What's new in Keepsake

New

• Book tab: You can now set your book's title, colour, cover and chapters while the stories are still coming in.
• Reprints: You can now order more copies of any book you've printed, or reprint it with everything added since.
• Volumes: You can now carry on in Volume 2 when a book is full or printed.
• Story by credits: You can now credit a story to the person who told it.
• Project chat: Every project now has a chat for everyone in it, beside the stories.
• Time Machine: You can now step back through earlier versions of a story and restore one.

Improvements and fixes

• Admins: Admins can now shape the book with the owner: chapters, covers, volumes and printing.
• Roles: The Editor role is now called Writer.
• Photos: Photos you delete from a story now wait 30 days in Recently deleted.
• eBooks: Every printed edition now has one eBook, shared with everyone in the project.
• Stories: Stories now open with their photos in a pane beside the writing.
• Editor: Photos you add now go after the line you're on, and no longer land inside a quote.
• Invitations: Accepting an invitation or a gift now shows you the project before you sign up.
• Settings: Account and project settings are reorganised into clearer sections.
• Help centre: Every guide is now searchable, with a guided tour of your project in the Help menu.
• Printing: Fixed long chapter titles running past the page number on the contents page.
• Printing: Fixed long titles and author names running off the cover.
• Stories: Fixed Writers being unable to delete their own story.

• Stories: Fixed stories you hadn't opened in a long while sometimes failing to open.
• Stories: Fixed opening an older story changing when it was last edited.
• Stories: Every story now keeps an extra safety copy behind the scenes.

New

• Family activity notifications: You can now get a note when someone starts or finishes a story, or finishes a chapter.
• Friendlier lost pages: A link that goes nowhere now lands on a clear page with ways back.

Improvements and fixes

• Errors: When something goes wrong, the message is clearer and easier to send me.

New

• Pin a question for everyone: You can now pin a question to the top of everyone's queue.
• Ask someone specific: You can now pick the people a question is for, and only they'll see it.
• Notes and photos on questions: You can now add a hint or a photo to a question to jog a memory.

Improvements and fixes

• Projects: Projects open noticeably faster, especially ones with lots of stories.
• Streaks: Streaks now follow your own time zone and the time you actually spend writing.
• Streaks: Fixed a first streak not starting at day one.

New

• The Keepsake journal: A new front page with featured articles, and a library you can filter by topic.
• Conversation starters: A prompt of the moment to take to the dinner table or the phone.

Improvements and fixes

• How it works: The page now walks you through getting started, step by step, with real screens.
• Gifts: Fixed a gift occasionally being created twice at checkout.

• Projects: Fixed leaving a project you were invited to.
• Website: Pages on the website load faster.

New

• Slash commands: Type a slash to add a heading, list, quote or photo without leaving the keyboard.
• Drag handles: You can now drag any paragraph or photo to a new spot.

Improvements and fixes

• Printed books: The spine is now sized to your page count, so the title sits right.
• Printed books: Fixed a thin white edge on some printed covers.

New

• A new couple's story: Sixteen new chapters of questions, from the first hello to the life you built together.

Improvements and fixes

• Chapters: The first chapters of a couple's story now have their own illustrations.
• Questions: Fixed questions using the wrong person's name in couple's projects.
• Chapters: Fixed the story count when you delete a chapter for good.

New

• Copy a project: You can now copy a project, with or without the people in it.
• Prices in your currency: Book prices now show in Australian, US or Canadian dollars, pounds or euros.
• Chapter illustrations: You can now choose the artwork on each chapter.

Improvements and fixes

• Questions: You can now select several questions at once to hide or queue them.
• Writing: The full screen writing view now has its own toolbar, photos included.
• Printed books: New chapter opening pages, and an option to show the blurb on every page.
• Projects: Fixed people with editing access not being able to save project details.

• Gifts: Fixed being asked to finish setting up your account after accepting a gift.
• Stories: A story with no words yet now shows a gentle placeholder.
• Website: You can now flip through a sample printed book on the website.

New

• Write together, live: Family can write in the same story at the same time, and see each other as they type.
• A question for every story: A library of questions for life stories, couples, weddings, reunions, memorials and new parents.
• Photos and drawings: Drag photos into a story, crop and arrange them, or sketch something by hand.
• Comments: Comment on any story, reply, and react, so the whole family can add what they remember.
• A printed hardcover book: Choose and order your stories, design the cover, and get a hardcover book posted to your door.
• Gifts: Give Keepsake to someone you love, with printing credits included.
• Roles: Choose who can write, who can comment, and who can only read.
• Stories about two people: A project can be about two people, like a couple or a pair of siblings.
• Recently deleted: Deleted stories and chapters wait in Recently deleted, so you can bring them back.
• Writing streaks: A gentle streak to help you keep writing, a little at a time.