The archivist for the modern family.
Note is a personal archivist you text with. It asks about the photos you take, turns two-minute replies into written stories, and delivers them as physical keepsakes families can hand down. Built first for new parents, in the years they most want to remember and are least able to write down.
Families create more memories than ever and preserve fewer of them. The average parent takes thousands of photos a year, and almost none carry the story. Baby books go unfilled, journals sit blank, and the meaning behind the pictures lives in one person’s head until it fades.
Note removes the sitting-down. One text a week, anchored to a photo just taken; a two-minute reply; a written story, shaped in the family’s own words, printed and mailed as physical keepsake. Gathered in minutes. Kept for generations.
Cereal in every bowl we owned, including the dog’s. You were four, and so proud of yourself that all five of us sat down and ate it.
What customers receiveA weekly archivist by text, a keepsake that saves the moment in time, and a digital archive that lasts forever.
How it worksNote prompts, the customer replies in two minutes, and the story is written, approved, printed, and delivered.
Why it feels differentNo app, no blank page, no sitting down. The product lives in the two places families already are: their texts and their mailbox.
“You only get to live or remember that moment once, and so we want to capture the important ones.”
Every family deserves an archivist. Today that begins with new parents. It becomes the layer that keeps a family’s stories across generations, gathered in minutes, kept for lifetimes, and delivered exactly when they matter most: to a child at eighteen, to a spouse on an anniversary, to a family after a lifetime. The photos already exist. Note is the company that keeps what they mean.
I’m Syd Porter. I spent six years at Oracle NetSuite as a top-1% Account Executive, building the operational systems behind consumer brands, and I’m completing my MBA at Columbia. I’ve kept a daily journal for over a decade, long enough to know that the stories we don’t write down disappear, and that almost no one has the time to write them down. Note is the archivist I believe every family should have. I’m building it with a small technical team in New York City.