How it works
Start with the first ten things. Name your person. Fill the easy sections. You can stop there and still leave something usable.
Twenty quiet minutes
The point is not to finish your life in an afternoon. The point is to leave a working first page, written plainly, so the right person is not starting from nothing.
The useful binder starts with dull, concrete facts. You are not writing a life story. You are answering the questions someone would ask in the first hour.
The spare key.
Who has it, where they live, and whether they know they are the spare-key person. One line is enough.
The first call.
The person Maya should call before anyone else. A sibling, a neighbor, the lawyer who knows where the signed papers are.
One household fact.
The furnace switch. The alarm code. The pet food. Pick the thing that would make the first day less chaotic and write one sentence.
4 minutes
Afterward is built around a named recipient, not a generic emergency folder. Choose who should open the binder first, then keep control of the handoff.
Pick the first reader.
The person who would actually be called: your partner, sister, adult child, or the friend who already knows how your household works.
Set the boundary.
They are not notified yet. You decide when a link goes out, what it includes, and whether sealed envelopes are addressed to them.
Keep it reversible.
Change the person, change the contents, revoke the link. The binder stays yours until you decide otherwise.
6 minutes
Home, contacts, daily life, and the three sealed envelopes. The dull sections are the gift. Skip anything heavy and come back on Sunday.
Home and daily life.
Utilities, pets, keys, bins, medications, the people who know the house. Small facts beat perfect completeness.
Documents without the scavenger hunt.
Where the will, insurance, deed, title, and tax folder live. You can point to originals without uploading every page today.
The three sealed envelopes.
Phone passcode, primary email, password manager master phrase. Address them by name, or leave them blank until you are ready.
10 minutes
Three envelopes, sealed. Each one addressed to a named person. You write what is inside. Afterward keeps the envelope closed until that person is allowed to open it.
The ordinary binder tells people where to look. The sealed envelopes are reserved for the few things a named person should only see at the right time.
The code that opens the device where messages, photos, and two-step codes live.
The first locked door most families meet.
The account most other services use to reset access, send alerts, and confirm identity.
The key that helps find the other keys.
The master phrase or instruction that opens the place holding the rest.
Enough to continue without making a copy of everything.
Three guarantees
No jargon. The person opening it sees the next thing, not a manual.
You decide who reads what, and when. Sensitive details do not go broadly to everyone.
Your binder stays editable until the person you named is allowed to open it.
The handoff
The link arrives in a quiet email. They open it and the binder is already there — no app, no account, no setup.
Organised by time, not by category. The first 72 hours sit at the top. Slow paperwork waits below until they have the bandwidth.
Sealed envelopes only the named person can open. The phone passcode, the email, the master phrase — addressed by name on the outside.
A single link, revocable in a tap. If you change your mind, the door closes. Nothing about this is one-way.
I wrote this so you do not have to guess. The urgent pieces are here first. The rest can wait until tomorrow.
The courtesy interval
A long, considerate pause built into the product. You can tune it longer. You cannot make it shorter than this.
Day 60
If you stop opening Afterward, we send a single short note asking if anything has changed. Not a marketing email. A courtesy.
Day 67
If we still haven’t heard from you, the people you named can ask to read what you left them. You have a full week to say no.
After
The link opens for the person addressed on it. The sealed envelopes stay sealed unless they choose to open them.
Once a year
Afterward asks once a year whether anything has changed: a new account, a moved address, a different person you’d want named. The annual review is the only proactive note we send you about your binder.
Most years it takes a few minutes. Some years you skip it. Either is fine. The binder is yours; the review is a courtesy.
Export anytime
On every plan, including the free one, you can export the entire binder in two forms: a printable PDF that reads end to end, and a portable archive of the underlying data in plain, documented formats.
No vendor lock-in. No "premium-only" data. The day you decide we are not for you, you walk out with everything legible without us.
Begin when ready
Free to start. No card. Start with the first ten things and leave the rest for Sunday.