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2026 Mobile app Work in progress

Memory Explorer

What it is

An iPhone app (built with React Native / Expo, also reachable in the browser) for reconstructing your own life on a timeline. Its tagline is "fill the gaps"—you drop in moments and periods you remember, and the app helps you spot and plug the years, jobs, homes and trips that are still missing.

Entries are either single moments (a wedding, a birthday, a launch day) or periods with a start and end (a job, a house, a relationship, a trip), each tagged into categories like Relations/Family, Work/Edu, Hobby/Passion, Trips, Home, World Events and Other. Add real world events alongside your own—useful for anchoring "which year did that actually happen" memories.

How it works

A zoomable Timeline view plots everything by year (and drills down to months when you zoom in), with color-coded lanes per category and pinch/tap navigation to jump to "now" or fit everything on screen. A List view gives the same data in a scrollable, filterable feed for quick scanning instead of spatial browsing.

Tapping into a period shows its own detail screen: attach photos directly to it, and the app pulls place names straight from each photo's own metadata rather than making you type them in. It also surfaces "overlapping periods"—other entries active during the same stretch of time—so a trip automatically shows which house you were living in and which job you were working at the time.