u/chocolate4everr

I’m curious how other parents handle this.

I take a lot of photos, but the thing I worry about losing is not the photo itself. It is the context around it.

Why was this funny?
What were they learning that week?
What did they say or do that I thought I would remember?
What was going on in our family at that time?

For parents with babies or toddlers, do you actually write any of this down somewhere?

Notes app, captions, baby book, shared album, journal, texts to family, anything like that?

Or do the photos mostly just pile up in the camera roll?

Solo dev. I kept journals on and off for years and the same problem kept hitting me: you write 200 entries and a year later you have no shape to any of it. Just a wall of dates.

So I built DiaryVault. The core idea is that your entries should be readable as chapters of your life, not a stream of paragraphs. The app groups them into named periods like "Early Mornings and Digital Deep Dives" or "The Year I Went Back and Forth" automatically. You see your life as a sequence.

Other things it does:

Today Mode: list 5 bullets about your day, get back a journal entry written in your voice. For the days you'd skip otherwise.

One-line summary of who you've been lately based on your last 30 entries. Mine right now is "you describe the world as a series of aesthetic inputs, your own presence is an afterthought." Brutal and accurate.

Shared Eras: an opt-in feed where you can publish one resonant sentence from a chapter of your life and other journalers can react. No follower counts, no metrics brain.

iOS only right now. 7-day free trial, then $4.99/month or $29.99/year.

https://preview.redd.it/159vbullxbyg1.jpg?width=722&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf0d8308a05779f5ba45d92348e6c1546503929c

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6754956466

Honest feedback welcome, especially from people who already journal and would tell me what's wrong with this.