Have you ever wished you had a way with words? A means to put your story on paper to preserve it forever? How about a photo book of a life experience that you can cherish and share at the click of a button?

Using today’s smart technology, Selfiebook now gives you the option to document your life story. All you need is a smartphone and your pictures. With a few simple steps, you can create a memoir that is for keeps.

Getting started

You can access and download the app for free from either the Apple or Google stores. Once the app is downloaded, allow it to access your photos. You’re now ready to get started.

Write your story

The app allows you to select and upload your chosen pictures. After each photo is loaded, this is where you get to explain the image by answering the questions provided.

It will ask you plenty of detailed questions, prompting you to provide the events in great detail.

This is where you get to document the when, where, why and how of your images and the event as it happened.

There is no limit to the number of pages you can create and pictures you can upload, nor is there a maximum word count, so you’re free to write as much as you like.

The beauty of this app is that you can create as many books as you like, so you could document different life events as they happen.

No printing required

This is where it gets even better. Print is no longer the way of the world! Digital is our friend and in keeping with this trend, the app will create an eBook once you are finished and you’re happy with the content you’ve uploaded.

At the click of a button, you can share the link with friends and family and they have instant access to your personalised eBook that they are able to view whenever they wish.

Imagine sharing a life-changing event with your closest friends and family almost immediately?

With the digital age allowing us to connect regardless of our location, this clever app should be on everyone’s phone, bringing families together at the touch of a button.

Who remembers listening to grandparents, parents, and other relatives tell stories about their lives? And, if they are no longer here to ask, who of us dearly wishes we had asked more questions and maybe written the answers down?

The need to trace our personal history, in the context of the greater history of society is fundamental. The popularity of TV programmes such as “Who Do You Think You Are?” and the proliferation of websites aimed at tracing ancestry attest to this. But so often, little is recorded of lives rich with experience and valuable lessons learned. Perhaps we find boxes of photographs of people we cannot name, in places we have never seen, but we are now unable to put them into any context. All this represents a sad and significant loss for us and the generations to follow.

Step in SelfieBook.

SelfieBook is an ingenious app developed by innovator and entrepreneur, Yehuda Hecht which will enable people to capture their story for posterity. Family members can also use it to help loved ones preserve their legacy before it is too late.

Following prompts, people answer a series of questions about their lives either by writing or dictating to their smartphones. Photographs or other visual material to illustrate their story can be captured onto the phone too. The app will then automatically turn all the content into an autobiography publishable as an ebook. The content can be saved as a draft at any stage and can be re-edited as new insights and information are gathered.

What are the benefits?

It is easy and intuitive to use.

Not many people feel equal to writing an autobiography, although many people wish they could. Using the SelfieBook questions as a roadmap makes capturing a life in words and pictures easy and enjoyable.

The process gives perspective and meaning.

People will find that capturing their experiences puts their life story into perspective. Once the process begins, new memories emerge, and life experiences start to fit into an overall context, which can enable people to see and understand themselves in a new way. Once started, the process of remembering fuels itself, with long-forgotten friends and events coming back into focus as people search through old diaries, letters and albums and boxes to illustrate their stories. Most people find this process fascinating and fun.

It can be a way to reconnect to others.

SelfieBook is a great conversation starter, and will often be the way people reconnect with friends and family to ask for information and share memories to build up the picture. Favourite family stories are enriched and added to by a multitude of voices.

It is a gift beyond compare for those we leave behind.

One day, the times we have lived through will be history lessons for new generations of children. A first-hand account will bring this history alive for children and great-grandchildren to come.

SelfieBook is envisaged as a free website and apps, not for profit, but to capture the values and legacy of lives well lived.