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Gather your life stories into a book.

Talk or type a memory, bring in what you've already written, and Lefty Writes keeps track of the people, places and moments in it, so you can shape them into a book.

Private, and by invitation for now.

Chapter 3 · The lake

The summer of 1962, my father packed the five of us into his green Ford and drove all night to Flathead Lake. Nobody slept. Nobody complained, either.

Found in this passage

  • When 1962
  • Person my father
  • Place Flathead Lake
  • Object green Ford
An example passage, not from anyone's book.

How it works

  1. Tell it, or bring it in

    Speak a story out loud or type it, or add what you already have: Word files, PDFs, plain text. One file or a whole folder.

  2. Claude finds the pieces

    Claude reads your writing and lists the people, places, objects, dates and themes, each pointing back to the exact words it came from.

  3. Shape it into a book

    Put events on a timeline, arrange them on a board, and gather passages into stories in the order you'd tell them.

Made for the way memories come back

Out of order, a piece at a time, and full of people. Lefty Writes keeps track so you can keep writing.

  • Talk or type a story

    Press Start talking and tell it the way you'd tell it at the table. Your words appear as you speak, to read over and fix before saving. Where a browser can't listen, type instead.

  • Bring in what you've written

    Word, PDF, text and Markdown, several at a time or a whole folder. Your originals are kept exactly as they are.

  • Every person and place, kept straight

    Each one gets a page: every name they went by, the events they're in, and every passage that mentions them.

  • A timeline that takes “around 1962”

    Memories don't come with exact dates. Put events in order on rough dates, then drag them into chapters on a board.

  • Saved stories and story ideas

    Gather passages into a story in the order you'd tell it, and see which threads in your writing could be stories of their own.

  • A map of how it all connects

    See who turns up with whom and where, and add your own notes and lines between people, places and ideas.

Give it a cover

Pick a painting from a library of public-domain art, add your title and name, and choose a layout. Seeing your book with a real cover makes it feel like a book, long before it's finished.

Your stories stay yours

Life stories are about real people. Lefty Writes treats them that way.

  • A book is seen only by the person who started it and the helpers they add.
  • Nothing in a book is ever public, and there are no share links.
  • When Claude reads your writing, it goes to Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, which doesn't train on it.
  • Lefty Writes helps you gather and track your story. What you publish, and how, stays your call.

Start with one story

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