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Your personal life timeline, powered by AI.

Build a structured, visual record of every job, home, journey, and milestone. Generate a Life Resume. Write your story with AI. See it all on one screen.

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Alex Chen38 chapters · 1986–present
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Junior Dev
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Eng Director
Founder
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Boston
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MIT CS
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March 2018
Joined Stripe
San Francisco, CA

Most people carry their life history in a dozen disconnected places.

LinkedIn for the career. Photos buried in a phone backup. A Google Doc from 2015. A memory of the year everything changed. The result is a life that happened — but was never quite recorded.

Fragmented

Your story is spread across apps, folders, and memory — with no single view of the whole.

Fading

Details disappear faster than you think. Timelines blur. Context gets lost.

Unexamined

Without structure, patterns are invisible — even ones that shaped everything.

Unshared

The people who come after you can't access what was never organized.

So we built something
LifeCharted
See your entire life on one screen for the first time. Then understand what it means.

A Gantt-style timeline spans every domain — career, education, home, travel, relationships, health, and achievements. An interactive world map pins everywhere you've been. AI surfaces patterns you'd never find on your own. Your Life Library turns your history into a Resume, a Story, Stats, and AI Insights — all generated from your actual timeline.

Structure, clarity, and meaning for your entire life.

A Gantt-style timeline spans every domain — career, education, home, travel, relationships, health, and achievements. An interactive world map pins everywhere you've been. AI surfaces patterns you'd never find on your own. The goal is simple: see your entire life on one screen for the first time. Then understand what it means.

01 — Timeline

See the full arc of your life at a glance.

A Gantt-style timeline spans your entire life across every domain — career, residence, education, travel, relationships, health, and achievements.

  • Multiple lanes for every dimension of your life
  • Filter, search, and zoom to any period
  • Spot patterns you never noticed before
Learn more about Timeline →
Your Life Timeline
Work
Early roles
Product Lead
VP Product
Edu
Stanford
MBA
Home
Austin
San Francisco
Seattle
Travel
EU
JP
SA
AU
Milestone
Grad
Promotion
Book pub.
Life chapters
College Years
New York Chapter
Current Chapter
Work
Intern
Designer
Lead
Home
Boston
New York
SF
02 — Life Chapters

Name the chapters of your life.

Define the great periods — College Years, a decade abroad, your founding chapter — as named eras that span the full timeline. Every event suddenly has a story above it.

  • Name life periods with month-level precision
  • Five curated era colors: Sage, Forest, Gold, Mist, Sand
  • Open-ended eras for chapters still being lived
  • Click any era to highlight it and dim everything else
03 — Quick Add

Add a chapter in one sentence.

Type or speak anything — “Joined Netflix as Senior Engineer in 2019” — and LifeCharted parses it into a structured event. AI handles the extraction; you review and confirm.

  • Natural language entry — type as you think
  • Voice capture for adding chapters on the go
  • AI extracts title, date, location, and lane automatically
  • Review before saving — you're always in control
Quick Add
Joined Netflix as Senior Engineer, 2019
AI parsed →
Senior EngineerNetflix2019Work
Senior Engineer · Netflix
2019 — Present · Work
CV Import
Drop your CV or LinkedIn export
PDF · DOCX · JSON
VP of Product · Stripe
2018–2023 · Work
San Francisco, CA
2016–2023 · Home
Harvard MBA
2010–2012 · Education
Import 12 events →
04 — CV Import

Your existing history, imported in minutes.

Upload your CV, LinkedIn export, or paste your résumé. LifeCharted maps it to your timeline automatically — every role, school, and city extracted and filed.

  • Supports PDF, DOCX, and LinkedIn JSON exports
  • AI maps each entry to the correct lane and date range
  • Review, edit, and confirm before anything is saved
  • Years of history added in minutes, not hours
05 — My Story

Your life, written into a narrative.

LifeCharted reads your entire timeline and generates a written narrative of your life — from full autobiography to a short professional bio — in your voice.

  • 6 narrative styles: autobiography, chapter summary, professional bio, and more
  • Grounded in your actual data — not generic AI filler
  • Pinnable versions — share a snapshot, not a live feed
  • Regenerate anytime as your timeline grows
Learn more about My Story →
Life Story · Chapter Summary

“The decade between 2010 and 2020 was defined by movement — four cities, three industries, and a growing clarity about what kind of work actually mattered. Each relocation arrived just as something else was ending, as if geography and reinvention were always traveling together.”

CareerResidencePatterns
Life Resume · Chronological
Alex Chen
NYC · 38 chapters · 1986–present
Career
Education
Residences
06 — Life Resume

A résumé that covers your whole life.

Not just your last three jobs. The Life Resume pulls every chapter — career, education, homes, achievements — into a polished document built for a life fully lived.

  • 6 modes: chronological, skills-first, hybrid, academic, expat, highlights
  • Shareable as a link or exportable as a PDF
  • Automatically updates as your timeline grows
  • Includes world map thumbnail of everywhere you've lived
Learn more about Life Resume →
07 — Life Stats

The numbers behind your story.

How many cities have you called home? Which decade had the most change? Life Stats turns your timeline into a set of numbers that surprise you — and reveal how much you've actually lived.

  • Events logged, cities lived, countries visited, years covered
  • Most eventful decade and career tenure averages
  • Continent count and travel patterns
  • Refreshes automatically as you add more chapters
Learn more about Life Stats →
Life Stats
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Events logged
12
Cities lived
28
Years covered
4
Continents
18
Countries
8
Career roles
Most eventful decade
2010–2020 · 23 life events
Career Pattern
AI

Your three biggest career leaps each came within 12 months of a major relocation. The pattern is remarkably consistent across 20 years.

CareerResidence
Life Scope
AI

You've lived in 5 cities across 3 countries, averaging 6.4 years per home — longer roots than you probably think.

ResidenceTravel
Decision Point
AI

Your move to San Francisco in 2014 preceded your two strongest career years. Location and momentum are connected for you.

ResidenceCareer
08 — AI Insights

AI that reads patterns across your whole life.

LifeCharted's AI works across every chapter to surface patterns you'd never find on your own — career leaps tied to relocations, stretches of intensity followed by quiet, the shape of your decades.

  • Category-based insights: Career, Travel, Health, Education, Relationships
  • Pattern recognition across your full timeline
  • Save insights you want to keep; dismiss ones that don't resonate
  • Refreshable — generate new observations as your data grows
Learn more about AI Insights →
09 — Places

Chart everywhere your life has taken you.

Every city you've called home, every country you've visited — pinned to an interactive world map with your own story attached.

  • Automatic pins for all residences and travel
  • Click any pin to open your story from that place
  • See the geography of your whole life at a glance
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ResidenceTripCurrent home
10 — Sharing Center

Share exactly what you want. Nothing more.

The Sharing Center gives you surgical control over who sees your history. Share a pinned document version with specific people — not a live window into your entire account.

  • Share by email, SMS, or direct link
  • Audience scope: Public (anyone with link) or Trusted (invited contacts only)
  • Version pinning — recipients see a snapshot, not a live feed
  • Revoke access anytime, instantly
11 — Life Interview

Tell your story. AI builds the timeline.

A guided conversation with Claude AI captures the arc of your life in one sitting — career, education, homes, relationships, and milestones — while you talk. LifeCharted extracts the events; you confirm what's right.

  • 6 guided chapters: Roots, Education, Work, Places, People, Milestones
  • Speak or type — voice mode transcribes and extracts in real time
  • AI pulls structured events as you talk; confirm, edit, or skip each one
  • Pauses and resumes across devices — pick up exactly where you left off
Roots ✓Education ✓Work →PlacesPeopleMilestones
LifeCharted AI

“You mentioned finance after college — which firm was your first, and when did you start?”

Joined Goldman right after graduation in 2001, left for a startup in 2004

✦ ExtractedWork
Goldman Sachs
2001 – 2004
Confirm
Edit

Your story. Your rules.

LifeCharted is built on a simple principle: your life data belongs to you and nobody else. No ads, no data sales, no hidden tracking — ever.

Private by default
Nothing leaves your account without your explicit action.
Export anytime
Full data export in open formats — always, no questions asked.
Zero ads. Ever.
No tracking, no ad targeting, no data marketplace. Full stop.
AI is optional
Every AI feature is opt-in. You control what it sees.
18+ only
LifeCharted is designed for adults reflecting on a life already lived.
  • Share only specific chapters, or nothing at all — granular by event
  • Version pinning on shared documents — recipients see a snapshot, not a live feed
  • No credit card required for the beta — access is invite-based
  • AI features never train on your data without explicit consent
Read our privacy approach →

Built for people with a lot of life to chart.

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For retirees

Decades of career, family, travel, and milestones — finally organized in one place. Share your story with children and grandchildren who never knew the early chapters.

See how retirees use it →

For expats

Multiple countries, languages, careers, and homes — the complexity of a global life deserves a structured record. Chart where you've been and what you've built along the way.

See how expats use it →

For parents

Your history is your children's inheritance. Capture the decades before they arrived, the milestones they remember, and the story they'll want to know someday.

See how parents use it →
A note from the founder

Someone once asked me how many cities I'd lived in. I had to think about it. I got it wrong on the first try, and went back and counted on a map.

That bothered me more than it should have. I'd lived those years. I'd packed every box. And I still couldn't tell you, with any confidence, how many places I'd called home — or which year I changed careers, or what was happening the week before the best decision of my life.

The facts were everywhere. LinkedIn knew the jobs. A Notes app held a few half-finished journals. iCloud remembered the days I'd had a camera out. Memory filled in the rest, badly. No single view existed of the whole.

Then I started thinking about everyone else. About the stories my grandfather took with him. About my parents, whose timeline I have only the vaguest grip on. About friends I've known for twenty years and couldn't put in order if I tried.

A life is too big to hold in your head. So is the life of anyone you love.

I built LifeCharted because I needed it for myself. We are building it for everyone whose stories deserve a place to live.

— Jon, founder

Up and running in minutes.

No complicated setup. Start with what you know, and let LifeCharted grow with you.

01

Get your invite

Join the waitlist or enter an invite code to claim your spot in the beta.

02

Log your chapters

Add jobs, homes, travels, and milestones. Start with the big ones — fill in detail over time.

03

Explore your story

Switch between Timeline, Map, Relationships, and AI Insights. Discover patterns you never saw.

04

Help us shape it

Beta users get a direct line to the team. Your feedback decides what we build next.

There's nothing else quite like it.

Ancestry documents the past. Day One captures the moment. LifeCharted is for the living — structured, visual, and built for understanding your whole story.

FeatureLifeChartedAncestryDay One
Designed for living users✓ YesPartial✓ Yes
Domain-based timeline structure✓ Yes✓ YesNo
Visual timeline / Gantt view✓ YesNoNo
Named life chapters / eras✓ YesNoNo
World map view✓ YesNoNo
AI-powered insights✓ YesNoNo
AI-generated Life Story & Resume✓ YesNoNo
CV / resume import✓ YesNoNo
Voice capture✓ YesNoNo
Life statistics & patterns✓ YesPartialNo
Privacy-first✓ YesNo✓ Yes

Your life deserves to be kept.

Join the waitlist and be among the first to chart your story — or enter your invite code to get started today.

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