Congratulations on starting your Baby Yearbooks journey!

So you’ve arrived at your home page—now what? Let’s dive in and create a test story. Play around and have fun — you can delete it later.

Here’s how to get started:

1. Choose a Chapter

Your story needs a home.

Pick a chapter where your story would live, like “The Pregnancy Journey” or “Welcome to the World”
Your story will show up in that chapter and in the “All Stories” list for easy access, sorted by most recently touched
You can always change chapters in the future if you decide to rearrange

2. Tap the Plus Button ➕

This is where the magic begins!

Tapping the plus button gives you lots of options to create your story. Add pictures, video, text, or audio

3. Create a story 🎥

You can start with any option but why not try recording a quick video selfie? You can easily delete this test story later

For this first story, keep it casual—maybe talk about the weather 🌦️
Once your video is processed, you’ll see a transcription (which you can edit anytime).
In your printed book, you can include the video, the transcription, or both—it’s up to you!

4. Add a Few Photos or Videos 📸

Add your best pix or vids! For this test, go ahead and add anything.

Tap the plus button inside your story to add pictures or videos wherever you like.
Mix and match—there’s no wrong way to do it.
The reason to take a few minutes every week or two to create a story is that it’s SO much easier to select from only your most recent media instead of having to go back a year from now to find the best of the best.

5. Set the Date 📅

Want to backdate your story to match a specific moment? No problem!

We auto-enter today’s date to save you several seconds on every story 😄
No need to have an end date. Those are useful for family trips that cover a week or maybe a visit with the Grandparents for a weekend. Otherwise, no need

6. Pick a Title 🖋️

Titles make your stories easier to find and add personality to your book. And it feels good to look at them on your home page 😄

Don’t stress — titles can be edited anytime.
If you leave it blank, we’ll just set it for today’s date too

7. Add a Cover Photo 🌟

Make your story feel extra good!

If you’ve added pictures, we’ll auto-select the first one as the cover. More seconds saved 😄
Prefer a different photo? No problem, just select a different one or upload a new one.
No photo yet? That’s okay—you can always add one later.
When you're at your homepage later, you'll see this picture in the tile for this story

BOOM! You’re Done! 🎉

That’s it—you’ve just created your first story! How easy was that?

Now that you’ve experimented, go ahead and create a real story whenever it suits you. Each story you create will be a special memory, and they’ll all come together to form a beautiful keepsake book.

Stay tuned for more tips and inspiration on our blog. Happy storytelling! 😊

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