Everyone who loved them remembers something. Keep it all in one place.
Quick Little Memory gathers the small memories of someone you love from everyone who knew them. Put one link in the family group text, and anyone can send a voice memo, a photo or a few words in seconds. The family keeps every one, to listen to whenever they like.
- Voice
- Video
- Photos
- A few words
- Text (855) 414-1212
“She smelled like hand lotion and she let me have the crusts.”
Sam, 7, about his grandma
Sent to Anne’s family
An example. Tap the button to watch it come in.
How it works
Start a collection for them.
Their name, and a line for the people you invite. About five minutes.
Put one link in the group text.
The same link goes to everyone: cousins, neighbors, old friends, the people from work.
Carter family · David
Send anything you remember about Mom, whenever it comes to you: quicklittlememory.com/m/…
Everyone sends what they remember.
A voice memo from the car. A photo of a recipe card. Three words. No app, no account, no password. This week, or two years from now.
The family keeps all of it.
You see every memory as it arrives. Share a link to read and listen when the family is ready, or keep it closed until a date, like a grandchild’s eighteenth birthday.
Anne’s collection, as it came in
The first night brings a rush. Then the memories keep coming, one at a time, from people you’d never have thought to ask. Anne Carter and everyone here are made up, but these are the kinds of things people send.
The first night
To (855) 414-1212
Grandma taught me to cheat at Uno. She said it was a family rule and I believed her until I was fourteen.
Marcus, grandson. Texted.
11:02 pm
Transcript: Every time we drove past the Dairy Queen on Route 9 she said, well, it would be rude not to. And we always stopped. Every single time. I still can’t drive past it.
Ruth, her sister. Voice memo.
Day two
Lemon Squares
- 1 c. butter (real)
- 2 c. flour · ½ c. powdered sugar
- 4 eggs, 2 c. sugar, 4 T. flour
- juice of 2 lemons, 3 if Ruth isn’t coming
In the cabinet over the stove. Read the last line. Jen, daughter-in-law. Photo.
Day four
She waved at every car that came down our street. Every one. By the end the UPS driver was honking back.
Mr. Okafor, across the street. Wrote it on the link.
Two weeks of nothing.
Week three
- From
- Denise Hall
- To
- annecarter@quicklittlememory.com
- Subject
- Caramels
She kept caramels in the Q drawer of the card catalog, for anyone having a bad day. Twenty-two years and nobody else ever opened Q.
Denise Hall, worked with her at the library. Emailed.
Two months on
Transcript: She smelled like hand lotion and she let me have the crusts.
Sam, grandson, 7. Voice memo.
Five months. Nobody sends anything.
Seven months on, a Tuesday
To (855) 414-1212
Your mom brought her Buick to me for thirty years. Called it the boat. Sinatra came on the radio in the shop today and I thought of her.
Tony, Route 9 Auto. Texted.
Eleven months on
Found this in her good coat. David, her son. Photo.
Most of a year.
Almost two years on
To (855) 414-1212
Played Uno with my kids tonight. Told them it’s a family rule.
Marcus, grandson. Texted.
Her son David looks after the collection. He has sealed the family link until his daughter Lily turns eighteen, and people can keep sending until then.
Sending one takes about ten seconds.
Everyone gets the same link. It opens a plain page with one big button. Tap it, say what you remember, tap send. We only ask for a name, so the family knows who it’s from.
People who would rather not use a link can text (855) 414-1212. The first time, they send the person’s code, like ANNECARTER. Or they can email the collection’s own address, like annecarter@quicklittlememory.com.
The link keeps working. Whoever thinks of something in the car next spring can send it then.
If you’re the one organizing
It should take five minutes, then ask almost nothing of you.
- You see everything as it arrives.
- Voice memos are transcribed, so you can read them as well as listen.
- You can hide anything.
- Hidden memories stay with you and can be shown again with one tap. Nothing is lost by mistake.
- The family gets their own link.
- It’s for reading and listening, and you decide when to send it.
- You can keep it closed until a date.
- A child’s eighteenth birthday, say. People can keep sending until then.
- You can download all of it, any time.
- Every word, a link to every recording and photo, and who sent each one and when.
- You don’t have to do it alone.
- Invite a sibling or a friend to look after it with you.
Private, and kept safe
- Nothing here is public. No feed, no profiles, nothing for a search engine to find. Only the people the organizer chooses can see a collection.
- No AI is trained on anyone’s memories. Recordings are transcribed by services that don’t train on what they’re sent and don’t keep it.
- Nothing is deleted unless you ask. Some of these will be the only recording of a voice. The organizers can download all of it whenever they like.
Someone is already remembering something about them.
It’s invite-only for now, opening to a few families at a time. If you’ve been invited, sign in with the email the invitation went to. Otherwise, write to hello@quicklittlememory.com and we’ll let you know.