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Digital legacy checklist

A digital legacy checklist tells your family who to call, how to get into your devices, which accounts matter and where your papers are. Fill in the sections below, print it, and keep a copy with your will.

Your checklist

Don't type passwords, PINs or recovery phrases here. This page is for saying where things are and who to ask. Secrets belong somewhere sealed: a password manager with emergency access, a Legacy Vault, or a sealed envelope held by your lawyer, such as James Miller.

Saved only in this browser, on this device.

1 People to contact

Who should hear first, and who knows what to do next.

Names and how to reach them. For example: Emma Clarke, my sister, by phone.

For example: James Miller, family lawyer, and where his office is.

Anyone who handles money, pensions or benefits for you.

Your Apple Legacy Contact, password manager emergency contact, or Legacy Card holders.

2 Devices and how to get into them

Say where each device is and who can open it. Write where a code is kept, never the code itself.

For example: iPhone in the desk drawer, MacBook in the study.

For example: my Apple Legacy Contact is Emma; the Mac code is in the sealed envelope James Miller holds.

Home Wi-Fi router, security cameras, smart locks, external drives, a car's app.

3 Important accounts

Which accounts matter, and what you want done with each. List names, not passwords.

Email is how most other accounts get reset, so list every address.

Which one, and whether emergency access is set up and for whom.

Keep as a memorial, download and delete, or close.

Streaming, cloud storage, apps, memberships.

4 Documents and where they are

The originals your family will be asked for, and the place each one is kept.

Where the signed original is. For example: with James Miller.

For example: scans in the Bunker vault "Family Papers".

5 Money and insurance

Name the institutions so nothing is missed. Leave out account numbers; your executor can get them.

Company names and where the policies are.

Which wallets exist and where the recovery is kept. Never the recovery phrase itself.

6 Digital photos and memories

Photos are often the thing families miss most, and the hardest to reach.

iCloud Photos, Google Photos, a hard drive, an old phone.

Albums or folders you'd rather nobody opened.

7 Wishes

The things only you can say.

Or where you've left them.

How it works, and your privacy

Everything you type stays in this browser on this device. The page saves it to your browser's local storage as you type, so it's still here if you come back. It makes no network requests, sets no cookies and sends nothing to us. Clear everything deletes it. If local storage is turned off, the page still works but forgets everything when you close it.

Print gives a clean copy on Letter or A4 paper, with empty lines under anything you left blank so you can finish it by hand. Choose "Save as PDF" in the print dialog for a file instead, and keep that file somewhere private.

What a checklist can't do

  • It doesn't give anyone access. It tells them where to look. Access comes from things you set up: an Apple Legacy Contact, password manager emergency access, or a Legacy Vault.
  • It isn't a will, and it doesn't replace one. Ask a lawyer about what your state or country needs.
  • A printed copy is only as private as the drawer it's in. Keep it with your will or with your lawyer.

Where the secrets go

A Legacy Vault in Bunker holds the things this list points to: scans of your will and policies, the recovery for a crypto wallet, a letter. You give Legacy Cards to trusted contacts, and enough of them together can open it. In this version they can open it at any time, including while you're alive, so choose people you trust today. See Legacy for how it works.

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Questions

Where is my checklist saved?

Only in this browser on this device, in its local storage. It isn't sent anywhere, so only someone using this browser on this device could see it. It stays until you press Clear everything or clear your browser's site data. A private window forgets it when you close the window.

Should I write passwords in my digital legacy checklist?

No. A list that says where everything is plus the passwords to it is the most valuable thing a thief could find. Write where access is kept instead, and keep the secrets themselves somewhere sealed: a password manager with emergency access, a Legacy Vault in Bunker, or a sealed envelope held by your lawyer.

Who should get a copy?

Your executor and one person you trust, usually the same people named on your will. Print it, sign and date it, and give a copy to each, or keep it with your will. Update it once a year or after any big change.