The twelve chapters
Your life isn't a flat list of anecdotes — it's twelve chapters. Childhood, adolescence, first love, adult life, losses, kids. You have a map, not a feed.
The problem
If you sit down to write your life without structure, you end up with a bag of disconnected anecdotes. Was this before or after my brother was born? What period did I live in that house? Without a skeleton, memories float.
The twelve chapters
Anecdotario divides your life into twelve chapters — not by strict age, but by recognizable stages:
- Before me — your parents, your grandparents, what they told you
- Early childhood (0-6) — what you remember from when you were little
- Primary school (6-12) — friends, teachers, fears
- Adolescence (12-18) — first love, rebellion, intense friendships
- Leaving home — university, first job, moving out alone
- Finding myself — your twenties, decisions, formative mistakes
- Partner — the person you built something with, or the ones that didn't work
- Children — if you have them, or the decision not to
- Adult life — the routine you built, the house, the steady job
- Losses — people who are gone, hard moments
- What made me me — hobbies, trips, obsessions
- What's coming — what you still want, the open dreams
How it's used
Each anecdote you write gets assigned to a chapter (you choose, or the AI suggests). On your dashboard you see a tree with the twelve — which have more material, which are empty, which would be good to start.
You don't have to fill them in order. Start where it calls to you.
Why it matters
When you come back to write after a bad week, you don't face a blank page — you face a map with gaps. "I haven't written anything about my adolescence in three months. Today I can add the anecdote of the geography test that changed my life." The structure gives you doors to walk through.
And when you turn the corpus into a book, the chapters are already there — the book almost writes itself.