The Story Guide Library
Everything your family needs to capture, preserve, and share the stories that matter most — from first memory to finished book.
Nine guides written by a professional storyteller with nearly 40 years of experience. Two free downloads, seven more inside the Vault.
We don't just give you a place to store stories.
We teach you how to tell them beautifully.
Most family story platforms hand you a blank page and a list of prompts. We've taken a different approach. Our guide library draws on nearly 40 years of professional storytelling and interviewing experience to help you capture stories with depth, feeling, and honesty — the kind your family will return to for generations.
Two guides are available as free downloads, no signup required. The remaining seven are waiting inside the Vault, ready to support you at every stage of your storytelling journey.
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Download these two guides and begin your family's storytelling journey today.
Crafting a Compelling Legacy Book
Discover why most legacy books fall flat — and how to create one that your family will genuinely treasure. Learn the 'curator not chronicler' approach, five different book structures, techniques for making stories come alive, and a step-by-step roadmap from first memory to finished book.
Drawing Stories Out of Someone You Love
The interviewing guide your family needs. Learn the art of asking questions that go beneath the surface, the extraordinary power of silence, how to go deeper without pushing, and how to navigate tricky moments. Includes a curated question bank organised by life theme.
Written by a storyteller,
not a software company
These guides were created by Nigel Miller, a producer and director with nearly 40 years of experience in immersive media and storytelling. From patient stories for global health companies to brand films for some of the world's largest organisations, Nigel has spent a career learning how to draw authentic stories out of real people.
Now he's channelling that expertise into something more personal: helping families preserve the stories that build resilience, strengthen identity, and connect generations.
Every family story told is a thread of resilience woven into the next generation.— The philosophy behind everything we build
Inside the Vault
Seven more guides, ready when you are
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Telling Stories That Come Alive
The most important guide in the library. Transform your stories from factual records into vivid, emotionally rich memories your family will feel, not just read. Covers sensory detail, honest emotion, bringing people to life, and quick tricks for better writing.
Where Do I Start? 50 Story Sparks
For the moment you sit down and think "I have no idea where to begin." Fifty curated story sparks organised by theme — people, places, childhood, turning points, family, love, work, and the small stuff — each designed to trigger a specific memory, not a generic topic.
Capturing Stories With Children
How to involve children in your family's storytelling — and why it builds their resilience. Covers age-appropriate approaches from toddlers to teenagers, the annual interview framework, connecting kids to family history, and the intergenerational interview.
Stories for Milestone Moments
Create meaningful story-based gifts for the occasions that matter most: milestone birthdays, weddings, retirement, memorials, and new babies. Includes a practical short-notice approach for when you only have a week, and templates for gathering stories from contributors.
Creating a Photo Book That Tells a Story
Go beyond the album. Learn the art of curation, visual narrative, layout that serves the story, and captions that add a layer your reader can't see in the image. Includes the 'three questions test' for every photo and pro tips on titles and opening pages.
Creating a Year Book Worth Revisiting
Capture the spirit of a year, not just the events. Learn what most people miss, how to structure beyond month-by-month, the year-at-a-glance page your grandchildren will study like archaeologists, and how to make yearbooks a family tradition that compounds over time.
Crafting a Compelling Legacy Book — Vault Edition
The complete in-Vault edition of our legacy book guide, with all the same storytelling wisdom plus practical references to Vault tools and features. Designed to sit alongside your stories as you build your book.
Your family's stories won't wait forever.
Start capturing them today.
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