Organize with family spaces

Why family spaces matter

A gallery of individual creations is wonderful, but over time it becomes harder to find the gems. Spaces solve that by grouping related creations into named collections. "Birthday Cards" holds every card the child has ever made. "Science Experiments" keeps hypotheses, observations, and results together. "Grandma's Favorites" might be a special space curated just for one person.

A space gives related creations a familiar family name without changing the main gallery. Moving a creation into a space does not make a second copy or publish it anywhere.

How spaces work

A space has a family-chosen name and picture. It can hold single captures such as drawings and multi-part creations such as recipes or comics. A grown-up can create a space directly. A child can suggest a name and picture, then a grown-up decides whether it appears.

Who can see a space

Spaces stay inside the adult-managed family account. The first store release does not include recipient accounts, invitation links, public links, or space sharing with relatives.

Step by step

1. Create or suggest a space

Open the Spaces tab and choose a name such as "My Dinosaurs," "Recipes That Work," or "Cards for Grandma." A grown-up can create it directly. In a child session, the idea waits for a grown-up's yes before it appears.

Choosing a picture is optional. The picture helps the family recognize the space, and a grown-up can change it later.

2. Add creations to a space

Open an approved space and use Add creations to choose from the family gallery. If a creation is already in another space, moving it here removes it from the earlier space but keeps the creation safe in the gallery.

A creation remains a normal gallery item after it is organized. Removing it from a space also leaves the creation safely in the gallery.

3. Adjust the space

A grown-up can rename a space, choose a different picture, move another creation into it, or take a creation out. The space history keeps the family-facing record of proposals, approvals, names, and picture changes.

4. Delete a space without deleting its creations

Deleting a space removes the organizer only. Its creations remain safely in the family gallery, where a grown-up can leave them unassigned or move them into another space.

Suggested space ideas

Every family is different, but here are spaces that work well for many families:

• "Recipes"; every cooking creation, from simple smoothies to multi-step baking projects
• "Cards"; birthday cards, Christmas cards, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and thank-you notes
• "Masterpieces"; the child's proudest drawings and paintings, curated over time
• "Science"; experiments, observations, and discoveries with voice notes explaining the hypothesis
• "Stories"; comic books, handwritten stories, and illustrated tales
• "Building Projects"; block towers, Lego castles, and cardboard forts captured before they come apart
• "Cards for Grandma"; cards and drawings made with one person in mind

Private in the first store release

Family spaces are organization tools inside the private family account. They do not create a public page or send creations to anyone. Sharing and viewer accounts require a separate reviewed release and are not available in this version.

Spaces vs the gallery

The main gallery shows the complete archive. Spaces provide a thematic view. A creation remains in the gallery while it is assigned to one space, and moving it to another space does not delete it.

Think of the gallery as the complete archive and spaces as curated collections within it.