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Naming people and things
The short answer: she says the name out loud, and circles the face while she says it. That is the naming.
A box of typed names is a database. "That's your grandmother, she hated that hat" is why anyone will still be watching in forty years. Everything below is about supporting that, not replacing it.
Naming someone in a story
- Start a story on the photo.
- Circle the face with a finger while saying who it is.
- That is it. The circle appears at that point whenever anyone plays the story, then fades.
If she circles the wrong person, Undo the last mark is on screen throughout. See telling a story.
Writing down who is in the family
Whoever looks after the archive can write down the family itself — who is whose parent, who is married to whom — in the admin console. Everything else is worked out from those two: brothers, cousins, grandparents and the rest are never typed in.
This is a job for one person on a keyboard, once. She is never asked to do it.
Labelling things in a photo
Not built Marking an object — "our first boat", "the old kitchen" — so it can be found later is designed and not yet built. Today, say it out loud in the story.
Automatic face recognition
Not switched on The archive can find faces in photos, and does not currently do it. That is deliberate rather than unfinished:
- Nothing about a face ever leaves your family's machine, so this would be running on hardware your family owns, and it has to earn its electricity.
- A wrong name attached automatically is worse than no name. It gets repeated, and eventually believed.
- When it is switched on, a name a person typed always wins and is never overwritten by the software changing its mind.
If you want it on for your family, ask us.
What a name is worth here
The names that matter most in this archive are not in a field anywhere. They are in the story, said by somebody who was there — which is also why a story is never deleted, only hidden.