For grandparents, families and care homes
Every life is a story worth keeping.
A childhood street, a wedding day, the first job, this morning’s visit: a few lines and a photo at a time, Dogood keeps them, and each year becomes a book to read again with the family.
- Kept on your device, not in our cloud
- Free to write, for as long as you like
What to write.
Your stories are a gift to those who come after: write whatever comes back, on any day.
Where you grew up
The street, the house, the school, the smell of the kitchen: places only you can bring back to life.
The people you loved
Parents, a first love, friends, those who are gone: who they were, in your own words.
A life’s work
The jobs, the trades, the things made by hand: what you did, and what you were proud of.
The big days
A wedding, a birth, a move, a journey: the dates that changed everything.
Today too
A visit, a call, a meal, a walk: today is worth keeping too, and it comes back next year.
What you want to pass on
Recipes, advice, family stories: what you would like your grandchildren to know.
When the page stays blank.
Five questions to start a memory.
- What did your street look like when you were a child?
- How did you meet the person you loved most?
- What was your first job, and what did you do with your first pay?
- What did a Sunday look like when you were young?
- What would you like your grandchildren to know about you?
What Dogood does for it.
Any day, even past ones
Write a memory on its own date, 1962 or last spring, and begin the story wherever you like.
The family close by
Invite up to ten people as writing buddies: they see the days you wrote, never what. One more reason to call, and something to share at the next visit.
Dictation
Rather speak than type? With Dogood Plus, say it and Dogood writes it down, in any language.
A photo a day
One a day for free; every photo of the day with Dogood Plus, kept on your device with the words.
A book of a life
A year, a chapter or chosen days as a book: print it at home, or, with Dogood Plus, at any print shop, to give to the family.
Nobody else can read it
No account and no copy on our side: the journal stays on the device, and a passphrase can lock it.
In care homes and senior living.
Dogood can become a gentle activity: a life-story workshop, a resident writing with a daughter or a grandson during a visit, families following the days written between two calls. Writing is free for everyone; Dogood Plus is bought or given within families.
- Nothing to sign, nothing to manage, nothing collected
- One journal per device: a phone or a tablet each
Families ask.
Before giving it, or starting one.
Yes: a few lines, a photo or a mood are enough for a day, and past days can be written too, a life story one memory at a time. With Dogood Plus they can simply speak instead of typing, in any language. The family can join as writing buddies and see the days they wrote, never what; in a care home, it makes a gentle activity between visits.