Have you wanted to write a life story, a biography, yours or someone else's?
Writing life stories is hard. Huminz helps out by providing a structure, allowing you to add details as you go along.
Huminz adds context to the story by showing you what else was going on in the world. Your story then comes to life in strange and wonderful ways.
Make it as detailed or as simple as you want. Add events, photographs, and videos of yourself and your friends. Huminz makes it fun to rediscover it all.
Tell the story of a parent, friend, celebrity -- someone you’re interested in, someone whose life affects you, is interesting to you, whose life you want to preserve.
See your life story in different ways.... A book, a newspaper, a map of your life, a timeline, a slide show. Share with others.
Set up and get started in a few minutes.
Check out how things are done in Huminz in depth here
Add content to the chapters -- write more details, add pictures, video clips, and the people who made this chapter important. Huminz will also remind you what else was going on in the world that year, give you photos of where you were.
Huminz shows you your story in new and interesting ways, a personal newspaper, a map, timeline, slide show
Share by email, Facebook, Twitter, create a slide show for an event, print a book. You name it....
Stories are private. You own your story. We will never share your story or your information. You may share it as you see fit. If you like you can make your stories public to be enjoyed by others. You choose.
Check out a few stories created in Huminz. Be sure to try the various reading modes. Then go and create your own.
Check out how things are done in Huminz
Setting up an account with Huminz is easy. And free. It requires entering your name, email and password. You will receive a confirmation email to make sure we have the right address
Once you have set up an account you can access it by logging in with your email and password. You can always reset your password if you don't remember it.
On your Huminz home page you have the option of choosing an existing story or creating a new one. The big plus icon is used to create a new life story
Milestones are like scaffolding for the life story you are writing. Use the widget on the timeline to position life events. Milestones
Chapters are just like milestones but they have a story behind them. Content. Pictures, clips, people that can be added to them
Huminz displays life stories in different modes, each highlighting a different aspect of that story. Encouraging exploration
Huminz is designed to tell your life stories. Our goal is to keep your stories
alive, sharing them in a variety of forms both digital and physical..
See how it looks in Huminz
Answers to the most frequent quastions from our users.
Yes, it is. Huminiz's basic level is totally free. It allows you to write your story. Add your pictures, videos and friends.
Anyone who feels the urge to have their story told and shared. Family members who would like to preserve the family history and those amazing stories of their parents' lives. It can also be used as a tool for all ages to tell someone else or an historical figure story.
Writing the story
Just sign up and choose to create a new story. We recommend that you start with adding milestones for major events in life. Schools, work,weddings and kids. Look at the meanwhile column to remind yourself of major events in history.
Yes. You can write multiple stories at the same time.
While writing about a certain period in your life, “Meanwhile” gives a snapshot of the other events that were happening at that same time around you. As you scroll down these lists, they are bound to trigger long-forgotten memories from your past.
If you feel you hit a wall and don’t know how to proceed, click the “stuck” button for insightful questions to get your stories rolling again.
Click on the milestone you want to edit and use the "Make a chapter" button in the dialog box.
You can cut & paste text from any source. You can write in any application you are comfortable with and then copy it to the Huminz chapter.
Adding pictures, text, etc.
With our easy-to-use tools, you can tell your story in words, pictures, videos, and voice recordings, all in one place.
You can easily include photos from any phone or tablet. Our unique method allows you to seamlessly move any picture as you are editing your story.
You can easily add a video clip to any chapter. Video clips must be on YouTube in order to add them to your Huminz story. Once they are there you add them to Huminz by pasting their address into the video clip dialog.
We are working on adding audio notes to Huminz. We understand the importance of audio to the story and will have updates soon.
People is a unique feature of huminz that allows you to have mini stories about the important people in your story. People is also the way to invite others to see and participate in the story.
Sharing the story
Share by email, Facebook, Twitter, create a slide show for an event, print a book. You name it...
Each chapter has it's own privacy setting. You can share all or just some of the chapters in your story.
Absolutely, you can share by sending an email, on facebook or Twitter. Your friends do not have to be a Huminz user but we would love to have them writing and sharing their stories.
Printing your story
We are working with several partners on formatting the printed books - please stay tuned for updates.
We also love the newspaper format and are working with several partners on options for printing it - please stay tuned for updates.
User-centric design has been the focus of our work, as we have taken new, disruptive product categories from concept to market, including the world’s first digital prepress systems and the first pocket-sized interactive whiteboard solution. Formally trained in industrial design, we strive for quality, aesthetics, and ease of use. We are passionate about the human learning process and user-centric design for software and hardware systems.
Etan was founder and VP product in several startups. His work included multiple products ranging from civil aviation, medical applications, digital printing, image processing to 3D printing with companies like: Kodak, Canon, Polaroid, Spectrum Dynamics, XJET, Cloud Ahoy.
Rafi previously was CEO of Luidia Inc., a pioneer in portable interactive education technology and remote learning applications. Under his leadership, Luidia moved to profitability in less than two years, with a 5X increase in revenue run rates within 3 years of launch, and the eBeam product line won numerous accolades from top technology and education publications. Rafi holds over 30 patents in multiple fields.
This is a project of the heart.
Helpful resources for writing your life story
What part of your story do you want to be told after you are gone? What do you want your loved ones to remember about you? Is there anything that you wish someone had told you? Whatever your answers to these questions, you can be assured that someone will want to know.
The best way to approach memoir – the way that will keep you paddling even when the waters get rough – is by considering a particular problem that you’ve dealt with or a difficult moment in your life that has the elements of great narrative: a page-turning plot, interesting characters, and lots of conflict.
Even if you don’t ultimately use this particular memory in your overall narrative, getting into the habit of writing down memories will benefit you as a writer and help keep those memories fresh..
As a preparatory step in deciding how to write your life story, summarize key events you want to include. Try to write just two lines for each incident or scene you’re thinking of including
if you’re a beginner, creating an outline will certainly be of use, even if you decide to vary it later. Creating an outline means planning how you’re going to write the book and getting the structure down. You can be as general or specific as you like and you can divide the book into broad sections. For example, childhood, work, marriage, family, travel, retirement, and place all the events into the appropriate section in the outline.
In some ways, writing a memoir is like a months-long journaling session. This is especially true at the beginning, when you're first starting to gather the scenes you want to include..
Each of us has a powerful life story! Writing that story down helps you identify the core values and beliefs that have been foundational to your success. It gives it a voice. It creates connections. It inspires. As Robert McKee says, “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
We want to hear from you. Whether you want to start using Huminz or have run into an issue creating stories... Let us know.
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