Your journal. Your voice.Fully encrypted.

A vault holds your documents. A journal holds you. The difference is what your family will be left with: a folder of policies and account numbers, or a record of who you actually were.

The most asked-for digital legacy is not a will, it is the things people wish they could still hear: a parent reading a bedtime story, a grandmother explaining her recipes, a mentor giving the advice they never got to finish. Voice and video, attached to dates, preserved in the same zero-knowledge envelope as the rest of your vault.

Critics of legacy platforms call them "storage-first, not human-first." That is a fair critique of any product that gives you a folder and walks away. Henedo's answer is a journal that takes 60 seconds at a time and accumulates, over years, into something unrepeatable.

Concrete examples from how people actually use it:

• A 60-second voice note recorded the week your daughter is born, sealed as a capsule that opens on her 18th birthday.
• A 5-minute video walking through the family recipes, kept for every grandchild.
• A weekly 30-second voice note while cooking dinner, "today I learned, today we did, today I felt." Two years of these is 100 entries: 50 minutes of your own voice, kept.
• A bedtime-story recording you make once, played back every night you are travelling, and kept for the next generation.
• A business handoff video for your co-founder, saved to your vault and released to them the moment Trusted Delivery activates.

One thing to know about routing: the journal share that goes to your trusted contacts carries your written entries. Recordings reach people two ways today, as vault files granted to a contact, and as Capsules addressed to one person for one date. Both play natively in the browser when they land.

The product does not write the script for you. The product writes nothing for you, by design. It gives you a calendar, a record button, and encryption that makes every entry readable by exactly the people you name and by no one else, us included. When those entries are released is a rule you set, and change whenever you change your mind.

Critics also call legacy platforms "a file dump for descendants." Henedo's contact-access and Eternal Vault pages open with scope, then with you. A row of stats cards counts what is there (total size, files, photos, documents, videos, audio) so nobody has to guess. Directly under it sits your personal message, the introduction or the blessing you wrote for that one person, sealed inside their encrypted bundle and shown as text. Rewrite it whenever you like; the new words reach them the next time that bundle is re-sealed. Below that, tabs: Files always first and About always last, with Journal, Life Story, Will, Book of Life and Answers in between, each one appearing only if you shared it.

The Files tab is where your recordings are met. Its previewer plays audio and video natively in the browser, full quality, straight from the decrypted bytes, and everything is downloadable one file at a time or as a single archive. The Journal tab is a chronological reader for your written entries, in date order, expandable, and savable as a text file or as JSON so the words outlive the page they arrived on. The journal share carries your writing only; recordings travel as vault files and through Capsules, which is where the native player lives.

Voice notes, videos, photos, and text entries are encrypted client-side using AES-256-GCM under a per-entry File Encryption Key (FEK), wrapped with your Master Key (MK), which is derived from your passphrase plus your device-bound Account Secret Key (ASK) via Argon2id (64 MB). The server stores ciphertext and metadata it cannot read.

The server cannot transcribe a voice note, generate captions for a video, or thumbnail a photo. There is no analytics layer, no ML pipeline, no admin override. See the full architecture on the security page.

Telling your spouse to "remember to give the kids my videos when I'm gone" is wishful delivery. Henedo's mechanism is engineered:

• Your designated contacts hold their decryption keys from the day you assign them, emailed the day you name them.
• The platform refuses to serve ciphertext until Trusted Delivery activates (180 days inactivity + 5-week warning cascade).
• When the switch fires, server flips a single boolean. Their pre-delivered keys can now decrypt the journal bundles.
• Hosted delivery depends on the service operating. A complete downloaded journal bundle and its full key support independent decryption. An Eternal archive can include a journal export when you select it during sealing; current purchases use encrypted cloud storage.

We are the only platform that combines all four. Read the portability page for the decrypt-without-Henedo recipe.

The journal is open-ended on purpose. If you want a more guided format, the Life Story ships 1,000 curated prompts across ten dimensions of a life, answerable with text, voice, or video and encrypted under the same master key. Most people use the journal for what is happening now and the Life Story for everything before now. They share the same vault, the same trusted contacts, and the same release rules.

What we do not ship today: AI-suggested chapter summaries, daily-streak gamification, on-device transcription. Those remain on the public roadmap. We surface what we ship and label the rest as roadmap.