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Two children's birthdays, kept for the grandparents

Camille and Julien keep a life timeline for Léa and Tom. Every birthday comes round on its own, the age is worked out for them, and the grandparents see the photos without a single group chat.

Camille and Julien have two children: Léa, six, and Tom, three. Like most parents, they have thousands of photos and no idea where any of them are. Birthdays were the worst: the photos were spread across two phones, a grandmother's tablet and a group chat nobody can scroll back through.

So they gave each child a life line on Vybz, and a third one to the family. Each birthday is a single moment that comes back every year. The grandparents, Jo and Marc, are contacts: they see what is shared with them, and they can add their own photos to it.

Their timeline

The timeline, simplified: one row per life line, a dot per moment, a bar for the moments that last several days, a star for the ones that mattered most. In the app, each dot opens its moment.

  • 1 Sept 2022

    Léa's first day at school

    Nantes

    LéaContacts only1 photo

  • 20 May 2023

    Tom's first sentence

    TomPrivate

  • 10 – 24 Aug 2024

    Two weeks at the grandparents'

    Quiberon

    FamilyContacts only1 photo

  • 14 Mar 2025

    6

    Léa's birthday

    Home, Nantes

    LéaContacts only3 photos

  • 2 Jul 2025

    3

    Tom's birthday

    Grandma and Grandpa's garden

    TomContacts only3 photos

A birthday that comes round every year

Léa's birthday6

14 Mar 2025

Home, NantesContacts only

Léa's birthday is one moment, created once, with the Birthday type. It comes back on its own every 14 March, and because Camille entered the year Léa was born, every year shows her age: 6 this year, 7 next year, without anybody changing a thing.

The moment is shared with the grandparents, and the photos stay with the year they were taken in: the 2025 cake does not turn up again on 2026. Grandma Jo added the balloon photo from her own phone the same evening.

2 comments

  • Grandma Jo

    Six already! The rainbow cake was a triumph, well done Julien.

  • Camille

    Léa wants the same one next year, only bigger. Of course.

Photos from the whole family

Tom's birthday3

2 Jul 2025

Grandma and Grandpa's gardenContacts only

Tom turned three in his grandparents' garden. Camille photographed the cake; Grandpa Marc, who had the best view of the kite, added his own photos. Each photo says who added it, and they all land on the same moment, in the same place.

A reminder arrives 72 hours before each birthday: time enough to find a present and to warn the grandparents.

2 comments

  • Grandpa Marc

    The kite stayed up a good four minutes. A family record.

  • Julien

    Thanks for the photos, they're better than ours!

Kept private

Tom's first sentence

20 May 2023

Private

Not everything is for sharing. Tom's first real sentence ("more pasta, please") is a private moment: only Camille and Julien can see it. Every moment has its own visibility, so the family sees the birthdays and not the rest.

Private moments still sit on the same timeline, between the shared ones, in date order. In ten years' time, they will be there for Tom too.

How they set it up

  1. One life line per child, plus one for the family: a free account holds up to five.

  2. Each birthday captured once with the Birthday type, with the year of birth so the age shows on every occurrence.

  3. Grandma Jo and Grandpa Marc invited by link: once they have opened it they are contacts, and each birthday is shared with them in one tap.

  4. A reminder 72 hours before each birthday, so nobody forgets the present.

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