Family archiving made easy.

Diaryx is one private library for your family's photos, videos, voice recordings and writing, across every generation. Your kids, your parents and the cousins each get the part that's theirs, see it in a browser, and write back.

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The Harris family
Photos, recordings and letters, 1890–today
A grandmother and granddaughter baking at Christmas Family
Grandma, on the farmRecording · 4:12
Family
Four friends sitting on a hilltop Friends
Family on the porch of the old farmhouse
The farmAlbum · 24 photos
Family
A newborn's feet Just me
A family of seven in a hand-tinted portrait Family
Three children on a sled in the snow
Video · 1:08
Cousins
Three generations on a front porch Family

Mia painted the treehouse door yellow and wouldn't let anyone else hold the brush.

Everyone
Sharing

Share with the right people.

Make a circle for each group of people: the whole family, your parents, one child's book for later. Mark an album, a photo, an entry or a single paragraph for a circle, and that's all they see. They open it in a browser, with nothing to install, and write back in the margin. Their notes come to you, and you decide what to keep.

Reading as Family
The farm, 1921
Everyone

The farm was sold in the spring of 1921. The deed is in the box, folded in thirds, with the county stamp still legible.

Family

Mom always said Grandpa cried when he signed it. She was seven, and remembers the pen.

Just me · not sent to Family

I have not decided whether to tell the cousins what it sold for.

June commented verified

Mom always said Grandpa cried when he signed it.

It was the pen from the bank. She kept it. It's in my desk drawer now.

You kept it

June's words, under her name, in your vault. The rest of the family sees it next time you publish.

The library

Your very own library.

Everything you add is kept in books on your own shelf: one for each child, one for Dad's Navy years, one for the cabin at the lake. Open a book and it reads like an album, with the photos, recordings and writing laid out as pages. Switch to a circle and you see the shelf exactly as they do.

The Journal shelf on iPhone: books named Mara, Dad's Navy Years and Loon Lake, each marked with who it is for
Inside the book Dad's Navy Years on iPhone, its chapters laid out as pages
The journal as the Family circle sees it on iPhone, with an Invite Someone button and the books they can read
The files

Ages like gold.

Every photo and video stays the original file, and every entry is plain text that any app can open. If Diaryx disappeared tomorrow, your family could still open all of it, on whatever computer they have in fifty years.

cabin-loon-lake.md
---
title: The Cabin at Loon Lake
id: 85vdpn7
part_of: '[Loon Lake](id:85j1f1v)'
audience: friends
created: 2025-07-19
date_of_document: 2025-07-19
---

Third summer in a row. The dock has lost another board and Dad has once again declared that he'll fix it in the fall, which is the family's oldest running joke and also, somehow, still not a lie — he does mean it every time.

We swam out to the raft at dusk. The water at the surface was bath-warm and about a foot down it turned cold enough to make you gasp, that hard seam you forget about every winter and remember with your whole body every July.

Loons started up around ten. Mara asked if they were sad. I said I thought they were just loud, and she said those aren't opposites.
The Cabin at Loon Lake open in Diaryx on iPhone, marked To friends
Pricing
Free $0

Write as much as you like, for as long as you like. With a free account you also get 1 GB for photos and files in Diaryx Cloud, one site at a diaryx.org address, and one circle to share it with.

Plus $4.99 / month

Room for a family's photographs: 100 GB, kept on all your devices and encrypted before it leaves them. Up to 10 sites and 50 circles, so each child, grandparent or friend gets their own page, and your own domain if you want one.

Words are never counted, on any plan. If Plus ends, nothing you have synced or published is taken down or deleted.

Start with today. Share it when you're ready.

Diaryx is free on iPhone, and on iPad and Mac too.

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