DeathNote
Free digital legacy plan template

Organize Your Digital Life Without Sharing Your Secrets

Create a practical map of accounts, devices, files, online work, and external emergency-access instructions so trusted people know what exists and where to begin.

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Why This Helps

Families often know important accounts exist but not how they should be handled. A safe plan records services and instructions while passwords and recovery secrets stay in an external password manager or secure location.

Account map

List the services that matter without copying credentials.

  • Primary email and cloud services
  • Financial and subscription services
  • Social, creative, and business accounts

Secure access

Point to approved external recovery arrangements.

  • Password-manager emergency access
  • External recovery-instruction location
  • Trusted technical helper

Preserve or close

Record what should happen to important digital material.

  • Photos, writing, and creative work
  • Websites and online businesses
  • Memorialize, archive, transfer, or delete preferences

What a Useful Digital Legacy Plan Looks Like

This fictional example shows the level of detail that can make a plan useful. Adapt the structure to your life and leave out private access secrets.

Example note

My digital accounts and files

Where to begin

My primary email is the account used for household services and important receipts. A current account inventory is stored in my password manager under ‘Legacy map.’ Sam is my designated emergency-access contact there and knows how to begin the documented request process.

What matters most

Family photos are organized by year in my main cloud drive and backed up to the labeled external drive in the home office. Please preserve the photo archive and my finished writing. The old freelance website can be closed after final invoices and tax records are exported.

Account preferences

Memorialize my main social profile, cancel entertainment subscriptions, and keep the family domain renewed for one year while relatives save anything they need. Do not place passwords, recovery codes, or device unlock details in this note; use the external emergency-access process.

What to Gather

A few details are enough to start. You can revise the note whenever circumstances change.

  • Password-manager and emergency-access status
  • Device and cloud-storage inventory
  • Online business and creative-work details
  • A trusted technical contact

Important boundary

DeathNote should not contain passwords, private keys, seed phrases, recovery codes, or device unlock secrets. This plan is organizational guidance, not legal advice or authorization to access an account.

Questions Worth Answering

You do not need every answer today. Start with the question another person would have the hardest time answering for you.

  1. Which email account unlocks the rest of your digital life?
  2. Which photos, files, domains, or creative work would be painful to lose?
  3. Have Apple, Google, Meta, or your password manager's legacy tools actually been configured?
  4. Which accounts should be preserved, transferred, memorialized, archived, or deleted?

Keep the plan useful

Review when you change your primary email, phone, password manager, two-factor method, devices, business ownership, or legacy contact. A list that points to stale access arrangements can be worse than no list.

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Make It Private, Editable, and Deliverable

Open the exact outline in DeathNote, confirm it before anything changes, and decide who should receive the finished note.

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