Finding people
How to find a stranger who helped you
These searches succeed more often than people expect, because the other person usually remembers it too — a small act at the right moment tends to stay with both people.
Fix the moment in time and place
The street, the station, the shop, the weather, the day of the week. If you can pin down where and roughly when, you've done most of the work.
Say what they did, exactly
Not 'someone was kind' — what they said, what they carried, what they gave you, how long they stayed. That's the part they'd recognise.
Make it easy to be shared
This is the kind of memory local groups pass around. Post it publicly, keep it short, and leave your contact details out — the platform handles the introduction.
What noknokk can do
- Hold the memory publicly so someone who knows them can recognise it
- Match it against their own account of the same day
- Introduce you both only if you each agree
What it can't
- Identify anyone from a description alone
- Search cameras, records or social media
- Promise the person ever sees it
What to write down
- 1. Exactly where it happened
- 2. The date, or the closest you can get to it
- 3. What they did and what was said
- 4. What you never got to tell them
How your privacy works here
Read the full safety rulesNobody sees your name until you both say yes
Identity, photo and contact stay sealed on both sides until each of you accepts.
No DNA, no records, no people-search
We hold no birth, adoption or care files and buy no data. Only what people choose to write.
A permanent do-not-contact switch
Turn it on and you stop appearing to anyone, in both directions, for good.
No public profiles
There is nothing to browse about you — only the memory you chose to post.
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