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Digital Organization

Your credit card gets replaced, and for once you already know every account that was billing the old card.

  • The guideMonth One, as a PDF and an EPUB
  • Four areasAccounts, money, files, then devices and people
  • Three stepsInventory, edit, then store and record
Choose your license
What each license covers

Every license comes with the same files. The license says who may use them.

Personal is for your own home. Use the files for yourself and your family.

Commercial is for one facilitator, coach, or teacher who uses the files with clients, a class, or a team. Choose one seat for each person who leads.

Extended commercial lets you put the files inside something you sell, like a course, a program, or a client kit.

Buying for a whole firm, a school, or a shop? Ask for a quote on my Wholesale and licensing page.

$49

Your download link arrives by email the moment you pay. You have seven days to change your mind.

InsideMonth One
  • Your inbox
  • Your accounts
  • Subscriptions
  • Automatic payments
  • Your cards
  • Your documents
  • Your photographs
  • Your devices
  • Your contacts
  • Accounts you look after
Be honest with me

You have a rough idea of what you have and no actual list.

You could not say right now how many accounts are tied to your email. Something has been charging your card for months, and you are not sure what. Your photographs and documents are spread across more places than you can name.

You keep meaning to sort it all out in one big weekend, and that weekend has not come yet. It does not need to. One area a week is enough.

Month One of the Digital Life Management System takes your accounts, your money, your files, then your devices and the people you look after. Each area gets the same three steps, and you finish with a record you can find things in.

And you never have to do a step alone. Honest IT support is the companion to the Digital Life Management System and to Accounted For. When a step in Digital Organization needs a hand, you book thirty minutes on Google Meet and we do that step together.

One area a week

Month One, in the order that makes each week easier.

  1. Week oneYour inbox is the recovery route for so much of what you own, so it goes first.AccountsStart with your inbox

    Your email and the accounts attached to it, listed, edited, and recorded, because your email opens the door to almost everything else.

  2. Week twoYou catch everything that bills you on its own, including the things you stopped using.MoneyFind what keeps renewing

    Your bank accounts, your cards, and every subscription and automatic payment, found and written down.

  3. Week threeYou decide where each kind of file belongs, wherever it has ended up.FilesGather what is scattered

    Your documents and photographs, across every drive, phone, and cloud account, gathered into places you can name.

  4. Week fourYou finish with the devices you carry and the accounts you look after for someone else.Devices and peopleFinish with what you carry

    Your devices, your contacts, and the accounts you manage on someone else’s behalf, so nothing important lives only in your head.

By the end of the month

What is true when you finish.

  • Every account tied to your email is on one list.
  • You know what renews, what it costs, and which card it bills.
  • You cancelled what you no longer use.
  • Your documents and photographs live in places you can name.
  • Your devices are listed, with what each one holds.
  • The accounts you look after for someone else are written down.
  • You can answer which account pays the property tax without going to look.
  • Month Two has a real list to protect.

From Accounted For

Organize comes first because you cannot protect or pass on what you cannot find.

Ashley KarrAccounted For

Ashley Karr, smiling, in a sunny home office
Meet the founder

Hi, I’m Ashley.

I have worked for more than twenty years in accessibility, trust and safety, and product research and design. I helped create many of the systems our day-to-day lives depend on: banking, payments, identity, and fraud protection. One of my roles was vice president of product research at JPMorgan Chase, and I hold a master’s degree in human factors and systems engineering.

I write books, teach, and build good products. Whatever brought you here, I’m glad you came.

Ashley

Read my story
Before you buy

You have questions, and I have plain answers.

  1. Do I have to do Month One first?

    I would rather you did. Month Two protects what Month One finds, so going the other way around means protecting a list you have not made yet. You can, and it means more work.

  2. What if I only have a little time at a time?

    That works. Each week is built in parts, so you can do one part per sitting. Several short sessions count as much as one long one.

  3. What do I need before I start?

    You need nothing you do not already have: your computer, your phone, and somewhere to write things down. The Workbook is where I suggest writing them, and it is optional.

  4. How do I get the files?

    The moment you pay, an email arrives with your download link. Save the guide to your own computer and it is yours. There is no account to create and nothing to log back into. You get it as a PDF and an EPUB, so it opens on a computer, a phone, a tablet, or an e-reader.

  5. What if I need help with a step?

    Book an Honest IT support session. It is the companion to the Digital Life Management System and to Accounted For. For thirty minutes on Google Meet, you and I work through that step together, and you keep the mouse.

  6. Can I get a refund?

    Yes. Read it, try it, and if it is not what you wanted, write within seven days of buying it. A real person will get back to you soon with your refund.