Events and the story

What an Event is

An Event has a name, the way you would say it (“Family beach trip 2024”, “Emma’s 5th birthday”), a first and last day, the people who were there, the places, and other names it goes by. One Event can cover many Moments, and two can overlap (a birthday in the middle of a vacation). A photo is in an Event only when you put it there; the dates alone never decide. Events live in Organize › Events, in the Events row at the top of Memory Lane, in Tag the Moment and in search.

Putting photos in an Event

Three ways, all the same list:

• + Event on the Gallery’s selection row, or on a Moment’s header for the whole Moment. The list shows the past Events covering those dates, newest first, with New event at the top already filled with the photos’ dates. Tap one and the photos are in it at once (“Added 12 to Zoo trip”).
• Tag the Moment › Event tab: type a few letters to find any event, or pick Last used, then Apply. See Tag the Moment.
• Search: when nothing matches what you typed, the card offers Make it an event with your words as its name.

An Event’s dates grow as you add photos from other days, so one Event can follow a whole trip. Choosing an Event while tagging lists its people and places as From the event picks, unticked: you tick who is in the frame and which stop this was.

The story

The story is a sentence or a paragraph, in your words, written onto the photos themselves and into every capsule and gift. Write it in three places:

• On one photo: open it full screen and tap the tag icon for the Details strip (People · Places · Tags · Story), or tap Edit beside the big photo in Tag the Moment. A photo in an Event that has no story yet is offered the Event’s name as a start.
• On several photos: select them and tap Tag in the bottom bar. A story you type is added only to photos that have none; if some already have one, Livo asks whether to Keep Theirs, Add Where Empty or Replace Theirs. Nothing is written until you tap Apply.
• On a Memory: the canvas has its own story, read aloud if you record it; see Making a Memory.

Show Names Instead of “I” in Settings changes how a story reads on screen only; what you wrote is never rewritten.

Tags

A tag is one word or two (“cabin”, “first day of school”) for things that are not a person, place or event. Add them on one photo’s Details strip, or on a selection with Tag, where the tags the photos already have are listed, each with a minus that takes it off every selected photo. Livo never adds a tag on its own. The list of all your tags, with rename and merge, is a Curator tool under Organize.

Undo

Every save from these screens has an Undo that takes the last one back exactly, and in Tag the Moment you can undo as many steps as you like.