In your search for ways to preserve your family’s most important stories, you’ve likely come across newcomer Remento. Like Storyworth, you’ll collect stories as answers to weekly prompts and publish them, along with photos, in a hardcover book. Remento has a list of curated questions you can choose from, or you can write your own. Though their selection of questions is smaller and less personalized than Storyworth’s, they can still serve as excellent jumping-off points for collecting family stories.

Below is a complete guide to Remento’s weekly questions, including prompt examples, ways to answer, and alternatives. 

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Remento sample questions

Remento’s prompt library is split into 15 categories: childhood, parents, early education, teenage years, career, romance, parenthood, COVID, celebrations, faith, historical events, grandchildren, veterans, family tree and heritage, and travel. Below are examples from each category.

Childhood

What is your earliest childhood memory

What's a good feeling you associate with your family

What kinds of toys did you play with as a child?

What childhood birthday do you remember fondly, and what made it special?

Parents

How are you different from your parents?

What were your mom's signature expressions? Your dads?

Can you remember ever seeing your parents cry and if so, what was the context?

What's your earliest memory of your mother? Your father?

Early education

What did you eat for lunch at school as a child

How would your elementary school classmates remember you?

What was the most difficult subject for you in school?

How did you get to elementary school as a child?

Teenage years

How did you celebrate your high school graduation?

What's the biggest mistake you've made

What was your favorite class in high school? Your least favorite?

What do you remember about your first time driving

Career

What's a major milestone in your career

Talk about your biggest career failure and what you learned from it

Talk about a moment you made a major change in your career

What's been the hardest lesson for you to learn in your career

Romance

How have your views on love and marriage changed as you've gotten older?

What are the most important lessons you've learned about love?

Have you ever had your heart broken?

What was the best thing about your wedding day?

‍Parenthood

How has your child surprised you recently? What about the way they acted was so surprising?

What's a funny story you have about being a parent?

Are there any recent traditions you've started with your adult children?

How did you feel when your oldest child moved out?

COVID

How did the lockdown affect you?

What was your greatest struggle during the COVID pandemic?

Talk about where you spent the majority of the pandemic and who you were with.

When did you first hear about COVID-19?

Celebrations

Do you have any cherished sports memorabilia or keepsakes? What's the story behind them?

What's the biggest family get-together you can remember from your childhood

Who was in your wedding party, and how did you choose them?

What traditions around the holidays have most changed over time? Are you happy with the change?

Faith

Talk about a time your faith was challenged

Talk about a person you've lost that meant a lot to you.

Describe moments where you shared your hope and faith with your loved one.

Talk about your most profound spiritual experience.

Historical events

Where were you when MLK was assassinated?

Where were you when Pearl Harbor was bombed?

Where were you when JFK was assassinated

Where were you when humans walked on the moon?

Where were you on 9/11

Grandchildren

When did one of your grandchildren completely surprise you as a baby or toddler?

Are there any family heirlooms or keepsakes you've passed down or plan to pass down to your grandchildren?

How is being a grandparent different now compared to when you were a child?

Which of your grandchildren reminds you most of their parent at the same age? How so?

Veterans

During your service, what was the hardest job you did?

During your service, did you receive any promotions? Could you tell me about them?

What was your first assignment after basic training?

During your service, what type of unit were you in?

Family tree and heritage

What's the story behind your family's last name?

Do you have a favorite aunt or uncle from growing up? What made them special to you?

Which of your grandparents would you say you're the most like?

What is a place that's particularly significant to your family history?

Travel

What's the first place you visited that felt completely different from home?

Share the story of your first international trip. What cultural differences did you notice?

What was your first time in an airplane like? What surprised you about flying?

Have you ever gotten lost while traveling? How did you handle it?

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FAQ Remento’s questions

How Remento works

Remento storytellers or their family members can choose questions from their prompt library, write their own questions, or use photos to inspire stories.

Each week, storytellers receive a prompt via either email, SMS text message, or both. They can then share their stories over video with any internet-connected device. Their spoken story is then converted to a written story and added to their account. 

Remento offers AI tools to alter the length, content, tone, and point of view of the story after it’s added to the storyteller’s book. One photo can be added to the top of each story, and while you can’t intersperse photos within your story, you can add a group of pictures at the end of each chapter.

Who is Remento good for?

Because Remento doesn’t require storytellers to write their stories, it can be a good choice for older relatives who have mobility issues, visual impairments. As long as they can open an email or text message on an internet-connected device and speak into the camera, they can share their stories. Family members can help by adding photos, editing and rearranging stories, and performing other administrative tasks within Remento’s platform.

Remento is also a good fit for those who want to share their story but don’t want to spend too much time writing and reflecting on their life. Storytellers can quickly share a response to a photo or a question prompt on any internet-connected device. Then a family member can use Remento’s AI tools to adjust the length, tone, or perspective of their story.

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Read Remento FAQ - 10 things to know before you buy

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Where do Rememto’s questions fall short?

Remento’s prompt library has fewer than 200 questions, which means it may be hard to find enough relevant questions to choose from if you want to include one story a week in your loved one’s memoir. You are able to write your own questions, but you won’t be given any help generating them.

Storyworth’s prompt library has more than twice the number of questions and is easily searchable by keyword or category. You can also rewrite existing questions to feel more relevant or write your own from scratch. 

If you want to ask questions that are unique to your storyteller’s life, you can use our Personalized Questions tool. Add a few meaningful details about their life, like where they grew up, any hobbies they have, their children’s names and ages, or anything else.

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We’ll use that information to create a list of custom questions specifically tailored to your storyteller. You can add them to the queue, edit them, or choose not to use them — it’s up to you.

Learn more about Storyworth’s Questions

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How does Storyworth compare to Remento? Read the reviews.

Both Storyworth and Remento were founded with the goal of helping families preserve their most meaningful stories. However, with over a million books published since 2013, there’s a reason that Storyworth has been the most trusted name in family storytelling for over a decade.

You can see that trust reflected in the 60,000 reviews on Trustpilot where Storyworth has a 4.7 star rating. Storytellers say they love the structure Storyworth provides through weekly prompts, and say that the questions themselves often spark long-forgotten memories. The process of spending time reflecting on their lives and writing their stories helps storytellers understand and appreciate their lives more fully. They also feel an immense sense of pride and accomplishment in writing a book that will leave a lasting legacy for their children and grandchildren.

Family members report feeling closer to the storyteller after reading stories they may never have heard without the prompts. They also love having a record of their loved ones' stories to pass down to future generations.

Remento has just a few hundred reviews on Trustpilot, likely due to being a relatively new company, although it has a similarly positive average rating. Like Storyworth, Remento users also enjoy the ability to preserve family stories in a keepsake book and feel closer to loved ones by learning more about them. They also say that the speech-to-text format works great for those with lower tech facility, motor, or visual issues. Family members like the ability to listen to the storyteller share stories via the QR codes printed in their books. However, some worry that the QR codes may cease to function if the company goes out of business.

Others dislike the way the AI rewrites the content of their stories, saying the written versions don’t feel like they’re in their loved ones' real voices. They frequently mention a desire for phone support, like Storyworth’s, to navigate the process.

Learn more about the differences between Storyworth and Remento

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