Afterward is a family emergency binder you keep online: where the spare key is, who to call first, which bills are paid when. Written in your words, for the person you trust.
2 · Household
Trash and recycling go out on Monday night. The Wi-Fi details are on the card behind the router.
Choose anything on the table to read its line. An example household, with fictional details.
2 · Household
The spare key is in the ceramic bowl on the walnut sideboard. Lena Patel, next door at no. 14, has another.
1 · First Calls
Jonah, our brother, in Berkeley. He knows the family and our lawyer.
8 · Care Routines
Biscuit: one scoop at seven in the morning and six in the evening. The vet’s card is in the kitchen drawer beside Biscuit’s treats.
9 · A Letter for Them
Let Milo help with Biscuit. Let June choose the story. You don’t have to get any of it right.
You write your binder a chapter at a time, in the order a household runs, answering one question and then the next. Afterward sets your answers in the order the person you name would need them.
It lives on the web, and prints whenever you want it on paper.
1 · First Calls
Who should hear it before anyone else?
Jonah. He knows the family and the family lawyer. His number is 510-555-0108.
Second on the first page Tess reads
2 · Household
Where does the spare key live, and who has the other one?
The ceramic bowl on the walnut sideboard. Lena Patel, next door at no. 14, has the other one.
First on the first page Tess reads
8 · Care Routines
Where would someone find the medicines?
The kitchen drawer beside the fridge. The list of who takes what is in there too.
Third on the first page Tess reads
When you do, they read your binder in the order they would need it, starting with the first 72 hours, with no app or account.
Addressed to
Tess, start here. Everything else can wait.
A link works like a spare key: whoever holds it can read the pages you shared.
Turn it off and it stops working at once, and your history shows each time it was used.
The useful facts, and the instructions that make them usable.
The people to call first, and how they can help.
Keys, utilities, and the people who help keep home running.
Where accounts are held, and how to find the useful records.
The policies, providers, and contacts someone would need.
The important papers, where they live, and who has copies.
The devices and accounts they need to know about, and where access details live.
Regular payments, what happens automatically, and what needs attention.
Everyday care for people and pets, and who can step in.
A personal note, in your own words. What you want them to hear.
What goes here
What goes here
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What goes here
What goes here
What goes here
The hardest page, and the one this product was built for: where the laptop and the iPad live, and which phone everything else routes through. Three details on it will be sealed on your device, for the person you name, before they reach us. Sealed envelopes are planned for Family and not available yet.
What goes here
What goes here
What goes here
You don’t need to know where to start. Each page begins with one question, and the little details are what make an answer useful.
One question to a page.
The little details make it useful.
Choose who’d need it first.
Home · Claire’s binder
The binder is taking shape.
In the binder
4 of 9 begun
5 · Documents
Where do the papers live?
One document or location per line.
Who sees this page
Nothing is shared until you choose.
A new key, a different routine, a small update. Change one page when it does.
Each will be sealed on your device, for the person you name, before it reaches us.
Why we made it
We know how heavy love can become when it has to guess. Afterward is the binder we wish had been in the drawer.
James and Kelly
Start with one thing the person you trust would need to know: where the spare key is.
Then the first call, then one fact about the house. That is a usable first page.
