Keepster Moments
At Keepster, we know that so much of life happens right there, on our mobile devices. With the amount of time we spend on our phones, it’s certainly surprising that we often forget about one thing: the life found in those messages. While we’re busier than ever, using our phones for so many things, we’re capturing moments, milestones, memories and our texts are telling those stories. Read how using Keepster has impacted the way users view their messages!
Text Messages for Mental Health Check-ins: The Do’s and Don’ts
How you reach out matters. These tips will help you craft caring & supportive text messages so you can be there for the ones that need you
If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a check-in text, you know just how helpful they can be. It doesn’t magically lift the burden of whatever you’re going through, but just knowing that someone cares enough to reach out provides some much-needed peace of mind—even if you’re not ready to talk yet.
That’s why text messages are such ...
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How to Share Photos & Memories from Your Recent Trip (Group Edition)
Easily organize & share group texts & photos from your vacation with these simple tips
From hatching the idea in the group chat to bringing it to life, every moment of your vacation deserves to be remembered. Capturing these memories allows us to relive them again and again and share them with the friends and loved ones we experienced them with.
But if you’ve ever been a part of one of these group threads, you know what usu...
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Good Conversation Starters & Prompts for Text Messaging
Nervous about sending the first message? Break the ice and spark deeper chats with our text conversation starters.
Need help getting that text conversation started? You’re not alone.
In today’s world, it’s not uncommon to start conversations in DMs on social media and then move to text messaging or other chat platforms.
Whether you’re online dating or a friendly conversation turned into a professional opportunity, there are tons of scenarios where it’...
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Saving Text Messages From A Loved One Who Passed Away
Learn how to memorialize & relive your most precious text conversations with dearly-departed loved ones
You shared unforgettable memories, they taught you things that will stick with you forever, and they impacted your life like no one else could.
There are no words to describe what it’s like to grieve someone who held a special place in your heart. And once they’re gone, every piece of themselves they left behind—no matter how small—is pricele...
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How To Make a Book that Showcases the Pictures and Messages That Mean Most to You
Tips for crafting custom stories from messages and photos you’ve sent in-real-life (IRL).
Making a book that showcases the pictures and messages that mean most to you
When you're creating a custom book, think about those special events and moments that you can always look back and reminisce about. The special part about custom books is that they can bring you back to a moment in time, like a time capsule. There’s no better portal ...
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Gen Z is Turning Love Chats into Books
Modern Tips for Romance Online
Take your love chats to the next level this Valentine’s Day with these Generation Z inspired tips for your online romance. Learn some key strategies so you can secure the best gifts to convey the depths of your admiration. Tell the one you love just how much you truly care about them and the memories that you’ve shared together.
In order for ...
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Resolution Hacks: Reflect on Milestones and Set Intentions via Text Messages
Tips to Create Digital Vision Boards for Better Results
A common practice during the new year is making plans to change habits or reflecting on ways to better an aspect of your personal life. These goals or changes are known as “New Year Resolutions”, we all make them each and every year. Maybe it’s to stay in shape or to be more patient. Did you know that you can give a gift to someone who is tr...
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Keepster Helps You Generate Ideas for Your own Customized Book
Fun Tips for Creating a Customized Book with Text Messages
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Using Keepster Can Help You in Creating Your Customized Book
Feeling a little stressed or stumped trying to create your own customized book idea? You’ve come to the right place. We've come up with a list of ways you can get your creative juices flowing and slip right into the groove of making your own personal, customized book. C...
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Tyler’s Engagement Story with Keepster
Unique, Creative Engagement Idea: A Custom Proposal Book
We get excited every time a customer shares a story about the impact that a Keepster book made. Today, we're here to share how Tyler N. used Keepster for the ultimate unique engagement proposal idea. He created the cutest custom book based on his romantic text message history. The book was designed as an unforgettable tool to help him pop the ...
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Midori saved precious iPhone Messages in a Memorial Book to keep in a Memory Box
After losing her boyfriend a customer tells us about the Keepster message book that she made to save their texts.
Midori A., a verified customer, captured on video the moment when her Keepster message book arrived and to our astonishment, shared it on social media. In the post she shows herself, opening up the package that she’d been waiting for with enormous anticipation. Inside the box was the Keepster message book that she’d made for herself, filled with...
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Why my Keepster Message book is better than a photobook
A Keepster book of photos & favorite memories sprang to life in an extraordinary way when I added the texts from the years & years of our groupchat.
When my college friends and I moved into our first off-campus house, we had no idea what was in store for us then - or for the years ahead. We had gone from our dorm rooms with roommates and RAs and dining halls to a house that was all ours. Anyone who has lived with five women in one house knows it’s an all-consuming and very wild ride. The f...
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Celebrate This Pride Month with a Smile … and a Gift Book for Your Favorite LGBTQIA Person
When you can’t meet in person to celebrate, texted conversations, smile emojis, and photos can provide big benefits.
Ah, the Joys of Seeing Smiles in Person!
One thing that Covid certainly taught us, is that keeping in touch with loved ones by texting conversations has proven to be an invaluable lifeline. Fortunately, as more and more people are becoming vaccinated, we can start seeing those texted smiles in person.
What better timing than June to finall...
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Meet the Modern-Day Baby Journal: A book Filled with The Texts That Tell Our Surrogacy Story
Two Dads, one little girl, and a whole lot of messages and memories to keep forever. The story of one father’s journey to digital baby booking, with Keepster.
You know the saying when the student is ready, the teacher appears? I’d say the same goes for Keepster - the service that allows you to turn favorite messages into printed books, whose Instagram ad interrupted my doom-scrolling late one night.
“Turn meaningful messages into professionally printed message books!” the ad teased. Ready to welco...
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Why a Keepster Book Makes for a Fun Bachelorette Party Gift, Even When COVID Crashes It
I decided to turn the texts, chats and photos that captured my best friend’s virtual bachelorette and bridal experience into a custom Keepster book: a professionally printed, friendship keepsake book filled with the messages and memories from a truly unforgettable time.
My best friend was planning to marry her high school sweetheart in front of 150 nearest and dearests, on a sunny Spring day. Her mom hoped to host a beautiful shower. I planned to throw one wild bachelorette party. We had months of celebrations to look forward to.
COVID had other plans.
Addy has Crohn’s disease - planting her firmly in the...
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My Best Friend’s Texts Are Getting Me Through 2020, Even Halfway Across The World
My best friend is my unpaid therapist, and I couldn’t face a global pandemic without her texts.
7 months into the most tumultuous, tragic, up-ending year our generation may ever live through, I can confidently say this: my best friend (and her messages, even nearly 6,000 miles away) are what have kept me sane.
I’ll admit, my best friend Sam deserves a Nobel Prize for her work as my unpaid therapist and... WhatsApp deserves an honorable ...
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Our Marriage Counselor Gave Us Texting Advice: It Worked
“Date your spouse. Digitally.”
Author’s Note:
This piece was originally written in February 2020 - pre-pandemic. My husband and I are healthy, safe, at home, and forever grateful we still like each other after quarantining together for 117 days (and counting).
Our marriage counselor tapped her hefty, silver pen against the notepad that never left her lap, shifting her ...
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I Turned My College Freshman’s Texts into an Awesome Book of Memories
Turns out, It’s the Sweetest Gift I’ve Given Her
Thanks to a Keepster ad, I got to create what my daughter now swears is the “cutest present I’ve ever given her”: a beautiful book filled with our texts and chats, to remember the milestones and special little moments of her freshmen year.
College came too fast, didn’t it? Maybe it’s because my daughter is an only, or maybe because we mercifu...
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Creating a Keepster Book was the Quarantine Activity I Didn’t Know I Needed...
Baking Bread is Great ... but Making Keepster Books is Better
I baked. I did yoga. I organized. I think I finished Netflix, in its entirety. I read. I worked. I baked some more. I sent care packages, text messages, and “I love yous” at an alarming rate, and even still: I felt hopeless, helpless, and lonely.
I didn’t need an activity to busy my mind or hands...I needed something to highlight the joy of w...
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Dating in the Age of Corona
2020: The era of Digital Dating, Global Pandemics, and...Tinder success?
Before COVID-19 flipped the world upside down, I was firmly single. So totally single.
Though so many I knew had sunk into serious monogamy, even matrimony - seemingly after a few months of Tinder-ing, Bumble-ing, messaging. Their stories had started on their screens. I pictured the jokes they’d embarrass their kids with someday: ”When y...
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I Texted My Ex During a Global Pandemic
Two years of silence; then 23 Days into a global pandemic, I Reached out.
I made it 23 days into a global pandemic before I texted my ex-boyfriend.
Disclaimer: I gave him most of my 20’s. He left me with two tattered Duke sweatshirts and the greatest heartbreak of my romantic career. We shared nine years, two pre-war apartments, one cat, and a mutual understanding that there was nothing left to say. For two years. ...
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Q+A with Our Founder, Jennifer Simchowitz
Fueled by milky tea, texts that make her laugh, an unquenchable thirst for world travel and all things tech - sit down with Simchowitz.
As a female-founded company, we’re particularly passionate about this month’s upcoming International Women’s Day, celebrating the incredible social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women worldwide. In recognizing the work of brilliant and brave women everywhere, we’re thrilled to bring our very own fearless female founder, Jenni...
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Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day & the Love Story I Had No Idea My Parents’ Texts Told
I was a self-admitted Valentine’s Day hater but one Keepster book, thousands of my parents’ texts & an afternoon spent helping my Dad bring their love story to life changed all that.
Helping my Dad make a Valentine’s Day Keepster book made me realize two things:
I want the kind of love my parents share and I should still celebrate all the love I have in my life, even if I’m the most single I’ve ever been since the 6th grade.
I sat beside my Dad as he selected the messages, customized the dedication page, and dropped i...
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Some of the Best Advice I've Ever Gotten Has Come Via Text
Thank you, iPhone (and Mom and Dad)
Picture this...
I’m having dinner with a group of friends. One of the guys gets a text from his Mom, and says “Hang on, I gotta tell her I figured it out, one second…” We all nod in understanding. When he’s done, he puts down his phone and his girlfriend laughs, patting his arm as she says “I swear, I used to pray my parents wouldn’t text me...
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An iPhone romance that broke my heart … Sorta
I had an entire (three month) “relationship” via text message, and it mattered. Way more than I ever thought it could. Then, he ghosted me.
Yup. You read that right. I know, I know, I can hear it all: But you didn’t even really know him!
Three months?! That’s nothing! How do you catch feelings for someone over an iPhone?! I know what you’re thinking because I thought it, my friends thought it - some even had the guts to say it.
We’ve all heard those stories of people who mee...
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I Turned my Favorite Group Chat into a Book
I have the world’s greatest best friends, and couldn’t imagine life without them...so I showed them what they meant to me, with a Keepster book.
I had always planned to move away from home. In fact, for a long time I didn’t consider Winnipeg my home - rather a place where I’d grow up but would move away from the moment I got the chance.
My attitude stayed the same until I had to start saying my goodbyes as I prepared to move to another country to pursue my lifelong dream. Goodbyes se...
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I Still Text my Godmother. She passed away 8 Months Ago.
Texting Her Brought Me Joy When She Was Alive & Peace Now That She’s Not.
I have a secret. I guess it’s not really a secret if I’m writing a blog about it and putting it out there on the internet, but, nonetheless, it’s nothing something I’m shouting from the rooftops.
I text a dead person.
Wow. That’s a sentence, huh?
Trust me, it was as painful to type as I’m sure it is as uncomfortable for you to read. I t...
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How Downloading Keepster Changed the Way I Text
Downloading a desktop app designed to organize and safekeep my texts changed the way I use my mobile device, look at my messages, and manage my threads.
Texting & I have a serious love affair
As a writer and big-time talker, I’m one of those that lived for a good note passed during class, a particularly exciting AIM conversation, a text from some boy or friend that made me flutter.
Not shocking to report that I text full paragraphs. My friends joke that I follow zero ‘texting etiquett...
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A Generation Without Love Letters
I don’t have any other handwritten relics from past romances, I’ve exchanged thousands, if not millions, of text messages with boys. So glad I have Keepster.
I’m twenty-five and I’ve only received one love letter...
Pathetic, I know, but it was a good one. In it, I was compared to light, and to ‘the concept of music’ and time. I’m not sure what the guy meant, but I’ve never forgotten the line, so I guess it served its purpose. There’s even an accompanying poem. The letter lives in a box in my room...
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My Mom's Messages Matter Most
Since my Mom’s words are words I never, ever want to forget ... I made them into a Keepster Book!
My Mom is my best friend.
I know, that sounds like a cliche just in time for Mother’s Day but really, ask me any other day of the year, and I’ll tell you the same thing. She jokingly has always said “I can’t be your best friend, I gotta be your Mom!” but in all reality, she’s perfected both. She is single-handedly everything I ever want to b...
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Q + A with Keepster Recipient
I Gave My BFF a Keepster Book (And Here’s What She Said About it)
Hi, it’s me again, Olivia. This time I’m back and no, it’s not with a gift guide for your husband who has everything. It’s a quick Q + A with my best friend Jenny - the very first person I gave a Keepster book to! She doesn’t exactly share my ‘sentimental millennial’ title so I wasn’t sure just how much she’d adore the personalized gift. I knew ...
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