Welcome
Remembrancescan is a digital scrapbook for family history. These pages explain how to read a book, share memories, find people, and — if you help run a book — how to edit captions, organize pages, and bring in new material.
Pick a topic below, or use the menu on the left. Everything on this site is yours to browse in any order. If you’re new, start with Signing in & setup.
Signing in & setup
Your first visit, setting your display name, and switching families.
Privacy & analytics
What the app records, what stays out of analytics, retention periods, and how to ask for help with your data.
Reading a book
Turning pages, reading captions, and using Browse Pages to jump around.
Reading sequences
Open journal-like page ranges with the scan and text side by side.
Timeline & dates
Browse the book by date, see gaps in the chronology, and date pages.
Expert view
The optional two-page spread layout with thumbnails and keyboard shortcuts.
Captions & page text
Reading titles, captions, page text, translations, and person links.
Automatic processing
How captions and people fill in on their own in the background, and what the “Processing” chip means.
Comments & suggestions
Share a memory on a page, suggest a correction, and understand what shows up in What’s New.
People directory
Search family members, see their pages, and browse their face gallery.
Chat with the book
Ask questions in plain English and get answers from the book’s content.
People & Faces
Name faces, merge duplicates, and clean up the family’s people list.
Page groups
Divide a book into labeled sections with a summary for each.
Page links
Connect related pages within a book or across books in the same family.
Editing captions
Edit titles, bodies, page text, and translations — with full history.
Book description
Edit the short public description for a book or generate a draft with AI from the Pipeline page.
Adding pages
Upload scanned images and watch the AI pipeline do its work.
Crop, rotate & cover
Clean up crooked scans and choose the book’s cover image.
Photo enhancement
Restore and colorize old photos with AI, then refine with follow-up instructions.
Audio recordings
Record a voice memory for a page and trim it to just the best parts.
Reviewing suggestions
Accept or decline corrections that readers have sent in.
Read Signing in & setup first, then Reading a book. That’s enough to use the book. Come back for the rest when you need it.