Meet the Keeper Page — and Set Up Six of Them in an Afternoon

Two weeks ago I wrote that upgrades were live. Since then the pages have grown up a lot, mostly because people started using them for things I hadn't planned: a host with a handful of rentals, a realtor handing over keys, a family putting a page on a memorial. This post is about two things. The first is a name. The second is a set of tools for anyone who has more than one page to look after.

A tag is a Link or a Keeper

Every CraftedLink tag starts with its free Crafted page: how to care for the piece, who made it, and where its story starts. From there it can become one of two things.

• A Link sends the tap to an address you choose, and you can change that address yourself, free, whenever you like. Once it is assigned, you'll only be able to see the Crafted page on your setup page or you can download it for safekeeping, too.
• A Keeper is a page I host for you, in three sizes. Snapshot is the small one: a cover photo, your words and a short list. Story is a much fuller keepsake page, with a gallery, voice recordings, a timeline and a guest book, enough for most uses. Together is everything a Story page is, with far more room. It also features multimedia guest books, and collaboration features that you may find very helpful for a large wedding or memorial page.

I needed one word for "the page we keep for you," and Keeper is the one that stuck. That's what the page does: it keeps the photos, the voices, and the words, and it keeps them for ten years in writing. You'll see the name on the home page, on how it works, and now in the terms too. While I had the terms open, I also brought the space figures in line with what the pages really hold, which is Story 15 MB and Together 100 MB. To give you an idea of the space that is: 15 MB is room for well over eighty photos, because the builder shrinks each one before it uploads. Over 500 will fit within 100 MB.

Set up several pages at once

This is the one I built for short term hosts and realtors. Say you have six rentals. They share the same house rules, the same checkout steps, the same list of favourite restaurants, and the same "who to call if the water heater quits." You shouldn't have to type any of that six times.

Now you don't. Sign in, open your account page, and use Set up several pages at once. Pick the page you've already finished, tick the pages you want to fill, choose which parts to copy, and press the button. It can copy the words and the look, the page type and its order, the Wi-Fi, the check-in steps, the house rules, checkout, local picks, the host block, the home team, "good to know," the timeline, the list, the card a day, and the guest-book invitation.

Some things never copy, on purpose:

• Photos, voice recordings, videos and guest-book messages stay on their own page. They belong to that place and those people.
• The door code and the stay dates are left blank, so every guest still gets their own code.
• A PIN never copies. Neither do the host's photo and logo, since those are chosen from each page's own photos.
• Nothing you've already filled in is overwritten on the first pass. If a page already has its own rules, the copy skips them and asks you once whether to replace them too.

It only works on pages your account owns. You can't copy onto someone else's page, and nobody can copy onto yours.

Your library, and a file for the long lists

Copying works when you have one finished page to copy from. Sometimes you just have one good block you want to reuse: a set of house rules, a checkout routine, a home team you trust. Signed in, those sections now carry Save to my library and Insert from my library. Save it once and drop it into any page you own, then change it there as much as you like. The library copy stays as you saved it.

For the long lists (local picks, the home team, "good to know," the timeline and the tick-off list) there's Download as a file and Import from a file. The file is a plain spreadsheet file (CSV) that Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers all open. If you already keep your restaurant list or your contractor list in a spreadsheet, you can bring it straight in. An import adds rows. It never throws away the ones already there.

For the page's own keeper

If you own a page and you're signed in, you can now move it up a size yourself, straight from the page, and you pay only the difference. Before, that went through the maker every time, which was a lot of back-and-forth for something you should be able to just do. Everyone else who taps your page still sees the quiet "ask the maker" line, so nobody can buy their way into a page that's yours.

And if you've moved your page's sections around and want the standard order back, there's now one button for that: Put the sections back in the standard order. Nothing is deleted. It only changes the order.

For makers

• One search box above your tag list. Type an order number, the name you gave the tag, or its code, and the list narrows as you type. You can sort by level, newest, oldest, or order number, and each row now shows the name first and the details underneath, which reads much better on a phone.
• Shops using CraftedLink is live. On September 8 I promised that once you've put five CraftedLink tags out into the world, your shop would get a link on craftedlink.app. That's built now. It's on the makers page, and a shop appears there by itself once it has five active tags and a website filled in under Shop settings.

What else has landed since my last post

• Page types. A Story or Together page can be set up as a Welcome guide, a Closing gift, a Memorial, a Wedding page, or Service and honor, as well as a plain Story. The type only decides which sections sit up front and what a few headings say. Switching never deletes anything.
• A Wi-Fi block. The network name, a hidden password with a Copy button, and a code any other phone can scan to join. Turn it off and it disappears from the page but stays saved for next time.
• Photos open large. Tap any photo to see it full size, then swipe through. Photos can carry a one-line caption now, too.
• A card a day. A page can show a new verse, reading or quote every day, and it changes at your own midnight.

None of this changes the basics. You still build your own page yourself, free, as often as you like. The account is still optional. The ten years is still in writing. And the Save an offline copy button on your page's own setup link is still there, so you always have a copy of your own.

If you host, sell houses, or look after more than one page for any reason, I'd love to hear what would save you the next hour. Write to me. Most of what's in this post started as someone doing exactly that.

— Jennifer