Tips for customizing your stories

Len Kawell February 9, 2017

Len always takes more photos then me and it doesn’t matter if we’re traveling, walking around town or visiting friends. When we travel I try to take at least one photo of him so when we look back we'll know he was there too.

We share our photos with each other ending up with lots of photos from the day or trip in our Timeboxes. This is great but when it comes to making movies, sharing or printing we usually want to create custom versions with all our personal favorites.

Here are some tips to help you customize your own Timebox stories.

Tip 1: No Downloads - We thought we'd first mention that Timebox does NOT download your photos and videos but instead just uses internal iOS “links" to them in your Photo Library or Camera Roll. This way they don’t use up any additional storage for photos or videos on your iPhone, iPad, iPod or iCloud. Timebox generally only uses extra storage for the text and the links to your photos and videos (the links are kind of like web page URLs).

Timebox Tip 2 - Disabling Calendar Titles

Tip 2: Disabling Calendars Titles - If the calendar information in the titles of your stories is more than you want to see, you can turn it off by opening the iOS Settings app, scroll to the Timebox settings and switching off Calendar under the Allow Timebox to Access section.

Tip 3: Hiding Photos - You can easily hide photos within a story by opening the story, tapping Edit and tapping Hide on each photo or video that you don’t want to see. Timebox never deletes any photos from your Photo Library or Camera Roll.

Tip 4: Arranging Photos - You can easily move the photos around in a story by opening the story, tapping Edit and then Arrange. Tap and hold any photo or video to move it around.

Tip 5: Copy & Paste - Open a story, tap and hold a photo to popup a menu to Copy it then open a different story and tap and hold to Paste it into that story.

Tip 6: Copy & Paste Multiple Photos - Open a story, tap Select, tap all the photos you want to select, then tap and hold to Copy them. Next, open a different story and tap and hold to Paste them into that story.

Please let us know if you have any comments, suggestions or requests. We love to hear from you!

P.S. If you could please find a second to click this link to rate and review Timebox in the App Store, we would appreciate it. It’s also simple to do in Timebox by tapping on the Timebox icon. Thanks!

Mary Ellen

Timebox 4.6 and Books

Len Kawell January 23, 2017

Timebox 4.6 is now available! In addition to being faster and better on iOS 10, Timebox now offers FREE shipping on all gifts including books, posters, prints cases and more.

Make a Beautiful Photo Book for Just $26.39!

To celebrate our new printing features and free shipping, we have a very special offer*: get 20% off when you make a hardcover book using the promo code timebox-46 during checkout. For example you can make a large landscape 11 x 8 in. hardcover book of 20-100 pages for only $26.39 USD.

Timebox hardcover books are higher quality, with more pages included, for less money than some of our competitors. Plus, it’s significantly easier to make a book in Timebox and it includes all of the text: titles, captions, notes and descriptions.

It's Super Easy to Make a Book in Timebox

We love making printed books and gifts for ourselves, friends and family. We made the process from your Timebox stories to photo book, poster, print or case as simple as we could. Here are the steps:

Tap Make a Book or Gift.
Tap to select the stories you want to include.
Tap Make & Preview.
Preview your book or gift to make sure it is what you have in mind.
Tap Print to choose either Order a Hardcover Book or Print at Home.
1. When you order a book, you just have a few more steps to add your shipping and payment info (Apple Pay, PayPal, credit/debit card).
2. If you choose to print at home, just tap Print on the next page and you’re done.
Or, tap Share if you would like to share your photo story via Message, Mail etc. or save to Evernote or Dropbox.

It takes a few days to receive a printed book or gift, but it is totally worth it. It generally takes:

US: 7-14 days
UK: 3-5 days
Europe: 5-7 days
Worldwide: 7-14 days

We’re looking forward to adding more items to our catalog soon. Let us know if there is something you would like to see included.

Timebox 4.6 Details

Here is the full list of enhancements and changes in the Timebox 4.6 update:

Full native iOS 10 (including iOS 10.2) support.
Larger and bolder fonts to match the new iOS 10 look.
Rich iOS 10 notifications now include a photo thumbnail.
New easier-to-use Make a Book and Make a Movie timeline buttons.
FREE SHIPPING on all Timebox gifts including hardcover photo story books, posters, prints, cases etc.
New ability to Share a multi-story book PDF or save it iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc.
Due to popular request, display and setting for Story end dates (i.e., date ranges) are back!
Printed Order History button in the Timebox menu to see your book and photo item printing orders.
Live Photo video playback now available while photos are zoomed full-screen.
Plus: significant performance improvements and bug fixes throughout.

Thank You!

Thank you for all your thoughtful comments and suggestions. We love hearing from you and think you’ll like the new features and improvements. Please let us know if you have any comments, suggestions or requests.

Thanks for helping us make Timebox a better app!

*(20% off for the first 500 books ordered before April 1, 2017

Share Your Photo Stories

Mary Ellen Heinen November 18, 2016

It’s no surprise that we love Timebox. We both have thousands of photos and stories that we add to almost every day. As we hit the runway to the holidays (if you’re not already on it) we find ourselves seeing friends and family that we haven’t seen for awhile. There are stories to be told and photos to share.

Sharing Face-to-Face

If you are visiting with someone over the holidays, it’s easy to find and show the pics from your Summer vacation by tapping on the month in your Timebox timeline. Scroll to see all the photos, videos and maps of your adventures. Tap on a photo to see a larger version and swipe to see the next one.

Sharing On the Net

Share button

If someone you want to share with is on the internet, it’s just as easy. From a story, tap the share button to share your story, photos and videos or tap Make Video Story and Timebox will make a sharable video for you in seconds. Share via Message, Mail or post it to the usual social network suspects.

SharinG Long-Term

We all know people who are not regularly on the internet who would love to see your photos and read your stories. Or maybe you'd like to share your photos and stories with future generations or even your future self. Printing your photos and stories is a great way to share and keep them safe. And to create treasured holiday gifts! Tap the share button to see the printing options:

Print at home - Tap Print to print your story and photos on your own printer.
Make a hardcover book - Tap Make & Buy Hardcover Book to have your Timebox photo story turned into a hardcover book and delivered anywhere in the world.
Make posters, photo books (without text), prints and lots of other stuff - Tap Make & Buy Printed Items and choose what you want made from your photos. Follow the prompts and a few simple steps and you’re done.

To make ordering easy, there are three payment options for printing:

Apple Pay
PayPal
Credit/Debit Card

Sharing Multiple Stories

And, if you haven't tried it yet, you can also select multiple stories to be included in your Timebox Video Story or printed item by tapping Select in the upper right corner of the Timebox timeline, taping to select your stories and then tapping the Share button.

Happy holidays and don’t forget to take lots of photos and videos.

Mary Ellen & Len