At the Permanent Legacy Foundation, it’s our goal to provide you with the tools you need to preserve your legacy. We are constantly working on improving our platform to provide you with a better experience and more functionality to accomplish your goals.

We want you to know what we’re working on and what we have in store for the future. Please note that this is a working document and that all release dates are estimates. Check back often for updates or subscribe to our newsletter for the most up to date announcements.

We’d love to hear from you about our planned improvements or anything you think might be missing from our list.

Category	Description
New Features	Gifting Storage to Others Allows members to gift some of their storage to other Permanent members and invite new members to join Permanent with a gift of storage.
Improvements	Search within a Public Archive Add search capabilities to the public gallery that allow you to search within individual public archives by tags and custom metadata.
3rd Party Support & Integrations	Rclone Allows members to sync files from your computer to your Permanent archive using an Rclone client or directly from the command line as well as any SFTP file transfer client like Transmit or FileZilla.

Category	Description
New Features	Legacy Planning Our new Legacy Planning features will allow you to designate what you want to happen to your Permanent account and your Permanent archives when you are gone. The first step of this feature will include options for you to delete or memorialize your account, as well as choose what you want to do with any Permanent Archives you own.
Improvements	Search within a Public Archive Add search capabilities to the public gallery that allow you to search within individual public archives by file title. Extensible Metadata Management Permanent tags already allow you to use key:value pairs so you can use any metadata standard you would like. The Archive Settings menu will include a section to view and edit all key:value tags in an archive in one place. Zooming on Images New functionality in our image viewer so you can zoom in and out of your images. Alt-Text Add alt-text to images across the workspaces and in public gallery pages to improve accessibility. Improvements to Onboarding Add goal setting and other questions to help members get started building their archive. Allow 5GB Uploads on Web App Allow for uploading individual files over 5GB through the web app.
3rd Party Support & Integrations	Publish Permanent-SDK Permanent will release an open SDK available in our GitHub repository that allows 3rd party apps to write integrations to Permanent. This will allow members to save their materials without leaving apps like Theirstory.io, Hyper.audio, Etherpad, etc. directly to their Permanent Archives.

Category	Description
New Features	Text files (.txt) Support for viewing text files (.txt) within Permanent archives. Auto Add Storage Add an option to automatically add storage to your account during uploads if you reach your storage allotment. Donate to an Archive As part of our mission, our Byte4Byte grant program provides permanent storage for nonprofit organizations. Soon, members will be able to designate that they’d like your donation to go towards the Byte4Byte program or to a specific archive. Crop Photos for Profile Picture Adding the ability to select which part of an image you wish to use as your archive’s profile picture. Write Permanent Metadata to Files Files downloaded from Permanent will include any metadata you’ve added on Permanent embedded within the file, in adherence to best practices from savemetadata.org (previously the Family History Metadata Working Group). Anyone with the Link Can View Share When creating a share link, you can choose to allow anyone with the link to have full access to the files within the share without having to log in or create a Permanent.org account.
Improvements	Bulk Edit Metadata Add additional features to allow selecting multiple files at once to make bulk changes to the metadata of all selected files, such as changing the titles of selected files to a sequential naming convention, or adding tags, descriptions, or locations. Upload Status Bar We’ve redesigned the upload status bar to provide you with more assurance and confidence as you preserve your materials. You’ll be able to see the status of your files as they upload. If a file fails to upload, you’ll receive a notification and error message so you can address the issue. Search Improvements Add additional search capabilities within the public gallery and within individual archives.
3rd Party Support & Integrations	Hyperaudio Hyperaudio is open source technology that links audio tracks with transcripts. Hyperaudio uses timing metadata from modern speech-to-text algorithms to make transcripts interactive. Hyperaudio users will be able to publish their content to Permanent directly from the Hyperaudio app.

Category	Description
New Features	Convert Files on Download When downloading files, you will be able to choose from a number of different file formats (including your original file format) to receive your file. Export Metadata Export the metadata for your files in your archive in a separate file. Download Your Archive We know that our members’ preservation plans may include other storage platforms. This feature will allow you to bulk download all files and metadata from your files if you would like to store them elsewhere or wish to no longer use Permanent.org. Tagging Photographs Allow for tagging individuals or items within a photograph. Bulk Import Metadata Import metadata to Permanent using a .csv file or other delimited file.
Improvements	Public Archives Gallery Add functionality to follow, subscribe to, and favorite a public archive in the Permanent Gallery. Transfer Files Between Archives With the correct archive permissions, members will be able to transfer or move files between archives. New Views for Milestones and Folders Add new ways to visualize your archive’s milestones and folders in your archive such as map views, time sorted views, and filters. Analytics We currently use Google Analytics in select parts of our website and system. Although Google Analytics does not receive any Permanent member data, we wish to use and support an analytics system that better adheres with our mission and values and protects our members’ data.
3rd Party Support & Integrations	Trusted Digital Repository Certification Pursue becoming a trusted digital repository through Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) or other similar certification processes. Takenode.orgTAKENODE.org offers content creators a practical, powerful tool to register their 'Terms of Use'. Relevant information about the file, creator and intentions packaged in an unique TakeNode Certificate. Sharing the TakeNode certificate as part of the content offers digital platforms and their users an easy to understand mandate. Permanent will build an integration that uses TakeNode to provide licensing for the materials in our members’ public archives. Webrecorder Webrecorder provides a suite of open source tools and packages to capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time as accurately as possible. Permanent will build an integration to make preserving and viewing personal websites and web materials on Permanent possible. OAuth Permanent will expand account management options to include more robust password and login controls, login with trusted sites (Facebook, Google, FamilySearch, etc.) as well as making it possible for users to grant account access to 3rd party partner apps like Theirstory.io, Hyper.audio, Etherpad, etc. Hyperaudio in Permanent Hyperaudio is open source technology that links audio tracks with transcripts. Hyperaudio uses timing metadata from modern speech-to-text algorithms to make transcripts interactive. This integration will allow Permanent members to use Hyperaudio for their audio recordings for interactive transcripts. Etherpad Etherpad is an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document in real time, track contributions, revert changes, and live chat. Permanent will release its prototype etherpad plugin to save your etherpad notes to your Archive as a fully integrated feature.