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Lasting Memories, a Second at a Time

How 1 Second Everyday captures memories—and helps create them.

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“I’ve had this lifelong frustration with my memory that was giving me a bit of anxiety,” says Cesar Kuriyama, founder of 1 Second Everyday.

For the past seven years, Kuriyama has been creating a uniquely detailed and evocative montage of his life—one that consists of a single second of video that he’s recorded each and every day.

Your second-long clips make remembering your life much easier.

“When I started, I was about to turn 30, and my life at 20 was already a bit of a blur,” he says. “I didn’t want to turn 40 one day and only kind of remember this year.”

After delivering a 2012 TED Talk about how this endeavor changed his life (and receiving shoutouts from the likes of Al Gore and Bill Gates), Kuriyama spent years turning his passion project into an app. 1 Second Everyday makes it easy for others to do what Kuriyama has done. Using the app, you can snip a second from the videos and Live Photos you’ve taken with your iPhone or iPad. 1 Second Everyday catalogs the clips on the day they were taken and assembles them into a montage.

1 Second Everyday founder Cesar Kuriyama started the project to make his life more memorable.

The project is about more than simply sparking memories, Kuriyama explains. It also encourages you “to make every day notable in some way.” There were times, says Kuriyama, when the need to record a video was what motivated him to get out of the house.

“There are very small things you can do to make a day that might be uneventful stand out,” he says.

You can clip a second out of your longer videos.

Kuriyama found that 1 Second Everyday can have a profound effect on your outlook too.

“Over the past five years, there have been a lot of downs and a lot of bad things that have happened with family and friends,” Kuriyama says.

But seeing in his videos how he made it through these hard times gave him a better perspective. “That’s one of the things I’m most grateful about with this project.”

Notes let you add further context to your clips and build broader memories.

Ultimately, the power of 1 Second Everyday is its personal nature. “These memories aren’t for Facebook. They aren’t for Instagram,” Kuriyama says. “These are the moments that only you know the true meaning behind—your video’s secret codes.”

Now the only question is what new experiences 1 Second Everyday will encourage you to have—and what secret codes you’ll discover in your videos this year.