Journal · Legacy Delivery
Don't Just Keep a Journal. Leave One.
Most journal apps are great at getting you to write and terrible at making sure anyone ever reads it. Killswitch is a journal with a forwarding address: write daily entries with photos, audio, and video, and if you ever stop checking in, the whole journal is delivered to the people you chose.
What is a legacy journal?
A legacy journal is a journal written to eventually be read by someone else — your kids, your spouse, whoever you choose. The problem with an ordinary journal, paper or app, is that it has no forwarding address. Notebooks get thrown out. Journal apps get deleted with an old phone. A password nobody wrote down locks a family out of years of entries forever.
Killswitch solves the delivery problem, not the writing problem. You keep writing the way you already would — a journal for my kids, a running family history, a daily log for yourself. In the background, a gentle check-in schedule quietly confirms you're still around. Miss it for long enough, after real reminders and real grace periods, and the journal you've been building gets delivered automatically.
How the delivered journal works
- Write. Rich entries with photos, audio, and video, from your phone, tablet, or computer — whichever is closest when something is worth writing down. Keep as many journals as you want under one account.
- Live your life. We check in with you on a cadence you set — daily, weekly, whatever fits. Of course a journal app notices when you stop showing up; that's the whole point. Miss a check-in and you get reminders first, with plenty of room for vacations, sickness, or a dead phone before anything happens.
- It gets delivered. If you stop checking in, the people you chose receive a beautiful reading experience for your journal — searchable, with your photos and recordings playable inline, and downloadable so they can keep it forever, not just borrow it for as long as an app stays installed.
A real daily journal
Today's entry picks up right where you left off, a gentle streak marker shows up once you've built one, and ← / → navigation moves you through past entries — a journal you'll actually keep coming back to.
Photos, audio, and video
An entry isn't just text. Drop in photos, record a voice memo, or attach a video message — right inline, in the same entry, from any device.
Encrypted and private by default
Your journal is encrypted at rest and in transit while you're writing it. Nobody — including us — reads your entries while you're still checking in.
Delivered exactly how you wrote it
Recipients get a real reading experience, not a data dump: they can search your entries, browse them in order, and download the journal — photos and recordings included — to keep for good.
Why not just use a journal app?
You can, and plenty of journal apps are genuinely good at getting you to write. What none of them can promise is that anyone will ever read it. A journal app helps you write; it has no mechanism for noticing you've stopped, and no way to hand what you wrote to anyone if you can't do it yourself. If something happens to you, your journal doesn't know — it just sits there, on a locked phone, until someone finds a way in, or doesn't.
Killswitch's journal runs on the same dead man's switch that delivers our documents and passwords: a check-in schedule you control, real reminders before anything fires, and automatic delivery to the people you chose only if you stop checking in.
See how the underlying deadman switch works →Write for them. We'll deliver it.
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