Memory Layer

🌌 Memory Layer

A Trauma-Aware Storytelling Platform
“A second brain for nonlinear hearts.”

🧠 What Is Memory Layer?

Memory Layer is an in-development narrative development environment designed for writers who use storytelling not just as a craft—but as survival.

Created by multimedia archivist and fanfiction philosopher Zena Airale, with early development by SOTE and Wonder, Memory Layer offers an emotionally intelligent alternative to traditional writing platforms. It’s a trauma-aware, neurodivergent-inclusive space built for storytellers who treat their work as memory, mythology, and emotional timestamp.

Where other platforms prioritize publication, speed, or structure, Memory Layer prioritizes preservation, process, and permission. It’s a place where unfinished drafts matter, alternate timelines are celebrated, and revision becomes a record of healing—not just edits.

🔧 Core Features

Memory Layer is currently in its Phase 1 (MVP Design) stage, but already includes the following planned features:

📦 Block-Based Story Structure

• Every paragraph, scene, or emotional beat is a “block”

• Blocks can be moved, tagged, forked, and orphaned across drafts
  
  

🌱 Branching Drafts

• Fork alternate versions of a story without overwriting previous ones

• Compare branches side-by-side

• Merge with intention—not auto-resolve like Git
  
  

🪞 Nested Revision History

• View edits over time as emotional archaeology

• Restore old versions while preserving future branches
  
  

🧘 Mental Health-Aware Writing Tools

• Soft notifications: “You’ve written 3,000+ words tagged grief. Breathe?”

• Aftercare Mode: soft themes, journaling prompts, and dimmed workspace

• Reflection Logs for tracking emotional states
  
  

📚 Lore & Meta Tracking

• Built-in character databases, timelines, and relationship trees

• Auto-linking tags and hoverable tooltips

• “Universe Mode” to manage AUs, crossovers, and spin-offs
  
  

🔐 Privacy & Preservation

• Local-first storage with encrypted autosaves

• Offline backups and exportable “Story Capsules”

• No ads, no trackers, no forced cloud logins—ever
  
  

💭 Why We’re Building This

Memory Layer was born from necessity.

For years, Zena archived historical documents and oral histories—but couldn’t download her own hidden fanfic drafts from AO3. The irony was crushing. In a world full of platforms that hide or erase stories once they’re no longer public, she realized: there was no creative space that truly honored memory.

This is especially true for neurodivergent writers, trauma survivors, and emotional storytellers who need nonlinear scaffolding to preserve their own arcs. Memory Layer is our answer. It doesn’t ask who you should be when you write. It protects who you were.

🛠️ Current Team

• 🧠 Zena Airale — Creator / UX Architect / Lore Systems

• 🎨 SOTE — Visual Designer / Concept Artist

• 📚 Wonder — Writer Journey Modeler / Story Recovery UX
  
  

The project is developed under the Raykazai Productions umbrella, alongside other mission-driven creative works like Realm of Harmony and Through The Existence.

🤝 Join the Build

We’re currently inviting collaborators and volunteers to help us design, prototype, and eventually launch the platform.

Current Needs:

• UI/UX Designers (Figma, accessibility-focused)

• Electron/React/Markdown Developers

• SQLite / local-first storage architects

• Artists (Logo, UI icons, visual metaphors)

• Neurodivergent writers to test narrative recovery features

• Accessibility consultants and lore editors
  
  

If you’ve ever wished your stories had a home that loved you back—you belong here.

🔗 Links

• 🧷 Join the Memory Layer Discord

• 💻 Raykazai Productions Homepage

• 📁 Linktree: Raykazai Projects

• 🗃️ Memory Layer Design Doc: Available upon request
  
  

🌠 A Final Thought

“If we don’t build it, memory becomes myth—
and myth gets erased.”
— Zena Airale, 2025

We’re not just preserving stories.
We’re preserving the storytellers who wrote them.