Keep the photo.
Gather the story.
Anecdote FYI is a private memory layer for the photo library you already keep. Notice the details, arrange photos into collections, invite the people who remember, and preserve what matters.
Read-only Dropbox access. Short-lived token. Explicit sharing copies only.
Dropbox / Family archive
Live in this browser
Collection
The lake, every summer
A deliberate seam
Browse broadly. Store selectively.
Dropbox remains the system of record. Anecdote stores context and opaque references until you deliberately prepare a selected photo for another person or a keepsake.
Your live library
Folders, filenames, previews, originals, and a short-lived read-only token travel directly between Dropbox and this browser.
References and context
Notes, collections, authorship, prompts, and opaque account and file IDs become durable private application data.
A private rendition
“Make shareable” strips metadata in your browser and uploads one normalized copy that can be reused across selected collections.
One memory lifecycle
From a detail to something you can return to.
Browse where it lives
Move through Dropbox without importing a second library or granting Anecdote write access.
Add what pixels miss
Keep multiple attributed notes about the people, place, reason, and moment around a photo.
Curate many threads
Put one photo in several ordered collections, each with its own caption and contribution prompt.
Invite the story
Share only prepared photos with selected contributors, then gather their voice, words, and handwriting.
Tell it naturally
Dictation is a capture method for anyone, with temporary audio processed locally in the browser.
Write when it matters
Real handwriting can accompany a story without turning handwriting into a mandatory workflow.
Keep it in context
A family yearbook is one guided collection; the same curation model also fits trips, people, and themes.
The photograph is the beginning, not the whole memory.
Build a private layer of human context, then choose exactly which pieces become a shared story.