Make a human life knowable across time.
Preserve the memories, people, voices and stories you don't want to lose.
Photos preserve moments. They don't preserve everything around them.
Every memory carries more than what a photo can hold. This is what quietly disappears when no one writes it down:
- Who was there
- What happened
- What someone sounded like
- Why a place mattered
- Family stories
- Context
- Questions never asked
How Smriti Alaya works
Remember
Speak, write, photograph or record.
Understand
See Memories, People, Places and periods of life take shape.
Remember together
Ask someone you love and preserve their answer.
Keep
Build something that can remain understandable over time.
This is the real thing, not a mockup.
“we lived near the river, in kerala, small house, my mother cooked on this wood stove every morning, there was a big mango tree in the yard…”
When I think of home, I return to a small house by the river in Kerala. Every morning began the same way: my mother at the wood stove, and outside, a mango tree that seemed to watch over all of it.
Childhood in Kerala · Moving to the city · Raising a family
The names, places and chapters you've preserved, taking shape on their own — never a form to fill in.
“I remember this differently.”
Your sister's version stays right alongside yours. Nothing is ever quietly merged into one official account.
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Memories, across 6 chapters and 14 people — the actual shape of a life someone preserved, one plain sentence at a time.
A Legacy gift for your father.
His to open, his to build — never yours to see unless he chooses to share it.
See how a life connects.
Memories begin as individual moments. Over time, the people, places and chapters around them begin to form a picture of a life.
Select anything to see what it connects to.
Your Legacy, as a list
- A life, your life. Connected to: The house by the river in Kerala, Learning to cycle on the Mylapore road, The first year in the city, The wedding at the Mylapore temple, Teaching my daughter the same recipe
- Amma, person, mother, in 2 Memories. Connected to: The house by the river in Kerala, Teaching my daughter the same recipe
- Appa, person, father, in 2 Memories. Connected to: Learning to cycle on the Mylapore road, The wedding at the Mylapore temple
- Lakshmi, person, daughter, in 1 Memory. Connected to: Teaching my daughter the same recipe
- Kerala, place, in 1 Memory. Connected to: The house by the river in Kerala
- Mylapore, place, in 3 Memories. Connected to: Learning to cycle on the Mylapore road, The first year in the city, The wedding at the Mylapore temple
- Cooking, theme, in 2 Memories. Connected to: The house by the river in Kerala, Teaching my daughter the same recipe
- Childhood, period of life, in 2 Memories. Connected to: The house by the river in Kerala, Learning to cycle on the Mylapore road
- Moving to the city, period of life, in 2 Memories. Connected to: The first year in the city, The wedding at the Mylapore temple
- Raising a family, period of life, in 1 Memory. Connected to: Teaching my daughter the same recipe
- The house by the river in Kerala, memory, 1962. Connected to: Amma, Kerala, Cooking, Childhood, A life
- Learning to cycle on the Mylapore road, memory, 1968. Connected to: Appa, Mylapore, Childhood, A life
- The first year in the city, memory, 1974. Connected to: Mylapore, Moving to the city, A life
- The wedding at the Mylapore temple, memory, 1979. Connected to: Appa, Mylapore, Moving to the city, A life
- Teaching my daughter the same recipe, memory, 1996. Connected to: Amma, Lakshmi, Cooking, Raising a family, A life
Your Legacy belongs to you.
- Private by default.
- Nobody sees a single word of what you preserve unless you choose to share it.
- Sharing is always explicit.
- Inviting someone to your Circle does not open your Legacy — you decide what they see, one thing at a time.
- Access can be revoked.
- Change your mind, and it's gone for that person, immediately.
- Your own words are never overwritten.
- What you actually said stays exactly as you said it, even after it's been shaped into your Legacy.
- You have the final word, not the AI.
- Any correction you make outranks anything AI-generated, always.
- You can take it all with you.
- Request a full copy of your Legacy — memories, media, people, timeline — whenever you want it.
Some gifts are kept for years. This one keeps the years.
Gift a Legacy to someone you love. They own it, completely — you don't gain access just by giving it. They decide what to preserve, and what, if anything, to ever share back with you.
Gift a Legacy