Photography and Memory

On May 21st the National Public Radio (NPR) program All Things Considered started a series on photography and memory that that explores the relationship between human memory and photography in the age of smartphone cameras. The series touched on many things that are important to us and we thought we would share them with you. 

We all take a lot of photos and want to easily organize, share and print them. We also want to remember the stories about the photos. Who was there? What were we doing? Where were we? When was it? Timebox can help with all of that and more by making it easier to look at your photos.

Part 1 - Take Photos To Remember Your Experiences? Think Again

The first segment talks about how looking at your photos can preserve and revive your memories. 

Part 2 - Overexposed? Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories

The second segment talks about important it is to learn how to weave a story line around your experiences.

Part 3 - How To Stay Afloat In Your Infinite Stream Of Photos

The last segment talks about the need to make our digital life more analog and that printing out our photos will help solidify our memories. It also mentions how easy it is to personalize & customize our cherished moments these days.

Enjoy the series.

What Do You Treasure?

Do you treasure your favorite photos of kids, parents, siblings, friends, trips, pets, concerts, dinners, parties and holidays?

Your photos become even more valuable when they are paired with the stories that describe them.

A story about my grandparents using my Mom's scanned photos. Click to see the whole story.

Lately I have been sharing a variety of my Timebox stories with people via email, streaming to their Apple TV and in-person.

Stories about our trip to New Zealand, my 2013 Pan Mass Challenge bike-a-thon (2014 coming up), our dog Clover and our niece Sarah’s 2007 10-year old trip. This has been easy and fun for me to do and amusing for the recipient — so they say.

All my Timebox stories are treasured memories that I am happy to browse, show and share.

Sometimes I love the stories so much that I want a physical reminder of the fun I had so I make a book or a poster. Seeing the photos and stories of our New Zealand trip in a book on the coffee table is really great.

I have scanned a bunch of my mom’s photos from when she was growing up and added them to my Timebox. When she comes to visit in June I will correct the dates, add her stories and share them with my siblings. 

More treasures safely stored in my Timebox. 

Timebox 2.4

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It's now easy to automatically reorder the photos in your story

We are pleased to announce the availability of Timebox 2.4 - now on the App Store. In response to customer feedback we have added a couple frequently requested features including:

• Photo reordering in a story by date - oldest to newest or newest to oldest. 
• Age display in the Stories timeline column headings.
• Select the exact stories for any custom gift by a specific date range, not just years.

• Improved support for large (20 megapixel) photos and retina displays. 

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Your age is now shown in the Stories timeline

More about photos

Maintaining photo quality for both digital displays and printing is very important to us. Consequently, we have worked hard to support large full resolution photos. If you take great photos or even not so great photos we will help you keep them. 

A Timebox tip

Timebox is stored locally on your device so you can add new photos and stories, update existing ones, share them and see everything anytime. If you put something in your Timebox it will stay there. 

Thank you for using Timebox. We want to make Timebox the best app we can. Please send us any feedback or suggestions. We love to hear from you.