Eight steps, card to keepsake.
From the moment you start a Group Dial to the moment they pick it up.
- 01.
Choose a card. And a phone.
Four card designs to set the tone — the oxblood double-line, the hunter-green hand-drawn frame, the airmail stripe, the wax-sealed bone cream. Pair it with a phone: the rotary, the cherry pushbutton, or the antique brass. They arrive together.
- 02.
Set the length of each voice.
Thirty seconds for a wish. Forty-five for a story. A full minute for the long-winded uncle. Pick one limit; every contributor gets the same.
- 03.
Pick when it goes out.
Schedule the card for any date within thirty days of creating it — the birthday, the morning of the move, the anniversary. Whatever you pick is when the recipient gets the link. Until then, contributors can keep recording right up to the wire.
- 04.
Decide who is invited.
Up to twelve voices to start. The private link goes to whoever should be on the line — partners, parents, college roommates, the friend who lives three time zones away.
- 05.
Write the introduction. Or use ours.
Before any voice plays, a short greeting addresses the recipient and sets the scene. Record your own — your voice, telling them why they’re holding the card — or use the default we wrote.
- 06.
Each voice gets an extension.
Every contributor is assigned a three-digit number, written by hand into the card’s phonebook. They record once. The recipient dials that number to hear them.
- 07.
Listen all, or pick a number.
The recipient can dial the play-all extension and hear every voice in the order they arrived — a small pocket history. Or pick any extension to replay just one.
- 08.
Thirty days, or forever.
The line stays open for thirty days — long enough to share, replay, sit with. Before it closes, the recipient can download the whole set as a folder: voices, names, extensions. Keepsake, archived. No subscription. No expiry on the download.