Recap Books

05/24/2026

Is your Facebook tied to your old, deactivated email? It's okay, you can still download your memories. https://recapbooks.com/youre-not-locked-out-of-facebook/

Facebook built recovery tools for exactly this situation. Most people miss them because the screen makes it look like the dead email is your only option.

Read all the options, in order of ease, on the Recap Books blog.

(And once you get back in, the archive download is two minutes. Just saying.)

04/11/2026

recapbooks.com/he-built-this-for-me
Halfway to Pennsylvania, I told him about this problem.
Halfway home he promised to build me something.

04/04/2026

In 2013, I dropped my phone and it hit the corner of the coffee table at just the right angle. Screen gone. Data unrecoverable.

This photo survived because I posted it to Facebook. The one I loved most -- just me and my baby boy, his cherubic cheeks pressed against mine -- is stuck in a broken phone that I still have sitting in a bin, just in case someone someday figures out how to recover it.

For a lot of us, our Facebook feed is the backup plan we never knew we had.

But only if you recover it before the platform changes, the account gets hacked, or the tech graveyard claims something else.

Your memories are sitting there right now. How long are you going to leave them?

Read the full post: https://recapbooks.com/tech-graveyard

03/28/2026

In 1990, a man in Boston bought a typewriter store. He knew it was a silly time to do it. But he loved the work, so he did it anyway.

Ten years later he was one of the only typewriter stores left in the country. Then high school kids started coming in for typewriters to write poetry. Business boomed.

Everything old is new again.

I've never invited someone to flip through my cloud account over a cup of coffee. But I have shared our printed Facebook history with our kids, with family, with friends sitting in the kitchen.

A book is old technology. It will also outlive every social media platform we've ever used.

Someday your kids will pull your Recap off a shelf. What will they find?

Read the full post: https://recapbooks.com/everything-old-is-new-again

03/19/2026

Her mom used a stapler.

Not photo corners. Not archival paper. A stapler, haphazardly placed, with hastily scribbled notes.

And it was the best photo album The Bearded Iris had ever seen. Because it was actually done.

The number one reason people don't make their Recap book is that their feed isn't complete enough. Or their captions weren't good enough. Or they didn't post every trip they took.

Done is better than perfect. It always has been.

What moments are sitting in your feed right now, waiting?

Read the full post: https://recapbooks.com/done-is-better-than-perfect

03/15/2026

I don't remember why I was making a cake that day. But because I posted it on Facebook, I know it was April 18, 2011 — probably Easter — and I know exactly how my baby looked when I handed him the chocolate-covered be**er.

I hadn't thought about that afternoon in years. Until I turned my Facebook posts into a book.

What moments are sitting in your feed that you've completely forgotten?

👉 Read the full post: https://recapbooks.com/what-can-happen-in-twenty-years

02/14/2026

Today isn’t really about flowers.

It’s about the story you’ve built together.

The posts.
The trips.
The anniversaries.
The ordinary Tuesdays that meant more than you realized.

Your timeline already holds your love story.

Turn it into something you hold on to.

Rescue your timeline.
Give your story a place to live.

02/12/2026

Venture School was worth every minute and every effort. The way it helped move us forward was powerful, but, more importantly, the people were incredible and we had tons of fun! Thanks to everyone who makes Venture School happen across Iowa.

Registration is now open for Venture School – Ottumwa!

Venture School is a statewide, hands-on training program designed for startups, small businesses, and nonprofits looking to sharpen entrepreneurial skills and validate new ideas. Using the NSF I-Corps curriculum, participants gain real-world experience through customer discovery, experimentation, and mentorship.

Hosted by Iowa JPEC, Venture School equips founders and innovators with the tools they need to grow.

📍 Ottumwa
📅 March 5 – April 9
➡️ Registration now open: https://bit.ly/3LnaVEN

02/07/2026

Come see us in Marshalltown!
We're at the Love is in the Air show.
https://facebook.com/events/s/6th-annual-love-is-in-the-air-/639287289240636/

02/05/2026

Come see us right now at the Made with Love Market!
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17WqHuPDax/