Katie and I are really on a roll here, and we hope that you’re enjoying listening to the Memories Podcast. We have received so much great feedback so far, and truly appreciate all of our listeners. We’ve talked about establishing your Why when it comes to Memory Keeping, gave you a few clear steps for getting started with your own Memory Keeping journey, and now we’re going to share some fun and easy apps that can continue to help you get started.
So, let’s start with those apps--we’ve organized them into a few categories: documenting, photo storage, editing, and printing. But understand that this list is not ALL ENCOMPASSING. There are definitely tons of other apps out there...
APPS
Documenting
Your own phone camera
Dispo
One second a day
Day one & Journey
Photo storage - we will have a deep dive of this category next week
Google Photos
iCloud
Amazon Photos
Editing
Lightroom & Photoshop
Picmonkey
iMovie
Printing Photos
Chatbooks
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Polaroid Zip
Mpix
SOCIAL MEDIA
And you may have noticed that we didn’t mention any social media apps… and the reason for that is because apps like these give users false hope that their memories are archived and will be saved on the internet forever. While this is true in MOST cases, there are certain things to be aware of with all apps including social media.
Read your terms & conditions - on most social media applications you do not own all rights to your images/videos/etc. By sharing your photos on these apps you give these platforms certain rights to use and redistribute your photos. Give examples...
Getting your account hacked - hacking happens far too often (and maybe even a few of you have been hacked before). Normally there are ways to recover your accounts, but sometimes you’re not so lucky. That would mean that any photos/videos/etc. that you have on these social media accounts is
Social Media sites can go away - Who knows MySpace?
RECAP
Challenge - download 1-3 of these apps and start using them. Find out what works best for you. What works for us may not work for others. Find out what you love
Next weeks podcast is - Backing up your memories, might sound boring but it’s actually very important. There’s nothing worse than losing all the memories and your hard work.
