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About this tool
Organize emergency instructions and important records for trusted family handoff.
Digital Legacy Vault is a private worksheet for building the list your family would need if you were suddenly unreachable: each entry pairs a Record — an account, policy, document or where a key is kept — with the Instructions for what should happen to it. Entries stay in this browser's local storage and can be searched, deleted, exported as a single JSON file or imported back on another machine. It is an organiser, not a password manager: nothing is encrypted, so name where a credential lives rather than writing the credential itself.
Open Digital Legacy Vault on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Type what the entry is into the Record box — an account, policy, document or where a key is kept — and what should happen to it into the Instructions box.
Press Add record to save it to this browser's local storage; the 'Saved records (N)' heading counts them and the Search records box filters across both fields as the list grows.
Press Export JSON to download digital-legacy-vault.json as indented, readable JSON, or Import JSON to load a saved file back (it replaces every record after a confirmation).
Every record carries its own handover note, so an heir sees what to do with an account rather than only that it exists.
Export the whole list as one JSON file for offline or encrypted storage and import it later on a different device.
A single search box filters across both fields, so a forty-entry list stays usable when someone is looking for one insurer at a stressful moment.
In this browser's localStorage, under a key specific to this tool, and nowhere else — no account, no server, no sync. Clearing site data, using private browsing, or switching browsers or devices will lose the list, which is why the JSON export exists.
No. Nothing is encrypted, and localStorage is readable by anyone with access to the unlocked device. Record the location instead — "password manager, master key in the safe" or "recovery codes in the fireproof box" — and keep the actual secrets in a dedicated password manager with an emergency-access feature.
No. It is informational notes, not a will, trust, or nomination form, and it does not override an account's registered beneficiary or a platform's own legacy-contact process. Talk to a solicitor or estate professional about anything with legal or tax consequences.
Export the JSON, store it somewhere they can reach — an encrypted drive, a sealed envelope with your will, or a shared vault — and tell at least one trusted person it exists and how to open it. The export is plain indented JSON, so the list can be read in any text editor even by someone who never opens this page, and Import JSON loads the same file straight back into the tool if they do.