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I'm kind of surprised there's no date element connected to the stories, if the samples are any indication:

https://www.storyworth.com/sample-story/nancy

By "date", I mean, the day or era that the stories take place in. If my parents enter a bunch of these stories in it'd be nice to have a way to view them besides as a list of headlines.

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Hi Dan, good suggestion. You will be able to add more metadata to the stories down the line (dates, maps, etc). That will open up a lot of cool visualizations (timeline, map, etc). It could also be fun to pull in related data from that time period, for example newspaper headlines or archival photos.

The reason I haven't added this yet is that I've focused on the writing experience. Because most of the stories are written via email, there isn't a structured way to add metadata, so it has to come as a secondary step (either automatically extracted, or annotated by family members)

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