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A GUIDE TO YOUR LIFE

SAVE FILE

Your life, kept like a video-game save file.

Fill it in like a character sheet. Get back a guide about yourself.

OPEN YOUR SAVE FILE →
FREE · NO ACCOUNT · NOTHING LEAVES YOUR BROWSER
The Today screen: Manila, 29°C and some cloud, a year ago you were in Seattle, and one question to answer

HOW IT WORKS

1 Open it and put your name in. No account, no email, no password. It's yours from the first second.
2 Fill in a little at a time. A place, a person, a year, an answer to the day's question. There's no finishing it.
3 Print the guide. Everything you've put in comes back as a book about you — to keep, or to give.

WHAT IT IS

Most apps ask you to log your day. This one asks about your life.

YOU FILL IT INPeople, places, years, jobs, the things you keep. Or just answer one question a day.
IT KEEPS THE RECORDEvery address and every year. Even today's weather, so next year you'll know where you were.
YOU GET A GUIDEA printable book about you. Made to be given to someone.

TODAY

THE ONLY PAGE THAT CHANGES ON ITS OWN

Where you are and what the sky is doing, saved once and never touched again. Come back next year and today is a record.

The Today screen: Manila, 29°C and some cloud, with a question of the day

YOUR YEARS, IN CHAPTERS

NAME YOUR OWN ERAS

The app counts your homes and your years. Only you can say "those were the Manila years" — so it hands the naming back to you.

Quiet years are shown as quiet years. Never a gap, never a score.

A timeline grouped into named chapters

A MAP OF WHERE YOU'VE BEEN

YOUR SCALE, NOT THE WORLD'S

The whole world, one country, or the few streets you know by heart. Every map is drawn for you.

Tap a year and it shrinks back to how it stood then.

A pixel-art world map with places marked

AND THEN IT WRITES THE BOOK

THE GUIDE

Everything you've put in comes out as a book about you — in your own words.

Print it, or save it as a PDF. Money, documents and health are left out on purpose: this is the part you show people.

The printed guide: A GUIDE TO — with sections about the character

YOUR INFO IS YOUR TREASURE

WHO IT'S FOR

ANYONE KEEPING A RECORDIn ten years you'll be glad you started today.
PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTSSit with them and fill it in together.
ANYONE WHO HAS MOVEDEvery address and document, in one place when a form asks.
PEOPLE LOOKING AFTER SOMEONEMedications, dates and papers, where you can find them.
A house with a mango tree, a job that lasted one summer, the year you got through. All of it goes in the same file, and none of it is scored. NO PERCENTAGES · NO STREAK YOU CAN BREAK · TRYING COUNTS

QUESTIONS

IS IT REALLY FREE?
Yes, and it stays that way. Nothing is behind a payment.
WHERE IS MY INFORMATION KEPT?
In your browser, on your device. No one — including me — can read it.
WHAT IF I CLEAR MY BROWSER?
It would be gone, so export your save file now and then. One file, kept by you.
CAN I USE IT ON MY PHONE?
Yes. Add it to your home screen and it works offline, like an app.
DO I HAVE TO FILL IT ALL IN?
No. Nothing to finish, nothing to complete. One line a week is plenty.

WHO MADE THIS

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SAVE FILE is made by Chantal Ortega — an independent creator who builds small, playful things on the web and gives them away.

Built by one person. No investors, no tracking, and nobody to sell your information to — because there isn't any to sell.

SEE MORE OF MY WORK →

START WITH YOUR NAME

It takes a minute. Everything else can come later.

OPEN YOUR SAVE FILE →
FREE · NO ACCOUNT · NOTHING LEAVES YOUR BROWSER