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LifeCreator
Create From Life.
Overview
LifeCreator is an AI-powered personal memory and creative platform designed to transform everyday experiences into lasting memories and creative works. Users can capture moments through voice, text, photographs, video, and other media, organize them chronologically, and transform them into images, photo collections, videos, stories, compilations, and keepsakes.
LifeCreator treats the user’s memory archive as the permanent source while treating generated media as representations and creative derivatives of that archive. Every memory, generated work, edit, compilation, and derivative can maintain its relationship to the original source, allowing users to preserve context, chronology, provenance, and creative history while retaining control over how their life is represented.
Core Principles
- Modular architecture
- User-controlled memory and creative workflows
- Preservation of original source material
- Traceable relationships between memories and generated works
- User control over AI-generated representations
- Independent creation from generated media
- Chronological organization of personal memories
- Support for multiple media types
- Editable and reusable creative assets
- Platform-specific publishing preparation
- Long-term archival preservation
- Extensible functionality through optional modules
- Open source licensing and attribution
Core Modules
Capture Module
The Capture Module provides the primary means of recording experiences and memories.
Features include:
- Voice input
- Text input
- Photograph input
- Video input
- Audio input
- Multiple inputs within a single memory
- Automatic date and time association
- User-entered dates and times
- Location information when available and authorized
- Descriptions and contextual information
- Attachments and supporting media
- Draft memories
- Private memories
- Memory editing
- Memory deletion and archival controls
Memory Module
The Memory Module organizes captured experiences into a persistent personal memory system.
The memory hierarchy should support:
- Moment
- Scene
- Day
- Week
- Month
- Year
- Multi-year period
- Life archive
The module should allow individual memories to belong to multiple contextual collections without requiring duplicate source material.
Special Notes Module
The Special Notes Module allows users to identify information that requires special attention or should remain associated with a memory.
Features include:
- Personal notes
- Important events
- Milestones
- People
- Places
- Anniversaries
- Personal observations
- Instructions for future generations
- Always include designations
- Do not include designations
- User-defined importance levels
Special notes should remain distinct from AI-generated interpretations.
Multimodal Interpretation Module
The Multimodal Interpretation Module analyzes captured material to identify useful context while maintaining a distinction between source material and AI interpretation.
Features include:
- Speech transcription
- Image analysis
- Video analysis
- Text interpretation
- Scene identification
- Event identification
- People and object recognition when enabled
- Context extraction
- Date and time interpretation
- Topic identification
- Memory relationship detection
- Searchable metadata generation
AI-generated interpretations should be identifiable as interpretations and must not silently become part of the user’s factual source record.
Daily Output Module
The Daily Output Module allows users to determine how each day is represented.
Users may independently choose:
- Single image
- Photo collection
- Video
- Multiple daily formats
- No daily output
- User-created custom output
Daily outputs should be generated from the memories and source materials associated with that day.
Users should be able to regenerate, edit, replace, or create additional daily representations without modifying the underlying memories.
Memory Reconstruction Module
The Memory Reconstruction Module creates representations of memories using available source material.
The module should support:
- Documentary reconstruction
- Interpretive reconstruction
- Creative reconstruction
- Scene generation
- Image generation
- Video generation
- Narrative generation
- Audio representation
- User-selected generation parameters
Generated content must remain distinguishable from original source material.
Creative Generation Module
The Creative Generation Module allows users to transform memories into original works.
Users should be able to create:
- Images
- Illustrations
- Artwork
- Short videos
- Long-form videos
- Animated scenes
- Stories
- Narratives
- Visual sequences
- Other supported creative works
Generated works should be treated as independent assets that retain a relationship to their source memories.
Independent Creation Module
The Independent Creation Module allows any generated image, video, scene, or other creative work to become the starting point for additional creations.
Users should be able to:
- Create new artwork from generated images
- Create new videos from generated images
- Create images from generated videos
- Create videos from generated videos
- Expand individual scenes
- Create alternate interpretations
- Combine multiple generated works
- Create entirely new works from archived material
New creations must not overwrite their source assets.
Style Module
The Style Module provides independent control over the artistic representation of memories and generated works.
Style selection may be applied to:
- Individual images
- Individual scenes
- Videos
- Daily outputs
- Monthly compilations
- Yearly compilations
- Entire collections
- Individual creative derivatives
Changing a style should create a new representation while preserving the original.
Scene and Media Editing Module
The Scene and Media Editing Module provides user control over generated and captured media.
Features include:
- Scene editing
- Image editing
- Video editing
- Cropping
- Composition changes
- Object modification
- Background modification
- Scene expansion
- Scene removal
- Text overlays
- Captions
- Audio changes
- Narration changes
- Transition editing
- Sequence editing
- Style changes
Edits should preserve the relationship between the edited work and its source.
Highlight and Importance Module
The Highlight and Importance Module allows users to determine which memories deserve greater representation.
Features include:
- Importance ratings
- Highlight designation
- Favorite designation
- Always include
- Never include
- Personal significance
- Event significance
- User-defined categories
- AI-suggested highlights subject to user control
AI suggestions must not override explicit user preferences.
Compilation Module
The Compilation Module combines memories and creative works into larger representations.
Supported compilation levels include:
- Daily replay
- Weekly collection
- Monthly highlights
- Yearly compilation
- Multi-year compilation
- Life compilation
Users should be able to determine which memories, periods, people, events, styles, and media types are included.
Daily Replay Module
The Daily Replay Module creates an interactive or linear representation of a selected day.
Features may include:
- Chronological playback
- Original media
- Generated media
- Voice recordings
- Written entries
- Special notes
- Scene transitions
- Captions
- Narration
- User-selected music
- Alternate visual representations
Monthly Highlight Module
The Monthly Highlight Module creates a representation of a selected month based on user preferences and importance settings.
Users should be able to choose:
- Images
- Photo collections
- Video
- Stories
- Mixed-media presentations
- Multiple versions
- Artistic styles
- Duration
- Included memories
Annual Compilation Module
The Annual Compilation Module creates comprehensive representations of a selected year.
Features include:
- Year-in-review videos
- Image collections
- Highlight reels
- Chronological presentations
- Thematic collections
- Major events
- Milestones
- User-selected memories
- Multiple artistic versions
Provenance Module
The Provenance Module maintains the relationship between original memories and generated works.
A provenance chain may include:
- Original voice recording
- Original photograph
- Original video
- Original text
- Memory record
- AI interpretation
- Generated image
- Generated video
- User edit
- Creative derivative
- Compilation
- Social media version
The system should preserve source relationships without requiring users to expose private metadata when sharing a finished work.
Timestamp and Metadata Module
The Timestamp and Metadata Module maintains chronological and contextual information.
Features include:
- Date
- Time
- Time zone
- Location when available and authorized
- Source timestamp
- User-adjusted timestamp
- Creation timestamp
- Modification timestamp
- Generation timestamp
- Publication timestamp
- Custom metadata
Social Publishing Module
The Social Publishing Module prepares creative works for publication across supported social media platforms.
The module should maintain platform requirement profiles that can be updated independently of the core system.
Platform profiles may define:
- Aspect ratio
- Resolution
- Dimensions
- Maximum duration
- Minimum duration
- File size
- File format
- Image requirements
- Video requirements
- Audio requirements
- Caption requirements
- Title requirements
- Thumbnail requirements
- Subtitle requirements
- Safe areas
- Other publishing requirements
The system should generate platform-specific versions from a master creative work rather than modifying the master.
Archive Module
The Archive Module provides long-term preservation of the user’s memory and creative history.
The archive should preserve:
- Original memories
- Original media
- Generated media
- Edited media
- Creative derivatives
- Daily outputs
- Monthly compilations
- Annual compilations
- Notes
- Metadata
- Timestamps
- Provenance
- Generation history
- User modifications
- Style information
- Publishing versions
Original source material should remain recoverable independently from generated representations.
Export Module
The Export Module allows users to create portable copies of their memories and creative works.
Supported exports may include:
- Individual memories
- Complete days
- Monthly collections
- Yearly collections
- Creative works
- Videos
- Images
- Stories
- Compilations
- Metadata
- Provenance information
- Complete archives
Exported materials should remain usable independently of the LifeCreator system whenever practical.
Optional Plugin Modules
LifeCreator may support optional plugin modules that extend functionality without making those capabilities mandatory for the core system.
Image Generation Plugin
Provides AI image generation capabilities for memories, scenes, creative derivatives, and compilations.
Video Generation Plugin
Provides AI video generation, animation, scene expansion, and video transformation.
Voice Generation Plugin
Provides synthetic narration and other generated voice capabilities.
AI Narration Plugin
Creates narrated versions of memories, daily replays, compilations, and stories.
Music Generation Plugin
Creates or applies generated music to creative works and compilations.
Style Library Plugin
Provides additional artistic styles and user-created style collections.
Social Platform Plugin
Adds support for specific social media platforms and their publishing requirements.
Photo Book Plugin
Transforms memories and generated works into printable or digital photo books.
Digital Scrapbook Plugin
Creates interactive scrapbook-style collections from memories and creative works.
Physical Keepsake Plugin
Provides formats for physical products and other tangible memory objects.
Local AI Plugin
Allows compatible AI generation and interpretation systems to operate locally.
Cloud AI Provider Plugin
Allows users to connect compatible external AI generation services without making any provider part of the core system.
Family Sharing Plugin
Allows users to selectively share memories and collections with family members or other authorized people.
Collaborative Memories Plugin
Allows multiple authorized users to contribute to shared memories and collections.
Multiple Language Plugin
Provides multilingual transcription, translation, narration, and creative generation.
VR and 3D Memory Plugin
Provides immersive and three-dimensional representations of selected memories and scenes.
User Control
LifeCreator must prioritize user control over automated generation.
Users should be able to:
- Review AI interpretations
- Edit memories
- Reject AI-generated interpretations
- Regenerate creative works
- Select artistic styles
- Create independent derivatives
- Preserve original media
- Determine what is included in compilations
- Control special notes
- Control publishing versions
- Export their archive
- Delete selected content
- Delete complete collections
- Control sharing
- Control connected generation services
Source and Generated Content Separation
LifeCreator must distinguish between:
- User-provided source material
- User-written information
- AI interpretations
- AI-generated content
- User-edited content
- User-created derivative works
- Published versions
AI-generated material must not be presented as an original factual record unless the user explicitly chooses to treat it as such.
Creative Lineage
Every creative derivative should maintain a relationship to the work from which it was created.
A user should be able to trace a finished work back through its creative lineage to the underlying memory and, where available, the original source material.
The lineage system should support branching creative histories so that multiple works can be created from the same source without overwriting one another.
Privacy and Ownership
LifeCreator should provide users with control over their personal memory archive and the representations generated from it.
The system should support:
- Private memories
- Selective sharing
- User-controlled exports
- Source preservation
- Deletion controls
- Generation history
- Provenance controls
- Provider selection where supported
- Local processing where supported
Core Philosophy
LifeCreator is built around the principle that the memory is the permanent object and generated media are representations of the memory.
A single experience may produce many images, videos, stories, artistic interpretations, compilations, and social versions without requiring the original experience to be duplicated or altered.
LifeCreator transforms the personal archive from a passive record into a creative source. Users can capture life as it happens, preserve it over time, revisit it through different representations, and continually create new works from the experiences that make up their lives.
Specification Branding License (SBL)
Standard
- Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
- Copyleft enforced for network deployments
- Required attribution:
- Roxanne Ardary
- https://www.roxanneardary.com/
Optional
- Specification Branding License (SBL)
- Attribution-free commercial deployment
- Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
- https://roxanneardary.com/lifecreator/
License & Notice Requirements
LifeCreator is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
By contributing to any Open Arsenal project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.
Please note the following:
- All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
- Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
- LifeCreator specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
- The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments. Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update
notice.md. - When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
- Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.
For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.
Notice – LifeCreator
Attribution Requirement: Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
Contributors
This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.
- Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – September 2, 2026
Created the repository for LifeCreator. Created the LifeCreator specification for an AI-powered personal memory and creative platform that transforms moments from life into images, videos, stories, compilations, and lasting keepsakes. - [Add other contributors here] – [Date]
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License – LifeCreator
This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
Key Points:
- You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
- All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
- The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.
For the full license text, see GNU AGPL-3.0 License.