An archive should not feel like a warehouse.
Documents, photographs, letters, audio, video and records become part of one searchable archive.
A folder can store ten thousand photographs perfectly.
It still cannot tell you which twelve matter.
A filename can tell you when a document was created.
It may tell you nothing about why you kept it.
The Vault is where your material begins to gain structure.
Photographs can belong to people, places, years and stories.
Documents can remain connected to the project, event or decision that gave them meaning.
Audio and video do not have to disappear into anonymous folders.
And search becomes less about remembering the exact filename and more about remembering what you are actually looking for.
A photograph keeps the image. Context keeps the day.
You need an insurance document.
The Vault finds it.We hope The Vault will grow better at the hardest part: helping you see which twelve photographs matter, and why — with you deciding.
And we hope that what you bring in today will still open, and still make sense, in thirty years.
- Bringing material in
- Add files one by one, or bring in a whole folder.
- Your originals
- Kept as ordinary files, byte for byte, under their own names. They stay readable without Heliarko.
- Finding
- Search by meaning, not only by filename — on your own computer, also without the internet.
- Order
- Filter by year, month and kind of file, and add a note to any file.
- The trash
- Move a file to the trash, and restore it from there if you change your mind.
- Files on disk
- Not encrypted. Protect the computer and keep two backups.
The screen on this page was taken in Heliarko 1.0.14; these facts are checked in Heliarko 1.0.21.