Build toward stories, without pretending everything is finished.
The goal is a research workspace that gathers enough data, context, and evidence to tell richer stories about ancestors, places, communities, and eras.
Current
Enough is in place for real beta work: capture, merge, browse, inspect, draft, review, and publish intentionally.
Vault-backed people, places, events, sources, memories, documents, stories, and research tasks
Person context packs for AI-assisted writing and planning
Operations queue based on current research checks
Saved story drafts and private review workflow
Coming soon
The next layer is making the app feel like a story workshop instead of just a data store.
Story-first dashboard and person overview hierarchy
Story Studio review pages with explicit publish and unpublish actions
Public story pages at /stories/[id] with evidence and context
Clear beta-facing copy across homepage, features, and roadmap
Later
These are likely side tools, but they need to serve the main goal: better researched ancestor stories.
Photo, handwriting, and document transcription workflows
Locality, church, era, migration, newspaper, and historical context builders
Richer story publishing controls, prettier slugs, and collaborative review
Book, exhibit, and family-sharing surfaces built from the same evidence graph
Near-term priority
Make the private app excellent at research readiness and make public stories clear, grounded, and beautiful.