1. Emergency overview
Include your trusted contacts, doctors, attorney, accountant, insurance agent, and where urgent documents are stored.
Family organizer
Build a Digital Legacy Binder
A binder can be physical, digital, or both. Its job is simple: help the right person find the right information without exposing everything to everyone.
2. Devices and access
Explain where device passcodes and password manager emergency access instructions are stored. Avoid placing raw passwords in the binder.
3. Money and bills
List banks, retirement accounts, insurance policies, payment apps, autopay bills, utilities, loans, and subscriptions.
4. Photos and files
Map cloud accounts, external drives, shared albums, scanned records, and archives that should be preserved.
5. Online accounts
Include email, social media, domains, websites, cloud storage, business tools, creator platforms, and shopping accounts.
6. Personal wishes
Add notes about memorial preferences, messages to family, pet care, home instructions, and what should be deleted or kept private.
Make it manageable
Do one section at a time
Start with the emergency overview and account inventory. A useful half-finished binder is better than an imaginary perfect one.