Estate ready

Where everything is, and what you want to happen to it. Mostly a view over what the other apps already know, rather than a fifth pile of data to keep up to date.

What it does today

• One overview assembled out of the other apps: the people from Home, the belongings from Vault, and the commitments that carry on from Money. Anything not switched on says so rather than showing a zero that reads like an empty house.
• The institutions: which bank, which insurer, roughly how much, and which drawer the paperwork is actually in.
• No account numbers and no passwords, anywhere, by design. It keeps the last four characters and nothing more, because a bank will not act on a number from an executor anyway, and the version of this document with full numbers in it is the most dangerous file in the house.
• Who to call first, with what they do: the executor, the attorney, the accountant. Somebody already recorded in Home stays the same person rather than becoming a second copy.
• Wishes in your own words, one topic at a time, and the app tells you which topics you have written nothing against yet. An unanswered question is not a blank field, it is an argument at the worst possible time.
• A printable handover sheet to leave with the will, which deliberately carries no account numbers, so a copy of it in a drawer is useful rather than dangerous.

Why it is built this way

This is the app where having the others stops being a convenience and starts being the point: one page holding the people, the belongings, the commitments, the institutions and the wishes, which is a genuinely hard thing to assemble out of five separate subscriptions that have never heard of each other. It also handles the logistics and stops there. The remembering belongs somewhere built for it.