Erabox guides

Messages for the future.
Ideas and words for the people you love.

A letter for your son’s 18th birthday, the instructions your family will need, your grandparents’ story, a diary to open in ten years. In these guides you’ll find tips, examples and questions to help you write the right words, and have them arrive at the moment that matters.

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21 guidesLetters, instructions, memories and diaries
In short

What is a message for the future?

A message for the future is a letter, a voice recording, a video, a set of instructions, a family archive or a diary, prepared today and delivered to someone you love at a chosen moment: a birthday, a milestone, the day it’s needed.

It’s a way to say the important things without rushing, when you feel them, and let them arrive when they matter most. The guides below help you find the words and put what matters in order, one step at a time.

The guides

All the guides

Letters, instructions, family archives and diaries: choose where to begin.

Letters and memories

Words for the people you love to find, on the right day.

To your children

Words for your children to find as they grow up.

Letter to my sonThe words you’d like him to find as he grows up.Read the guide Letter to my daughterWhat I’d like her to know, on the day she needs it.Read the guide What to pass on to your childrenWhat can’t be bought, and stays.Read the guide

For parents and grandparents

The thank-you that’s never said often enough, and the stories worth passing on.

Letter to my motherAll the thank-yous you never say to her.Read the guide Letter to my dadThe words you don’t need to say to each other, but that do you good.Read the guide Letter to my grandchildrenGrandparents’ stories, to keep close.Read the guide

For life’s big milestones

The right words for the days that change a life.

Graduation letterThe right words for graduation day.Read the guide Letter to my daughter on her wedding dayThe words to give her before she says ‘I do’.Read the guide Letter for their 18th birthdayThe words to find for the day they become an adult.Read the guide

Memories to open tomorrow

A piece of today, kept safe for the future.

Time capsuleWhat it is, what to put in it and how to make one.Read the guide Wedding time capsuleYour big day, to open again in ten years.Read the guide
Where to begin

Where would you like to begin?

Choose a person or a theme and start there. Each guide walks you through it step by step.

My sonMy daughterMumDadMy grandchildrenFor a graduationFor a weddingFor me, in a few yearsInstructions for your familyLiving willFamily treeA diary
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Choose who it’s for.One person, one moment.
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Write at your own pace.Tips, opening lines and examples help you get started.
3
Choose when it will arrive.A date, a birthday, a milestone.
Frequently asked questions

Messages for the future: frequently asked questions

Can’t find your answer? Write to us via Help.

A letter, a voice recording, a video or a collection of memories written today and delivered to someone you love on a date you choose: a birthday, a milestone, a special day.
Start from a specific memory, describe who you are today and close with a wish for that day. In the guides you’ll find opening lines and examples for every person and occasion.
With Erabox you write or record your message, then choose who will receive it and the day it will be delivered. The person who receives it gets a personal, secure link, with no need to sign up.
No. As well as letters, you’ll find guides on instructions for your family, digital accounts, living wills and powers of attorney, family history, old photos and journals.
Even many years ahead. You can choose a specific date or a life event, such as a graduation or a wedding, even if you don’t know the date yet.
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The right words wait for the right moment.
You can choose it.

Write your first message for the future today.

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