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Digital estate checklist

Everything worth writing down before someone else needs it. Work through it in one sitting, print it, and tell one person where it lives.

This checklist runs entirely in your browser. Your progress is saved on this device only and never reaches our servers. There is nothing to sign up for.

Before you start

Write down locations and instructions, not raw passwords, unless the whole document is encrypted. A plain text file listing your bank password is a liability. And write it for someone who knows nothing about your systems, not for the person who watched you set them up.

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The critical five

If you do nothing else, do these. In an emergency they unlock most of the rest.

Money

Where it is, who holds it, and what is owed.

Insurance and benefits

Policies and benefits are easy to miss if nobody knows they exist.

Recurring costs

Things that keep charging or keep expiring after you stop.

Property and legal

The documents and the professionals who know about them.

Digital accounts

What exists, what matters, and what depends on you alone.

Platform legacy tools

Free, built in, and mostly unused. Turn on the ones that apply.

People

Who to tell, and who depends on you.

Wishes

The part that is not administrative, and often the part families are most grateful for.

Maintenance

The steps that decide whether any of the above ever gets used.

Ready when you are

A finished checklist helps most when the people you name can find it. HeirVault keeps what you leave encrypted in your browser, then lets those contacts claim after your check-in rules allow it.