A Mother's Day card she can keep on her phone
Kindnotes is a Mother's Day card you send as one link: a locket that opens to a photograph and a folded note, or a sealed envelope with a letter inside. She opens it on her phone, no app and no account, and she can keep it on her Home Screen.
Mothers keep things. Cards in a drawer, the recipe on the back of an envelope, the note you wrote at nine. A Kindnotes card is made to be kept: the link lasts, the card saves as an image, and the note is in a hand that looks like someone sat down to write it.
If you are far away this year, this is the card that arrives on time. If you are across the table, it is the one she reads again on Tuesday.
The design for it
The locket: her photograph behind glass, your initials and a date engraved inside the lid, a letter folded twice that opens when she taps. About the locket.
How it works
1. Pick the design
The envelope, the polaroid or the locket. Each one is drawn and animated by hand.
2. Write the note
It sets itself in a handwriting hand and fits the paper. A photo and a voice note if you like.
3. Send one link
It opens on any phone, no app and no account. You keep an edit link; changes go live on theirs.
What to write
Start with one specific thing. Four ways in:
- You taught me to keep the good things close, so
- Every time I get something right, I hear your voice first.
- I don't say it enough, so I'm writing it down:
- Things you did that I didn't understand until now:
Questions
- Is it hard for her to open?
- She taps a link and scrolls. That is the whole instruction. It works on any phone.
- Can I put a photo of us in it?
- Yes. The locket and the polaroid take a photo from your phone.
- Can my siblings add to it?
- Not yet; one card, one writer. Send her one each: she will not mind.
Other occasions
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