01 · First Calls
CurrentWho to call first
Mom, then Carla at work, then Dr. Reyes after hours. The order matters — Carla can keep things at the office quiet for a day.
A SAMPLE BINDER
This is what your sister would see.
No app to install. No account to make. The same quiet page that opens to the three things she needs in the first hard hour, and keeps the rest waiting.
THE FICTIONAL SENDER
Maya Okonkwo lives in Oakland with her two kids. Her sister Tess lives in Sacramento and is the person Maya would want her family to reach for first. Maya built this binder in a single Sunday afternoon and reviews it every April. Below is the page Tess opens when she clicks the link Maya sent her.
Recipient view · revocable
WHAT TESS OPENS
Click the horizons. The order is the gift.
Survivors do not read top-to-bottom. They reach for what the next three days demand, then the week, then the month. The binder is sorted for that reader, not the writer.
From Maya Okonkwo, in Oakland
For Tess · a quiet binder
No account · No install
For her, in this window
What needs you in the first three days. Nothing else.
02 · Documents
CurrentWhere the will lives
Top drawer of the desk in the back bedroom, in the green folder. Lawyer is Eli Park at Park & Associates — number under First Calls.
03 · Documents
CurrentAdvance directive
Signed copy is in the same green folder. Hospital choice is Alta Bates. Tess is the named decision-maker.
04 · Devices & Access
SealedPhone passcode
Addressed to Tess. Only she can open it.
Exported by Maya · 2026-04-18
Revocable any time
Try the four tabs. Open the sealed envelope in the first 72 hours.
THE SEALED ENVELOPES
A small, named envelope — addressed to one person, only readable by her.
Three things in the binder are too sensitive to sit in the open — the phone passcode, the primary email, the password manager master. Maya seals each one inside a small envelope, addressed to Tess by name. Anyone with the link can read the rest of the binder. Only Tess can open hers.
The envelope is not a vault. It is a handoff. Maya sealed it on her own device. The page Tess opens has never seen what is inside — it shows up only on Tess's screen, after she verifies it is her, and only then.
You saw a placeholder above because this is a marketing page. In the real reader, the contents appear once — Maya's iPhone passcode, if you were Tess, in this hour, on her device.
WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE
A sample is not a full binder. It is the shape of one.
-
01
Real names and numbers. The sample uses fictional people. Your binder is built with the names your family already knows — the lawyer who drafted the will, the credit union from college, the after-hours line that actually answers.
-
02
The sealed contents. The envelope you opened above showed a placeholder. In the real reader, the envelope's contents appear on Tess's screen after she verifies it is her — and only then. The page itself never sees them.
-
03
A revocable link. Maya can pull the link any Tuesday. Tess loses access, the envelope re-seals, and the binder is private again until Maya decides otherwise.
-
04
Sealed Instructions. The single printed page Maya keeps in the fire safe — the offline fallback that makes the digital part trustworthy. Tess never has to know how it works for it to work.
START YOUR OWN
A sample is small. A binder is the work of one quiet afternoon.
Open the page. Add three names. Save the rest for Sunday. The sample becomes yours from the first line.