You see your grandchild more clearly than anyone. We help you write it down.
Trove Notes helps you write the notes you'd want your grandchild to read someday — the stories only you remember, who they are to you, what you hope for them long after. Some you'll write yourself. Some you'll write with the help of a 5-minute conversation. Either way, they end up in one place — a keepsake of everything you'd want them to know, ready for the day you give it.
Every grandparent carries stories no one else can tell. Most never write them down. And the hardest part: you won't always be here to tell them in person.
Not because you don't mean to. Because the moment never quite comes. You'd have to sit down. You'd have to find the words. And the visits are short, and then they're back home, and the story you meant to tell stays a story you keep meaning to tell.
So the things only you remember — what your grandchild's parent was like at that age, where the family came from, what you see in this child that no one else has noticed — those stay in your head. Unwritten, they fade. Written down, they're hers forever.
Trove Notes is the system that makes sure you actually get them down — and that they actually reach your grandchild someday.
Two things, working together.
The everyday noticing, and the deeper stories. You don't need to do both. Most grandparents end up doing both anyway.
Two parts.
The writing is the point.
The notes are what your grandchild actually receives someday — the stories only you can tell and what you saw in them. The monthly conversation is how those notes get written, even on the days you don't know where to start. The small moments you save along the way are what make them specific. You don't have to do both. Most grandparents end up doing both anyway.
For the stories only you can tell.
Once a month, on a rhythm you set, we'll ask if you have five minutes. If you do, we have a short conversation about your grandchild — or about your family, your own childhood, the way things were. You don't have to arrive with the right words. We ask. You answer like you'd talk to an old friend.
Then we draft a note to your grandchild in your voice. You read it, change anything that doesn't sound like you, and save it — or rewrite it yourself if you'd rather. It goes into their Trove Archive, waiting for the day you hand it over.
That monthly nudge is the part that matters most. You were always going to mean to write these down. We make sure you actually do.
Want to write one entirely on your own? Do it straight from the dashboard, anytime.
Your grandmother and I took you to the lake today — the same lake I learned to swim in when I was about your age. You were terrified of the water for exactly four minutes.
Then you decided you weren't. You waded in up to your waist, looked back to make sure we were watching, and went under on purpose. Came up grinning.
I want you to remember that you are a person who decides she isn't afraid anymore. Not the swimming — the deciding. Your mother does the same thing. So did mine. It runs in you.
— Grandpa
Catch the little things while they're still fresh.
The thing she said that stopped you cold. The way she holds a crayon just like her mother did. A story from before she was born that you don't want lost. Text it, jot it on your dashboard, or email it straight to your grandchild's private address — no app, no upload screens, no perfect words required.
Every moment you save lands in their Trove Archive and gives the next conversation something real to dig into. You don't have to capture anything to use Trove Notes. But the grandparents who jot as they go end up with notes that hold the details they'd otherwise have lost.
Or text a moment straight in — same number for every grandchild.
Do the conversations, the noticing, or both. Either way, every year around your grandchild's birthday, we help you turn everything you've saved into a book — yours to keep, on your screen or in print.
For when you don't know where to start.
Most grandparents have stories they want their grandchildren to have. Most never get around to writing them down — not because they don't care, but because sitting with a blank page is hard, and there's always next visit.
We don't ask you to write a meaningful note from scratch. We have a short conversation, ask the right questions, and draft the note for you. You decide if it sounds like you. If it does, save it. If not, edit it. That's it.
We'll nudge you about once a month — but you don't have to wait for us. Start a conversation whenever a story comes to mind, and skip the months you don't.
The conversation becomes the note.
A 5-minute conversation. A note saved forever. This is the entire product.
Dear Maya,
You started preschool this week, and it took me straight back to your mother's first day, thirty years ago.
You cried at the door. Then you turned around, wiped your face, and walked in all by yourself — didn't look back. Your mother did the exact same thing at the exact same age. I'm the one who remembers it, so I'm writing it down for you: you come from a long line of girls who are braver than they think.
Whatever you're afraid of, you'll walk in anyway. You already do.
— Grandma
A note that sounds like you, not like an AI.
Same grandparent. Same milestone. Two very different results.
My dearest Maya,
What a special milestone! As you start preschool, my heart is bursting with pride. You are growing into such a beautiful little girl, and I am so blessed to be your grandmother.
Always remember that you can be anything you set your mind to. The world is your oyster, and the sky is the limit. Never stop dreaming, and always know that Grandma loves you to the moon and back.
Congratulations on this big step!
Love always, Grandma
Dear Maya,
You started preschool this week, and it took me straight back to your mother's first day, thirty years ago.
You cried at the door. Then you turned around, wiped your face, and walked in all by yourself — didn't look back. Your mother did the exact same thing at the exact same age. I'm the one who remembers it, so I'm writing it down for you: you come from a long line of girls who are braver than they think.
Whatever you're afraid of, you'll walk in anyway. You already do.
— Grandma
Real note from a real conversation. Used with permission.
Every birthday, a new volume.
Most products give you the most value on day one. This one gives you something new on your grandchild's birthday, every year.
Every year of their life, in your hands.
Around your grandchild's birthday each year, we'll nudge you to put together their book — every moment, photo, conversation, and note from that year, laid out like a real book in a design you choose. Yours to download, and to print if you'd like.
Some grandparents give them to the grandchild each year as a tradition. Others save them all for one delivery — a graduation, a wedding, the day she becomes a mother herself. The volumes are yours to give when the time feels right.
Yours to keep. Forever. To outlast all of it.
A real book of a real year.
Here's what a Trove Notes volume actually looks like inside. Cover, the moments laid out by season, a full-page photo plate, and a section of Notes — the letters written directly to the child. These are real pages from the book.
You only pay per grandchild.
Less than a coffee a month — and everyone you invite to help is free.
- A keepsake volume for your grandchild, every year — their whole year as a real book you put together each birthday, in a design you choose
- Notes in your voice from a 5-minute conversation — anytime — we ask the questions, you just say yes
- Monthly nudges so a year never slips by — we check in so you never mean to and forget
- The whole family can contribute — free — the parents, the other grandparents, aunts, sitters; pay only per grandchild
- Their private family archive — every note, photo, and moment in one place (add by email or text)
- Yours to keep, forever — export anytime; the volumes are yours even if we're not around
| Per child | Yearly | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 1st child | $40 | $4.00 |
| 2nd child | $20 | $2.00 |
| 3rd child | $15 | $1.50 |
| 4th child & beyond | $10 each | $1.00 each |
The best time to start was the day she was born.
The second best is today.
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