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i am guilty of being a serial documenter (aka too sentimental for my own good) and am honestly too self-conscious to dump everything with abandon on my instagram. here, i love scrolling through all my old photos and getting reminded of what i did each week, and there’s og social functions for the real, no-pressure homies. you can send postcards!! and make monthly / yearly recaps!! the most delightful social app to celebrate the passing of time.
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I love this app it’s like a mix between an Instagram weekly photo dump and BeReal. The best thing about it is that it’s close friends only (like BeReal) but I can’t convince my friends to get on it so I’ll try and convince you guys. Hopefully it will help me do more fun stuff and actually take pics of that stuff. Even if none of my friends join I’m still gonna be on there documenting my life for me.
Jan 30, 2025
if you like to take photos, you definitely need this app
retro helps you built an archive of your life. you can upload a lot of photos made in different time, create photo albums from trips or from some events, you can add friends and send them your pictures as postcards
the app is free and there's no ads there!
if you gonna download it, you can add me✨
https://retro.app/i/krawleek
Aug 19, 2024
i went through my instagram and looked at all the posts and all the slides and wow, my friends all look so happy. i miss being the person who takes a million photos because i captured so many happy moments. that side of me still comes out in certain friend groups but theese days i feel like i have less inclination of reach for my camera. some people say it's living in the moment but for me part of living in the moment is the craving to capture it. people criticise social media for only showing the good parts of life, and i absolutely get that, but it's fun to look at when it's yours and you forget how whimsical and lovely life can be sometimes.
lot of yap to say that i love taking photos and i adore my friends but it's par for the course at this point <3
Feb 17, 2025
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an occasional part of my pre-bed routine from 2023—requires time investment……but make the ai work for you!!
Feb 8, 2024
used the five metal shop one last year but it seemed a little too precious and i never ended up ripping any of the pages. got this one for 4$ in chinatown and it's a fun morning ritual. i use the torn pages for random notes each day, and thinking i'll give my friends the ones of their bday. maybe i'll finally learn the lunar calendar this year!
Feb 7, 2024
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i met some of my now dearest friends during 2020 in a leftist asian american podcast discord server while we listened to our own diy radio and had book club and thought too hard about things. it is one of the best things that’s happened in my life. also just a very great origin story to recount irl.
Feb 8, 2024