The IT Nerd

Djed Studios today announced the March 13, 2015 preview release of their new application Djed, named after the Egyptian hieroglyphic representing stability.

Pronounced “Jed,” the site is an all-encompassing “family” of applications and is the first comprehensive app designed specifically for families. It’s a mobile and desktop web application for capturing and sharing all the family’s vital information like health, wealth, projects, sports, school, trips, whatever a digital family needs. It’s an integrated set of features including a Calendar, Contacts, Documents, Notes, Lists, Photos, Assets, and more. The most radical idea is that Djed allows a family to build a “Tribe,”—a list of people, like relatives and close friends—who can then share information with each other over this private network. Djed is a new and essential social productivity application for the family (and extended family) unit. Whether you’re at work or traveling or at home, Djed gives you one secure place to keep family content—safely and securely. Initially launched as a web app, Djed will deploy on iOS shortly after launch, with an Android version to come later in the year.

Djed is a private place where family content can live for years and different families will use Djed in different ways, depending on their stage of life and what they’d like to keep track of. While a couple without children might use Djed primarily for things like planning an anniversary trip and day-to-day money management, larger families with school-aged children and busy lives might use it to schedule school activities, maintain a family budget, run a vacation property and keep track of aging parents’ health needs.

With its extensive, varied set of features, there’s really no limit to how families can use Djed, be that something as simple as finding a better shared experience for family photos, or as in-depth as a secure place to store and share financial and medical histories and records. Trips, sports, arts, camps, health, hikes, and holidays, Djed has something for every family.

Additionally, Djed is built like an enterprise app and supports simple but powerful permissions for all types of content, so mom and dad can manage money while the kids share photos and social schedules, and grandma and grandpa can keep up with the kids’ scholastic and athletic achievements.

Djed has raised over $4 million so far from a celebrated list of angel investors including its founder, its Chairman Mark Booth, former European CEO of Netjets, restaurateur Danny Meyer (Shake Shack), and John Frieda, the English hair mogul. I’d check out the beta when it becomes available. It sounds very interesting.

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