Household journals
Life Books
A life calendar for the whole household: a bound journal for each person, a printed board for the wall and a private website for photographs.
The parts
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The book
A volume for each person
Each person keeps a bound book for the year. Its jacket shows the owner’s whole life in weeks, one row for each year. Every week has two facing pages: the days on the left, room to write on the right. A new volume follows each year.
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The board
A board for the wall
One printed board shows the household’s years at a glance. It hangs where everyone sees it every day.
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The website
A photograph for every week
Each week’s two pages carry a printed square. Scan it with a phone camera, and that page opens on lifebooks.family. A photograph taken there is filed to that week.
Principles
Paper and privacy
The paper record
The book is the master copy. The back of each book prints what a printer needs to make it again, with no server and no account.
Photographs
Each photograph starts visible only to the book’s owner. When the owner has no account, the people who write for them see it too. The owner chooses what the household sees. Other households never see it.
lifebooks.family
The site shows the books, the board and the weekly rhythm.