Almarlyn

Your Facebook and Instagram memories, written as a memoir in your own voice.

Upload your Facebook and Instagram archives. Almarlyn writes each month as first-person prose and weaves in your real photos. You keep the memoir.

A sample page with an illustrative entry and example photos. Yours will use your own.

What you posted, and what Almarlyn writes

Your posts

Jess says road trip Friday. No plan. I'm in.

Day 3 and we still have no idea where we're going.

Heading home. Laughed more this week than all year.

Your memoir

March 2009

Jess talked me into a road trip two days before we left, no real plan beyond driving until it felt right. We made it three days before either of us wanted to turn back, and I don't think I laughed that much in the whole rest of that year.

Illustrative example.

From archive to memoir in three steps

  1. 1

    Download your archives

    Request your data from Facebook and Instagram. It's your history, and it's yours to export.

  2. 2

    Upload it to Almarlyn

    We write each day as connected, first-person prose, with your photos embedded alongside.

  3. 3

    Read it, approve it, keep it

    Review the entries, then download your memoir as a PDF you keep.

The ordinary and the tender, in your own voice

June 2014

Six days old today, and I still keep waking up at 3am just to check she's real. Mark caught me at it last night and didn't say anything, just stood there with me. Nobody warns you how much you'll want to just watch someone sleep.

November 2019

Went through Dad's records today and put on the one he always played on Sunday mornings. Some griefs get quieter with time. This one just changed shape.

Sample entries, illustrative. Yours come from your own posts.

One price, paid once

$39

Your full memoir as a PDF.

One payment, not a subscription. This is the planned launch price. Waitlist members are emailed the day Almarlyn opens, before anyone else.

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What happens to your photos and your archive

No facial recognition. Ever.

Your photos are embedded directly into your journal — they're never sent to an AI model or analyzed for identifying features.

Your archive is deleted after processing.

We use it to write your memoir, then it's gone.

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