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Someone you love set a switch. The email just landed. Here is the first 72 hours: what to open, what not to touch, and what can wait.

A setting inside Apple or Google can outrank your will. Here's the actual hierarchy, the Keychain hole, and how to make the settings and the documents say the same names.

Open-when letters only work if they arrive. How to write letters for an 18th birthday, a wedding day, or a hard season — and make sure they're actually delivered.

Estate plans decay from the day you make them. Here's a catalog of what silently breaks, plus a quarterly and annual maintenance schedule to keep yours alive.

A legacy journal is written for someone, not just about yourself. Here's how to start one, keep it going, and make sure your family actually receives it.

A complete death binder checklist — every document, password, and wish your family will need — plus an honest look at where paper binders fail and how to fix it.

A walk through the exact email your people receive when your switch fires — the subject line, your letter, their documents — and how to preview it yourself today.

We launched Killswitch as a zero-knowledge product. In 2026 we moved away from it — on purpose. Here's the honest reasoning, what changed, and exactly what we trade off.

Documents, notes, recordings, notebooks, and folders now live in one place: the Library. Our biggest release ever — a unified vault with a rich text editor, ⌘K search over your decrypted names, journal-style notebooks, folders that organize your deadman switch, a rebuilt dashboard, and a mobile-first redesign. Still encrypted — at rest and in transit.

If you died tomorrow, would your family know where the will is, how to reach the people who matter, or what you'd want at the end? The "If I'm Gone" journal puts it all in one place, sealed until the moment it's needed. Here's how to build one in Killswitch, plus a real example to copy.