# Ember > A private shared album on a calendar. Plans, photos, and the stories you keep with the people on your mantel. This site is the public pages: how Ember works, help, privacy, and terms. The app at https://app.embering.us is signed-in. Memories there are not public. [Start your mantel](https://app.embering.us/signup) ## Pages - [Home](https://www.embering.us/index.md): What Ember is, who a mantel is for, and how a plan becomes an ember. - [How Ember works](https://www.embering.us/features.md): The whole explanation on one page. Everything below is depth. - [Help](https://www.embering.us/help.md): Where to write. - [Privacy](https://www.embering.us/privacy.md): What Ember stores, who can see it, export, and deletion. - [Terms](https://www.embering.us/terms.md): The terms for using the app. ## A day One Friday, from the plan before it to the day you keep. - [Plans and memories on one calendar](https://www.embering.us/features/the-calendar.md): Dinner on Friday and the night you kept sit on the same calendar. - [Fade](https://www.embering.us/features/the-calendar.md#fade): Ends a plan that never happened, without removing the day. - [Search](https://www.embering.us/features/the-calendar.md#search): Reads the writing on a day, including voice transcripts. - [Filters](https://www.embering.us/features/the-calendar.md#filters): By state, hearth, media, or what is waiting on you. - [Timeline view](https://www.embering.us/features/the-calendar.md#timeline): The same days as a grid or as a running list. - [What a memory holds](https://www.embering.us/features/capturing.md): A memory can be one picture, and it can stay one picture. - [The story](https://www.embering.us/features/capturing.md#story): What happened, written whenever you get to it. One level of replies. - [Asides](https://www.embering.us/features/capturing.md#asides): The line that does not belong in the story, kept anyway. - [Voice notes](https://www.embering.us/features/capturing.md#voice-notes): Recorded on the day, transcribed, and searchable. - [Tags](https://www.embering.us/features/capturing.md#tags): Your own words on a day. - [One per day](https://www.embering.us/features/capturing.md#split-days): Photos from different days as one memory, or one each. - [Copy memory](https://www.embering.us/features/capturing.md#copy-memory): A new day from one you already set up. - [Who sees what](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md): You choose who sees a note, and when they see it. - [Private notes](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md#private): A note only you can see, optionally set to open later. - [Guests](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md#guests): Can look, cannot add, and never take a seat. - [Double Take](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md#double-take): One question about a day, answered separately, opened together. - [Hidden from guests](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md#hidden-from-guests): Visible to members, invisible to guests. - [Invite](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md#invites): A member link and a guest link, both removable before use. - [Updates](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md#updates): What changed on the mantel since you last looked. - [Your color](https://www.embering.us/features/who-sees-what.md#your-color): The colored dot beside your name on what you added. ## More days Once a mantel has a stretch of days, there are other ways in than the calendar. - [Where it happened](https://www.embering.us/features/places.md): Your memories on a map, and the places you keep going back to. - [Label](https://www.embering.us/features/places.md#labels): Your own name for a place, on this memory only. - [Your places](https://www.embering.us/features/places.md#your-places): The places you name once and pick again. - [Days that belong together](https://www.embering.us/features/hearths.md): A named run of days, each still its own memory. - [Link memories](https://www.embering.us/features/hearths.md#link-memories): Days go into a hearth by hand, and come back out the same way. - [Find it again](https://www.embering.us/features/resurfacing.md): Looks through kept days, starting with this date in other years. - [Wander Path](https://www.embering.us/features/resurfacing.md#wander-path): This date in other years first, then wider, then further back. - [On this day](https://www.embering.us/features/resurfacing.md#highlights): On this day, Around this date, then More to wander. - [A screen in the room](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md): A spare screen showing your own photos, and a card you can send. - [Postcards](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md#postcards): One memory or a whole hearth, laid out as a card. - [The song on a day](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md#song): One track attached to a memory, and to its postcard. - [Sensitive](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md#sensitive): A photo or a line that stays covered until it is asked for. - [Pair](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md#pair): A six digit code on the screen, typed into your phone. - [Cast](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md#cast): Cast from your phone instead of pairing a code. - [What it plays](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md#frame-sources): Favorites, a hearth, a stretch of dates, or everything kept. - [Keep off the frame](https://www.embering.us/features/frame-and-postcards.md#frame-holdback): One photo or one memory, left off Frame. ## Take them with you Who holds an invite, what an export is made of, and the 30 days after a douse. - [Yours to take](https://www.embering.us/features/your-memories.md): Your original files, as many times as you like. - [Douse](https://www.embering.us/features/your-memories.md#douse): Removes a memory, with 30 days to change your mind. - [Leaving a mantel](https://www.embering.us/features/your-memories.md#leave): What happens to a shared history when one person goes. - [New mantel](https://www.embering.us/features/your-memories.md#multiple-mantels): One account can be on several, and they never mix. - [Passkey](https://www.embering.us/features/your-memories.md#passkeys): Face or fingerprint on the device, instead of an emailed code. ## Optional - [Changes](https://www.embering.us/changes.md): What's new, most recent first.