Volume OneA few words
Name the book and give the date.
Save this in Nova’s book for May 17, 2026: The spoon was mostly a drumstick. We laughed all through lunch.
Volume One for ChatGPT
A little moment.
Straight into your book.
Keep a story or an attached photo in Volume One, while you’re talking to ChatGPT. The little things have somewhere to go.
Private preview · Invited test accounts only
How to connectRecorded in the private preview with a sample book. Edited to show the steps.
Read the transcriptSay it your way.
Tell ChatGPT which book, what happened and when. These are examples to adapt to your own family.
A photo and its story
Attach your photo to the message first.
Add this photo to Nova’s book for May 18, 2026, with the caption ‘Spoon practice.’ Keep these words: Most of lunch landed on the bib. The spoon was worth the experiment.
A look back
Check what you’ve already kept.
Show me the memories saved in Nova’s book for May 2026.
Getting connected
Your book.
Your permission.
The connection is being tested with approved accounts. It isn’t publicly listed or enabled for production books yet.
Ask about the previewAlready have access? Follow these steps with the setup details supplied for your test account.
Have a book ready.
Use the approved Google account to sign in to the Volume One preview. Open or create your test book there and let it sync to your account. A book saved only on your device won’t appear in ChatGPT.
Add Volume One in ChatGPT.
On ChatGPT’s website, open Plugins, choose +, then Add custom MCP server. Enter the connection URL and OAuth details supplied for your preview. Review the permissions, create the plugin and install it.
Custom connections depend on your ChatGPT account and workspace settings. OpenAI’s connection guide
Choose which books to connect.
When prompted, sign in to Volume One with the same Google account. Select the books ChatGPT may access, review the read and save permissions, and allow attached photos if you want to add them.
Keep your first moment.
Start a new ChatGPT Work conversation on the web, type @ and choose Volume One. Name the book and date, add your words and attach a photo if you like. Review the details before approving a save.
Open Volume One after its next cloud sync to see what was kept and where it landed in the book.
You decide
what belongs.
The connection saves new words and photos to the books you select. Use the website for page design, existing edits, voice notes and family sharing.
Saving a memory doesn’t publish a family link or place a print order. ChatGPT’s approval prompts follow your account settings. Check the details, especially the date and book, before a save.
You can disconnect in Volume One under Account → Connected plugins. Your saved memories stay in your book.
How Volume One handles your memoriesA few practical things.
Can I connect my book today?
The ChatGPT connection is a private preview for approved test accounts. It is not publicly listed or enabled for production books yet. Contact support@volumeone.app to ask about access. You can keep using the regular Volume One web app while the connection is being tested.
Which photos can I add?
The preview accepts still JPEG, PNG, WebP and AVIF photos: up to three per request, each at most 20 MB and 40 megapixels. Animated images and HEIC aren’t supported; convert HEIC to JPEG first. Attach the files to your ChatGPT message, then name the book, date and any caption you want to keep.
Will it change my words or publish my book?
Ask ChatGPT to keep your exact words, and review the proposed date, book, caption and text before approving a save. A save adds a memory; it does not publish a family link or order a printed book. If a memory cannot fit on a page, the result tells you whether it was kept in Memories only.
Can I edit pages or add voice notes this way?
This preview adds new text and photos and reads saved memories. Use Volume One on the web to create a book, edit existing memories, design the pages and covers, record voice notes, or manage family sharing.
What can ChatGPT access?
You choose which cloud-saved books to connect and review the permissions for reading books and memories, saving memories and keeping attached photos. Unselected books are not available through this connection. Anything you choose to send to ChatGPT is also handled under your ChatGPT account’s settings and OpenAI’s policies.
How do I disconnect?
In the Volume One environment you connected, open Account, then Connected plugins, and choose Disconnect. This stops future access through that connection and keeps memories already saved. You can also remove the plugin in ChatGPT; use Volume One’s Disconnect control to revoke its book access.
Read the video transcript
On screen: Nova’s sample album is selected, a memory and photo are saved, and the same photo appears in the web book. A repeated save is checked for duplicates.
A few words can hold a whole memory. Here, ChatGPT reads back one saved in Volume One.
Choose Nova’s album, and allow the attached photo to be kept.
Add a family photo and the story that goes with it. The photo, caption, and words are saved together.
Open Volume One on the web, and there’s the same photo.
Here, repeating the save leaves two memories, with no extra copy.
Words and photos, together in the same family book. This ChatGPT connection is an early preview.
There’s a whole first year
in the little things.
Start a book on the web today, or explore what a finished one can become.
Volume One is an independent product. ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI.