Leave not chaos.
Build the one binder your family will reach for if you can’t be there to explain.
BY WHEN, NOT BY CATEGORY
Survivors don’t read top-to-bottom.
So Afterward organizes everything by when they’ll need it. The first 72 hours sit at the top. The slow paperwork waits below.
What they need before anyone else asks: your phone passcode, where the will lives, who to call first.
- Phone passcode (sealed)
- Primary contacts
- Hospital choice & advance directive
AND THE PERSON WHO’LL OPEN IT
Maya opens a link. She finds you waiting.
No app to install. No account to make. The first thing she sees is what she needs in the next twelve hours, in the order she’ll need it.
See what they seeHow it works
Three quiet sessions. Then it’s there if anyone needs it.
- 01
Start with what’s in your head
A five-minute wizard captures your contacts, accounts, and the documents that matter. You’ll have a working binder before the kettle boils.
- 02
Seal what only you should know
Three keys: your phone passcode, your primary email, your password manager. Sealed in envelopes addressed to the person you name. Only they can open them.
- 03
Hand it to who needs it
A revocable link, organized not by category but by when they’ll need it. The first 72 hours sit at the top. The slow paperwork waits below.
LETTERS
The phone sat on the counter for eleven days. I knew the first four digits, I’d watched him type them waiting for coffee, but never the last two. After ten tries it told me to wait an hour. After more, a day. Six digits. That was the whole wall between me and everything I needed.
Five minutes today. A binder ready when it matters.
Start with your contacts. Add the rest at your own pace, across a few quiet evenings.