebox scan, or a hard drive you forgot about. We keep the full-resolution original, always.

REEL 03 — VIDEO

Film yourself, plainly

A birthday, a kitchen table conversation, an answer to a question your grandchildren haven't thought to ask yet.

How it works

Four steps, then it's out of your hands.

STEP 01

Record

Talk, write, film, or scan — whatever gets the memory out of your head and into a file.

STEP 02

Upload

Drop it into your archive from any device. No formatting, no editing required.

STEP 03

We preserve

Every file is copied across independent storage and checked yearly for quiet decay.

STEP 04

It's kept

Set who inherits access, and when. Your archive outlives the account that made it.

A sample entry

What one memory looks like, kept.

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ARCHIVE #00381 — VIDEO + TRANSCRIPT

"I want to tell you about the year we drove to the coast with no map, because your grandmother said the map would ruin it."

Recorded on a phone, in a kitchen, in under a minute. Filed with three photographs from the same trip and a short written note.

Preservation

Kept the way an archive is kept, not the way an app is kept.

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No feed, no likes, no algorithm

This isn't social media. Nothing you upload is shown to anyone but the people you name.

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Migrated forward, automatically

When a file format falls out of use, we convert your archive to whatever replaces it — before it goes obsolete.

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A named keeper, not just an account

Every archive has a designated inheritor. If something happens to you, it doesn't happen to your archive.

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ORIGINAL FILES
Kept at full resolution
COPIES HELD
3, across separate regions
INTEGRITY CHECK
Annually, automatic
FORMAT MIGRATION
Included, ongoing
ACCESS AFTER YOU
Set per named inheritor
MINIMUM HOLD PERIOD
No expiry, ever
DATA SOLD TO THIRD PARTIES
Never
Plans

Start small. It's built to last regardless.

Every plan carries the same preservation guarantee — the difference is how much you can hold and how many people can add to it.

FREE

One archive, one voice

$0 to start
  • 3 uploads free, then $4/mo
  • Unlimited storage per archive
  • Story, photo, and video uploads
  • 2 named inheritors
Start free
PERSONAL

One archive, one contributor

$8.99/moor save and pay yearly — $91.99
  • 1 contributor
  • Unlimited storage, all media types
  • 4 named inheritors
  • Yearly printed keepsake index
Start your personal archive
Rec  ·  Whenever you're ready

Someone, someday, will want to know what your voice sounded like.

You don't need the whole story today. One memory is enough to start an archive.