StoryWorth Holiday Gift Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Seeking advice on preserving personal memories with my aging parents

  Storyworth is $99/year. It has prompts and they give you a book at the end of the year. It requires the storyteller to use email, which might be a barrier. Source: about 3 years ago

• Best Voice Recording App for Spoken Words (not singing or other audio)

  It’s not voice, but I came across Storyworth and seems pretty cool. They send a daily email with a single question to your loved one. That person answers and then at the end of the year you get a printed book with all the answers. Source: over 3 years ago

• Bucket List

  Try Storyworth: https://welcome.storyworth.com/. Source: over 3 years ago

• What is something nice that people can do for their old age parents (over 65+)?

  Storyworth e-mails them a question every week, asking about their life or childhood. They have fun reminiscing, they feel good knowing you care about their stories, and at the end of the year you get a book of family history. Win-win. Source: over 3 years ago

• acute care in-service

  I think therapy for comfort care/hospice patients is largely overlooked. It’s basic practice for my hospital to sign off when patients switch to this phase, saying something along the lines of “no further therapeutic progress expected, rehab potential plateaued” yadda yadda. But I think it’s very important to have at least one more conversation and ask if they have any specific goals given the transition. ie.... Source: over 3 years ago

• I will buy it for my grandma

  Probably a different site but I plan on getting this for my mom sometime next year. She's 66 and her health has really taken a dive thanks to the pandemic (though she's avoided covid so far). She always wanted to write a memoir, she's so fond of reading them. Even if she never gets the chance this would be a nice thing for me and my sisters to have. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Ideas on how to record my 98 life story while she’s alive.

  I’m constantly getting ads for this! https://welcome.storyworth.com/. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Need advice on finding Ghost writer, have terminal illness and want to document life for children.

  I am planning on doing this for my dad for his birthday this year. Https://welcome.storyworth.com. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Need advice on finding Ghost writer, have terminal illness and want to document life for children.

  You might want to try a product like this: https://welcome.storyworth.com/. They email you questions and then compile the answers into a book. I’ve seen them advertised, but haven’t tried it myself. That might give you the prompting you need while preserving your own voice! Source: almost 4 years ago

• What do you talk to your father about?

  There is even a company called StoryWorth that will ask him a lot of these questions and publish it as a memory book. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Making a Memoir, please help?

  I’m very tempted to buy this subscription service for my parents. They have some fascinating stories that I’m sure I only half remember and would love to preserve them for my kids. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Gift for Senior Dad?

  If he still has at least some of his long-term memories -- first pet, first car, first job, etc. -- consider Storyworth. He'll enjoy reminiscing about the things he can remember. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Memoirs question

  I saw this service mentioned in another thread: https://welcome.storyworth.com Maybe that could be something for you? It’s meant for asking one question per week, but as far as I understood, you can do it at your own pace. Source: almost 4 years ago

• An elderly relative of mine has lived an interesting life and I would like to record her life story, what is the best way to go about this?

  If they are handy with a computer, you can use Storyworth. They email her questions at a regular frequency and she can type back a reply and attach pictures. You can select from a list of questions or write your own. At the end you can then compile into a customizable printed book. Source: about 4 years ago

• LPT: Sit with your your dad and your mom and ask them about their past. Their youth, their career, their dreams when they were young and such other stuff. It'll take them out of the "dad" or the "mom" role you've seen them as all your life and make you look at them as nuanced people

  My sister and I got this for my dad. https://welcome.storyworth.com. Source: about 4 years ago

• Daily Thread

  We need “Marky’s Dad” to create a Reddit account and let us know what he really thinks of her gifting him an essay (that he has to write) for Father’s Day. (Referencing “Storyworth” for anyone who missed it.). Source: about 4 years ago

• Terminal Cancer for Dad

  I'm not doing it justice. Here's a link, check it out! Https://welcome.storyworth.com/. Source: over 4 years ago

• Nothing seems special enough for mom’s 70th birthday

  How about a Storyworth subscription? It’s a service that emails you a question about yourself/life once a month and you answer it. At the end of the year they wrap all the answers into a book and send it to you. Might be a fun activity for her to do once a month and she gets to share some of her stories/experience/beliefs link 🤷🏻‍♀️. Source: over 4 years ago

• What was it like when your parents died?

  Finally, consider buying him a subscription to Storyworth.com for Christmas. (It's $89.00, so maybe you can split it with a sibling or your mom.) He'll get to tell his stories, and you'll get a nice bound book of them to keep forever. ❤. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Buying gifts for FIL who has everything and no hobbies! I am desperate! Help please!

  If he has grandchildren, definitely look into StoryWorth. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Looking for questions to ask my parents about their lives

  Not trying to sell anything (I promise), but my sister got my parents Storyworth https://welcome.storyworth.com/ last year for Christmas. It's been really neat seeing the writing prompts, answers, and stuff come in. I can't talk about the deliverable book yet, because our year isn't up, but it looks like a great way to remember them. Source: about 5 years ago