Clozeu usage guides
Understand Clozeu by topic
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What Is Clozeu—and When Might It Help? — When Clozeu may help people gather shared memories, how it fits alongside familiar tools, and what participation involves.
Groups
Understand groups of equals, structured organisations, connected groups, governance, and intentional membership.
- Groups in Clozeu — Understand Standard and Structured Groups in Clozeu, and how each can reflect the way friends, clubs and organisations work together.
- Groups of Equals — Standard Groups give communities of peers a shared place in Clozeu, with responsibility shaped by the group's governance.
- When a Group Has Structure — See how Structured Groups can reflect the roles, chapters and levels of responsibility that already exist in an organisation.
- A Group of Groups — Explore how related groups can connect in Clozeu while keeping their own members, activities and identity.
- Who Decides in a Group? — Understand why decisions in Clozeu follow a group's structure, with shared responsibility or defined roles rather than permanent creator control.
- Joining and Leaving a Group by Choice — Learn how invitations, optional self-joining and voluntary withdrawal make participation in a Clozeu Group a deliberate choice.
Families
Explore direct families, generations, connected Family Spaces, Family Explorer, invitations, and shared decisions.
- Families in Clozeu — Understand how Clozeu Family Spaces represent parent-child relationships and connect family memories across generations.
- Your Direct Family — Explore the parent-child unit at the heart of a Clozeu Family Space and how it connects to a wider family structure.
- Families Across Generations — See how parent and child relationships connect generations in Clozeu without placing every relative in one large Family Space.
- A Family of Families — Understand how direct families connected through a common parent can remain distinct Family Spaces within a larger family structure.
- Exploring Your Family Connections — Explore how Family Explorer helps make sense of connected generations and Family Spaces beyond a flat list of relatives.
- Why Joining a Family Takes More Care — Understand why a Clozeu family relationship begins with a proposal and active acceptance, rather than one person simply adding another.
- Who Decides in a Family? — Explore shared responsibility in a Clozeu Family Space, including why consequential decisions need not rest with its original creator.
Events
Bring different contributions around an occasion together, then choose what deserves to be kept.
- What Is an Event in Clozeu? — An Event gathers contributions around a shared occasion, recent or long past, before people choose what they want to keep.
- Bringing Everyone's Memories Together — See how a Clozeu Event brings together photos, recollections and other material held by different people who shared an experience.
- An Event Can Be from Any Time — An old holiday or school gathering can become a Clozeu Event when people are ready to bring their scattered memories together.
- Why Events Are Temporary — Why Events gather contributions temporarily, and why choosing what to keep in Collections is a separate step.
- Choosing What Is Worth Keeping — Explore the choice between gathering everything in an Event and keeping selected, meaningful items in Collections.
Collections
Keep selected memories with their context, conversations, Corners, and supported synchronized copies.
- What Is a Collection in Clozeu? — A Collection holds deliberately selected memories in a Person, Family or Group Space. Learn how keeping differs from gathering in an Event.
- Keeping the Different Pieces of a Memory Together — Photos tell only part of a story. See how Collections keep videos, voice recordings and documents alongside the images that matter.
- Conversations Around What You Keep — Learn how conversations beside Collections and their items can preserve the names, recollections and context behind a memory.
- Organising Collections with Corners — Corners group related Collections within a Space, helping families, groups and individuals organise memories as their collections grow.
- Keeping Something Together — Explore what it means to keep a Collection within a Family or Group Space, as part of the shared history of that relationship.
- When the Same Collection Belongs in More Than One Space — Understand synchronised Collections: distinct copies in different Spaces, with supported content changes kept in step.
Conversations
Talk within the Space, Corner, Collection, or item where a conversation belongs, now or later.
- Conversations in Clozeu — Explore conversations within Clozeu Spaces, Collections and individual items, so discussion can stay with the context it concerns.
- Conversations for the Future — Delayed-reveal posts let a message become visible at a chosen future time. Explore how they differ from ordinary conversation and reminders.
Time Capsule
Prepare a Collection for one chosen recipient to receive at a meaningful future time.
- What Is a Time Capsule in Clozeu? — How a Time Capsule prepares a Collection for one future recipient, and how it differs from a delayed conversation post.
Connections and visibility
Keep relationships distinct and let access follow the context in which something is shared.
- How Clozeu Protects Shared Memories — Understand sharing permissions, service-managed encryption and the limits of protection when keeping memories in Clozeu.
- Connections and Visibility in Clozeu — How connections differ from content audiences, and what to consider when sharing across Family, Group and Person Spaces.
- Sharing with the Right People — Explore how visibility choices help keep sharing relevant to a family, group or selected people, depending on the content involved.
- Keeping Different Relationships Separate — Family, group and individual connections need not become one audience. Explore how Clozeu keeps different relationship contexts distinct.
Person Space
Understand the private, person-centred context for memories that begin with one individual.
- Your Person Space — Understand Person Space as the context for your own memories and activities, without assuming that everything there must stay private.
- From Personal to Shared — Explore how a memory kept personally can also become meaningful to a family or group, while each Space keeps its own context.