Ownership

Your family memories are stored as lightly formatted text files. They're readable by any text editor, now and in the future. Images are images, and are the quality is preserved at the level you choose.

Inheritance

FamShare treats family memories as actual inheritance: files you own, stored on devices you control, in formats that will remain readable decades from now. You can pass a hard drive to your children containing your family's digital history without depending on any company still existing. This is digital content that survives you, just like physical photo albums and handwritten letters survive previous generations.

Vendor agnostic

Vendor lock-in happens when your data is stored in proprietary formats or proprietary databases. You can access your content through the app, but if the app shuts down or you stop paying, your data becomes difficult or impossible to retrieve.

Application Agnostic

Every FamShare entry is a markdown file. Markdown is plain text with simple formatting conventions that have been around since 2004. The metadata (dates, author, sharing permissions) is stored in YAML frontmatter, another widely-used open standard.

You can open any FamShare file in:

If FamShare disappears tomorrow, your files remain fully accessible.

Markdown is an easy to use text formatting language. It supports images. It looks good as plain text or rendered.

Basics:

https://commonmark.org/help/