Bookmarks and Views are live

A family archive has a lovely problem: it grows. The wedding albums andthe walk from last Sunday, the long reflections and the three-linestream posts — they pile up beautifully. Adding stories was never thehard part. Finding your way back — to the one that made you laugh, theone you weren't ready to finish, the one you'll want at Christmas — thatwas the hard part. This release is about the way back.

The quiet bookmark

There's now a small ribbon on every story, and a pill on every post in the stream. Tap it and the story is bookmarked — kept, by you, for you.
A bookmark here is not a like. There's no counter ticking up under anyone's story, no notification saying you did it, no list of names.Nobody knows what you've bookmarked - not the author, not the family.It's a message to your future self: this one. Come back to this one.
Your bookmarks gather from across every collective you belong to in one private place - My Bookmarks, in your profile menu. And wherever you're browsing, the stories you've kept wear a small gold flag in the corner of their card, a quiet you've been here before.
(For those who look after a collective: the admin page shows which stories the family keeps returning to — as totals only, never who. It turns out to be a lovely way to choose what belongs in a magazine.)

Views — a reading room of your own

My Views is a new way to read Storyus: one page that gathers storiesfrom all your collectives into something closer to a magazine than afeed — a proper hero, generous images, room to breathe. Not a wall ofthumbnails.
It opens on Fresh:  what's new across your family's worlds since youlast visited, with a subtle "new" badge doing the pointing. Flip toReturn and the same page becomes something else - your bookmarksfirst, then the archive's treasures, each with a small note about whyit's there. One facia for catching up; one for coming home.
Then make it yours. Filter to certain collectives, tags, years, justthe bookmarked, just the moments - and save that as a View with itsown name. "Grandpa's stories." "Summer, every year." Every view livesat its own web address, so you can bookmark it in your browser like anyfavourite page.
You can also share a saved view with the family. And here's the part wecare about most: a shared view shares the recipe, not the contents.Everyone who opens it sees only the stories they're already allowed tosee. Your intimate view of everything stays yours; the version yourcousin sees is theirs.
One more quiet control: don't show again. Every view can be gentlypruned - hide the stories that aren't for this lens, reversibly, andthe magazine becomes, in part, a curated one.
You'll find both in your profile menu - My Views and MyBookmarks - and the ribbon is waiting on the next story you read.Start with one bookmark: the story you'd want to find again in tenyears.