Reflections is an easy-to-use software product that guides you through a process that creates a collection of “e-books” about your life using a familiar encyclopedia style. Reflections’ intuitive interview process includes hundreds of built-in questions and topics to stimulate your memories and emotions that prompts thought and discussion on what has mattered most in your life. You can answer each question by typing or speaking into a microphone, add photos and videos into timelines, and recount places you’ve lived and worked on Reflections’ interactive map.
Each Reflections volume represents a building block of each person’s life story. Color-coded into four levels, each builds upon the other leading to the compilation of Reflections’ ultimate goal: sharable wisdom.
Start by organizing your thoughts around each focal point. The “Me” volume begins the journey of describing yourself. Your relationships build upon “Family” and “Friends,” and continue on the “Journey” – everything from where you grew up, had fun and got in trouble, to where you moved, worked and raised a family. “Regrets” may not be what you wished for, but nevertheless are today a part of who you’ve become. In the “Bucket List” are future wishes, while “Advice” brings wisdom from past experiences. “Ramblings” leaves room for more personal expression that may, as much as anything, define who you are to future generations.
Back to TopMe — Captures your essence and documents your favorite hobbies, foods, books, movies and places.
Family — Everyone is part of a family. Each member is special to you, and this volume is where you recall how each had their impact – even your favorite pets! Photos, audio clips and documents can be added to bring them to life.
Friends — Acquaintances, or friends for life, all have had an influence – and you’ve had an influence on them. Reflections lets you place people in different groups, making it easier to recall and place them in an order and timeline that makes sense of the many relationships you’ve had over a long lifetime.
Journey — This section brings chronology and sequence to the events, people and places in your life. A set of broad questions addresses each phase of life such as childhood, marriage, career and parenthood.
Including dates in your Journey events will show on your Timeline so that you and others can see what you’ve been up to and when. Each year can be opened to reflect a robust history of events and experiences over a lifetime.
Similar to the Timeline, when you include locations with your Journey events, they will show up on the Reflections’ Map to show where you’ve lived, worked and played throughout your life. You can zoom in and out of the places and paths of your life’s adventure.
Regrets — Though often painful memories, the misgivings in our life helped to form who we are, and influenced where we’ve found ourselves today. Disappointments and do-overs, regrets and failures, all the could’ve, would’ve, should’ves are all interesting... and of valuable influence within the wisdom we are passing along.
Bucket List — Everyone wishes for things they’ve always wanted to do and accomplish, people to meet and places to see – and everyone wants to see how far they can get in checking off their dreams!
Advice — You’ve learned a lot, and many following in your footsteps do not have the experiences nor the knowledge that you’ve earned over the years, many times the hard way. From raising children to financial advice, sharing lessons learned with future generations is the greatest gift.
Ramblings — Similar to the Advice volume, this volume lets you pass along opinions, passions and memories across wide-ranging topics such as Jobs and Working, Morals and Ethics, Politics, Religion, School and Education. All your ramblings work together to capture your character.
Authors answer questions, and invite family and friends as Guests to review what they've recorded. Reflections’ more than 400 Questions stimulate your memory and get you thinking and capturing information in an easy-to-use workflow of Volume → Category → Question → Answer.
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You can skip, or even add your own questions in each section.
Back to TopWritten Answers — A simple word processer is provided to type in answers, formatted at your direction and can include hyperlinks and additional data if you wish.
Recorded Answers — You can use Reflections’ recording feature to speak into your computer’s microphone to record your voice, all backed up with a broad range of audio editing capabilities.
Photos and Files — Reflections allows you to attach photos or other documents to any answer to any question, or to any family member, friend or Journey event. You can import almost any variety of image format from most devices including digital cameras, scanners and CDs. We can even help you digitize those photos stuffed in old shoeboxes!
Privacy — KDB Software is dedicated to security and privacy in all our products. Our Reflections software represents an “explicit” privacy model: no one can view any information unless you specifically authorize them to do so. Settings range from Completely Private, where only you or your Trustee are authorized, to Invited Guests Only, where you allow only authorized Guests to see your information.
Inviting Family and Friends — Once you’ve added a family member or friend to your Reflections, you can invite them to view your information. Your Guest will receive an email with a link asking them to accept your invitation, and after visiting our website and verifying their identity, they will have read-only access to all of the items in your Reflections that you’ve opened to them.
Reflections User Roles — There are four different types of users that can use the program:
- Member – A Member with a paid user license has the ability to write their life story, and can empower individuals to fulfill the role of Trustee for their account, or allow family and friends to view their story.
- Guest – A Guest of a Member has accepted an invitation from an existing Member, and can view only the parts of the life story that the Member has allowed them to see. Guests cannot make any changes to the information.
- Trustee – The Trustee of a Member is like the Executor of a will. Your Trustee can add and edit information at your direction, and has the authority to make decisions on the Member’s behalf should they become incapacitated or pass on. The Trustee has the power to authorize Guests and set privacy levels.
- Guide – KDB Software may authorize a user to act on behalf of another Member who is unable to use a computer or the software itself. Guides often act as “Interviewer” to the Member, and “ghost writes” the life story on the Member’s behalf.
