Don't lose photos when you change phones

With all the exciting new phones available, one of the impediments to upgrading is the difficulty and time required to preserve the photos that have built up on your existing device. A family member of mine explicitly stated she needs to do something with her photos before she can get a new phone. Despite the fact the existing phone at this point no longer functions consistently.

First, to solve the immediate problem, send your photos on you old phone to mms@ibiograph.com and our Day in the Life service will auto-assemble them into a pdf book and maintain a simple timeline of your photos and moments.

Secondly, going forward, send all your photos to mms@ibiograph.com as you take them - this avoids future problems when hundreds of photos build up. At that point "the old shoebox" syndrome sets in; the costs of organizing the photos becomes prohibitive. Do something more meaningful with the photos you take with your mobile. Day in the Life by Ibiograph creates narrative ebooks for you out of your mobile phone photos.

Preserving memories a fundamental human need

I'm reminded again that preservation of memories and narrative biography are fundamental to the human condition. Demand for memory preservation will always exist. Now with services such as Ibiograph's Day in the Life, the costs have fallen and the ease of use increased to make it feasible for people to rapidly preserve the memories of their lives on a much larger scale.

The Verneys' were an English family that lived through significant historical events of the 17th century but were not themselves particularly significant. They were present, but not the drivers of events. However, they saved almost all of their daily correspondence for over 100 years. The following excerpt from a book review of Adrian Tinniswood's biography The Verneys

"The documents that offer an entrée into the Verneys' world are themselves a
reminder of its unfamiliarity. Without telephones or email, friends and
relatives could communicate only with paper and ink, whether a scribbled note to
a neighbour, a letter entrusted to one of the recently established postal routes
in and out of London, or a packet confided to friendly hands for the arduous and
unreliable journey overseas. (So unreliable that Jack Verney, apprenticed to a
merchant trading out of the Turkish port of Iskenderun, near Aleppo, twice went
more than two years without hearing from his family, and was reduced to sending
dejected respects to "those of my relations that have not forgotten
me".)

Luckily for us, Jack's father, Sir Ralph Verney, never knowingly
discarded a piece of correspondence. Thanks to his meticulous filing and the
benign neglect of his descendants, an extraordinary trove of 30,000 letters
written by and to the 17th-century Verneys was found in the 1830s at the
family's crumbling country pile."

The Verneys example demonstrates the individual need to preserve memories and the greater significance for human history. Ibiograph Day in the Life, use messaging from your mobile phone to preserve your memories. Ibiograph automatically creates personal ebooks of your memories to save or share.

Reduce clutter with Ibiograph Day in the Life

Take pictures of memories so you don't have to keep clutter around! Wall Street Journal House Talk columnist June Fletcher recommends a picture instead of the original as a de-cluttering tactic. Interestingly, Ibiograph's first alpha testers used Day in the Life service to take a picture of their children's artwork and other keepsakes so they didn't have to be kept in the attic. Each day when your son or daughter arrives home from school with their latest masterpiece, mom or dad snaps a picture with their cell phone and sends it to mms@ibiograph.com. A timeline and ebook of their art will always be available, allowing you to toss the original rather than fill up your attic. Of course some people will want to keep a few “special” pieces but you can free your home from daily clutter. By answering the Day in Life question, What is the subject or theme? With the answer “art” as time goes on you'll be able to see their art's evolution over time. This holds true for any keepsake - place it in your Day in the Life Archive.