LifeScribe Vault Demo | Plan Your Digital Legacy Privately

So this is a demo of the Lifescribe Vault. This is a free open-source app that keeps real important details of your digital life organized, encrypted, and on your own computer. This data is stored so that in the event that you die or are unavailable and your family needs access to your data, they can have it completely organized here and an easy way to access it when necessary. So what I'm going to show you is just a couple of different sections here in the software. These are kind of the different categories of all the key information that's saved. Up here you'll see that there's a readiness, goes from 0 to 100%, and it's basically calculated on how much of the different areas you've completed. So you can start an area and then choose when it's completed And you can always revisit these and update them at a later time. So we're using demo data for a person called Alex Morgan. We're in the first section, which is the digital executors. So digital executor is essentially the person that you're going to designate to help your family members if they need help in the event that something happens to access this data. So maybe some of your family members or your significant other isn't very technical and could use some help. In any event, selecting this person will provide that help. So in this case, you can see the first executor is Jordan Reyes. They're set as a primary executor. There's primary and backup executors. Provides a relationship to the person and has address and contact deal information. It also shows that the status that they've been informed that they've been selected to be a digital executor and have agreed to it. So you can have as many as you want. Here's a backup person as well. And then once you complete that section, you can mark it as complete. This is probably the most important thing is if you're using a password manager, granting access to someone after you're not available is going to be critical to get into all these different accounts. And information. So you can choose what your password manager is in the dropdown. There is a selection for other if it's not listed, but this should contain most of them. You can put in your username or email, whatever's tied to the account. If you want, you can put the master password here, or you can also just store it in a location and provide directions as to where, where it's located. If there's additional details to be able to get into it like 2FA or passkey or other information, that information can be provided here as well. And you even have an additional emergency contact for this information too, which, you know, if you don't put in an executor and you just want additional details here, you can provide that as well. So move on to devices. Of course, you know, the password manager is going to probably be stored either on the computer or your phone or both. So they need access to the computer to get to the password manager. So here you've got one of the first device added is a MacBook Pro. Says what kind of device it is and tells you how to get in. So this one's with Touch ID as well as a passcode. And then you can put some more information here about the device. So we have other devices here. We've got the phone. as well with all the information to be able to get into the phone and a few additional other devices that have maybe login information or important information that you want somebody to be able to access. Then we move on to photos and videos. So you want to be able to provide the location of where all of those family photos and videos are stored. In this case, they have it on a NAS and they have it their phone, on an iPhone 15 using iCloud, so it provides all those details so somebody can access all the photos and videos of this person. You can then put in different documents that are important. Here you see they've got a last will and testament, a living trust, property deed, and as you click on each one of these, you can give the document a title, what category the document falls into, where the physical location of the document may be. If there's a digital version of it, you can provide either the digital location on the device, or you can actually attach the file here to your vault. And there's a viewer in the vault as well if you do decide to attach it here. And you can provide some notes about the document. So yeah, you can add as many documents as you want here with all those details. Then of course you want to provide details on how you're doing your backups, which you should be doing both locally and in the cloud. In the case of this person, they provide details on how their MacBook is being backed up using Time Machine and where to. Here they're backing up to the SSD on their machine and provides how often the backups are happening, whether they're encrypted, additional details here about the backups. And then here on the NAS, It also provides some information about the backups that are being done on the NAS, again with all the important details in the different fields. So lastly, you've got here in this example, this user is using Backblaze for cloud backup, and it provides information about the software and then how it's backed up, which is in the cloud, and then any additional details here Of course, access to all this would also be provided within your password manager as well to log into these. Let's move on to financial accounts. You can put a list all the different financial accounts you have with additional details. This one's a checking, it's a joint checking account. You've got account number information. It's only showing the last 4, but you can get the full account It's entered in here, it's just being masked here. And then is it stored in the password manager, how to access it, and additional details. So you would put all your different financial accounts so they're not left wondering which ones are covered or not covered. They should all be here. And then provide information about all the different subscriptions you've got. You know, some of them are shared with the family, some of them may not be. But either way, you can click in there, find out what type of membership it is, and then you can provide details on what action you want to take place for that membership. In this case, it's a workout membership, and you're going to cancel it because this person's no longer going to be using that. Shows cost, what the payment method is. So you have all these different details. You've got these interlinking between the subscription and which accounts which are under, you know, the different financial accounts. So all this information is important to be linked and understood as you're taking actions across all of these items. Um, then we'll move on to online accounts. So this could be social media accounts, different other accounts that are important like iCloud, your email account. Again, it'll ask, is it stored in the password manager? Are those details there? And then you can provide what you want done with all these different accounts. In the case of a, like, a Facebook social media account, you might say that you want this one to be memorialized and don't delete it. You may choose you want it deleted. So just put those requests for all these different accounts in here so someone knows what to do with them. Last thing here is the platform legacy tool. So many different services such as Google, Facebook, and Apple all have ways that you can configure the accounts in the case that someone were to pass away, how to be able to access them. So those details will be here. Google provides this inactive account manager, so Basically, you can set this up. You can have it email you over time. If it doesn't receive a response on the emails, then it knows to contact a backup, in this case after 6 months of inactivity, so that they can get access to the account and choose what to do with it or get the data from it. But you need to set this up ahead of time. I know it's a lot of information across all of this stuff, so I'm just really trying to cover it more at a high level. Any one of these topics could be topics that you dig into into much deeper as you go into this setup process. Lastly, you have the recovery kit. So after you filled all this out, all the information is here in a document that you can then either print or save it as a PDF and put it somewhere else. Maybe you just use this and, you know, put a printed copy in a safe. But again, you do still have this file on your computer, which by the way, this is— all this data is encrypted on your computer and it's password protected when you create this file on your computer. You can also create a backup of this data from this program. You can restore from a backup. And lastly, under Settings, you can choose where to locate this data file on your computer, and then you can change your password here if you need to. There's also a help screen which you can use to get help. And lastly, this is kind of a big deal here too. So every— all the different categories here that were created were just based on kind of like a baseline of what fields would be important for each of these sections and creating records within the sections. Now if you go into the form editor, you actually have the ability to edit the fields. You can add fields, delete fields, change them, all of that in this built-in editor. So you do have flexibility. It's not rigid in that you can only use the fields that are built in. So for now, I'm just going to say done. I'm going to turn off the form editor, but just know that you have the freedom to do that if you need to. Hopefully this was helpful, and yeah, it's really important for you to save this information and provide it to someone in the event, in the event that it's necessary in the future. That's it. Thank you.