Where should I keep it?

The guide spends real time on this, because it is the biggest decision you will make about the record. A home safe, a safe deposit box, and a trusted person’s house each have trade-offs, and the right choice depends on who would need it and how fast.

What if the record is lost or taken?

That is the risk you are choosing, and it is smaller than keeping these details online. The guide shows how to make the record less useful to a stranger while keeping it usable for the person you chose, and what to do if it is ever lost.

How often do I update it?

Once a year and whenever you change your password manager or your phone. The record has a review log, so you can see when you last looked at it.

Why not keep it in a file?

Some of what it holds would be very valuable to a stranger. On a screen it can be phished, synced, backed up somewhere you forgot, or emailed by mistake. On paper, in one place, it cannot.

How do I get the files?

The moment you pay, an email arrives with your download link. Save the files to your own computer and print the record. There is no account to create and nothing to log back into.

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.

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.

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The Emergency Information Record

Your recovery codes stop living in your camera roll and go into one physical place you chose.

The RecordA printable PDF you fill in with a pen, plus an EPUB
The guideWhat goes in it, where to keep it, and who to tell

Choose your licensePersonalUse it at home for yourself and your family.$29CommercialOne facilitator, coach, or teacher uses it with clients, a class, or a team.$79 a seatExtended commercialPut it inside something you sell, like a course, a program, or a client kit.$299

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.

$29

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

Insidethe Record

Where it is kept
Who can reach it
Identity numbers
Your password manager
Recovery codes
Keys
Safes
A plan if it is lost
A review log

Just between us

The keys to everything are written down in the wrong places.

Your recovery codes are in a screenshot, or you are not sure where they ended up. Your Social Security number sits in a file on your computer. You use a password manager, and you have not set up how access would pass to someone if something happened to you.

Anything on a screen can be phished, synced, screenshotted, or emailed by accident. Paper can be none of those.

The Emergency Information Record is the record you print and fill in by hand. It holds the few things that should never live online, kept in one physical place, so the person you chose can act for you if they ever need to.

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 the Record needs a hand, you book thirty minutes on Google Meet and we do that step together.

Page by page

What unlocks your life, kept off every screen.

Start hereWhere the record is kept, who can reach it, and when.Where it is kept and who knowsPrintable PDF
I recommend starting here, because the place you choose decides how useful the record is on a bad day.
The ones that never changeNumbers like these do not rotate, which is why they do not belong in a file.Your identity numbersPrintable PDF
Your identity numbers, written once, in your own handwriting, in one place.
The master keysThe master password and the codes that get you back in.Password manager and recovery codesPrintable PDF
The one password that opens every account at once, and the recovery codes for the accounts that matter most.
The physical thingsThe accounts that need naming here, plus the keys and safes.Accounts, keys, and safesPrintable PDF
The few accounts that belong on paper and where the keys and combinations are.
A plan for the planWhat to do, in order, written before you need it.If the record is lostPrintable PDF
Steps to follow if the record is ever lost, with a review log and room for notes.

Once it is in the safe

What is true when you finish.

Your recovery codes are out of your camera roll.
What unlocks your life is written in your own handwriting.
The record lives in one physical place you chose on purpose.
The person you chose knows where that place is.
Access to your password manager can pass to them if it ever needs to.
You have a plan for the day the record goes missing.
A review log shows when you last looked.
On every ordinary day, you do not have to think about any of it.

From Accounted For

Your printed emergency record holds the highly sensitive things, on paper.

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.

Where should I keep it?
The guide spends real time on this, because it is the biggest decision you will make about the record. A home safe, a safe deposit box, and a trusted person’s house each have trade-offs, and the right choice depends on who would need it and how fast.
What if the record is lost or taken?
That is the risk you are choosing, and it is smaller than keeping these details online. The guide shows how to make the record less useful to a stranger while keeping it usable for the person you chose, and what to do if it is ever lost.
How often do I update it?
Once a year and whenever you change your password manager or your phone. The record has a review log, so you can see when you last looked at it.
Why not keep it in a file?
Some of what it holds would be very valuable to a stranger. On a screen it can be phished, synced, backed up somewhere you forgot, or emailed by mistake. On paper, in one place, it cannot.
How do I get the files?
The moment you pay, an email arrives with your download link. Save the files to your own computer and print the record. There is no account to create and nothing to log back into.
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.
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.