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title: "Photos and Voice Notes in a Memory Capsule: What Changes"
description: "Text remembers facts. A photo remembers a moment. A voice note remembers the person. A practical guide to adding media to a memory capsule, what to pick, and what to skip."
tags: ["memory", "personal", "grief"]
canonical_url: https://stillherememory.com/blog/import-photos-and-voice-into-capsule
Text remembers facts. A photo remembers a moment. A voice note remembers the person, the tone, the way a sentence ended. A memory capsule built on text alone stays flat. Add a photo and a voice note and it becomes something you can feel again.
What to import. Pick the photo that actually carries the person: the one where they are mid-laugh, not the posed one. One photo beats ten. For voice, a single sentence in their own words, or yours about them, carries more than a long recording.
What to skip. Blurry shots. Group photos where you cannot find them. Audio with a lot of background noise. Duplicates and low-quality files dilute what matters. Quality over quantity is the whole trick.
The import flow. Open the capsule, tap add, choose the photo from your gallery. For voice, hold to record or import an existing clip. Everything attaches to that one person, stored privately, visible only to you. The photo sits with the text, the voice note plays inline, and the capsule becomes a small room you can walk back into.
What changes. Text says what you remember. The photo shows it. The voice brings back the sound of them. Together they do what none of them can do alone: make a person present again for a moment. That is the entire point of a memory capsule, and photos and voice are the fastest way to get there.
