Previously

For tabletop RPG tables

Every session, remembered.

Your table plays. Tap the seal on the moments that matter, and before the next session Previously tells the story back, written and read aloud.

One night at the table, from the first tap to the recap read aloud.Music: “Enchanted Journey” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), edited. CC BY 4.0
Capture

Tap, then say what happened

Your phone records only after you tap

Try it. Nothing is recorded on this page; this is the seal as it is at the table. At the table you say one sentence about what just happened, and Previously keeps it.

Coming to the App Store

Previously is for iPhone. Every table keeps its three most recent recaps for free, forever. Previously Plus keeps the whole archive, and one payment by the game master unlocks it for everyone at the table.

How it works

  1. At the table

    Tap the seal and say what happened.

    A line worth keeping, a turn nobody saw coming, the name of the innkeeper. One tap starts a short clip, you say it in a few words, and it is kept. Or type it. If the game master is recording the whole night, a tap marks the moment instead.

  2. When the night ends

    The GM ends the session.

    Everything the table captured is written into one recap, told as a story, by the time you are home.

  3. Next time

    Previously on…

    Press play. Ninety seconds later everyone remembers where you were, and the game begins.

A recap, as it arrives

A sample recap · Session VII

The Causeway

Read aloud · thirty seconds

You rode out of Harrow at first light, the road east past the burned mill. Nobody comes back from the Fen, the ferryman said, and you paid him anyway.

The fight at the causeway was short and ugly. Brannoc went under the water with the thing that had him, and came up alone. Ysolde burned the reeds to get him out.

At the inn you counted what was left: three days of food, one lamp, and the map with the mark on it. Darrow put the lamp out himself.

A sample. Yours is written from the moments your table captured, and read aloud by a narrator who has been taught how to say your names.

Previously Plus

Free keeps the last three. Plus keeps them all.

One payment by the game master unlocks the whole archive for everyone at the table, and lets the whole session be recorded, so nothing depends on someone remembering to tap.