A local-first life archive for Chinese-speaking families
Turn Chinese memories into a book the next generation can read
Enso Shide connects memories, photos, places and verified public cultural context, then turns that material into a structured life book. The current project targets iOS 17 and uses SwiftData for its core private models.
A look inside
These screens are from the iOS app. Swipe through the years home, on-device book making, the spacetime map, Future Mail, cultural tides, and the companion.
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What the current code supports
- On-device Memory, Profile, Keepsake and CompanionState models.
- A deterministic on-device A4 PDF rendering path.
- Chinese and English content fields for intergenerational reading.
- Read-only public cultural context delivered over the network.
- A local guided-chat path; cost-bearing online AI is disabled in the v1 Release.
A precise privacy description
The core memory model is local-first and the public v1 requires no Ensō account. Public cultural content, Future Mail, and optional anonymous analytics use the network; cost-bearing online AI is disabled in this release.
Keep reading
FeaturesA code-backed account of Enso Shide's local memory store, cultural context, map, bounded companion interface and two-path book engine.Privacy boundariesThe privacy policy for the accountless Mystory Ensō v1: on-device data, optional online features, anonymous analytics, StoreKit subscriptions, export, and deletion.On-device book engineThe code-backed Enso Shide book pipeline: structured page sources, deterministic templates, pagination, image handling, and UIGraphicsPDFRenderer.