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The person named in your will cannot log into Gmail by showing a death certificate. Here is why the court job and the login job are different, and how to name both without creating a fight.

Someone you love set a switch. The email just landed. Here is the first 72 hours: what to open, what not to touch, and what can wait.

A setting inside Apple or Google can outrank your will. Here's the actual hierarchy, the Keychain hole, and how to make the settings and the documents say the same names.

Open-when letters only work if they arrive. How to write letters for an 18th birthday, a wedding day, or a hard season, and make sure they're actually delivered.

Estate plans decay from the day you make them. Here's a catalog of what silently breaks, plus a quarterly and annual maintenance schedule to keep yours alive.

A legacy journal is written for someone, not just about yourself. Here's how to start one, keep it going, and make sure your family actually receives it.

A death binder is one place for the documents, passwords, and wishes your family needs if you die or are incapacitated. Paper binders get lost, go stale, and cannot deliver themselves. Digitize the binder, keep it current, and attach it to a deadman switch so delivery happens when check-ins stop. Start free at kinswitch.app/register.

A walk through the exact email your people receive when your switch fires, the subject line, your letter, their documents, and how to preview it yourself today.

KinSwitch launched as a zero-knowledge product and deliberately moved away from that model in 2026. Zero-knowledge conflicted with reliable delivery to beneficiaries and made a forgotten password permanent data loss. KinSwitch now encrypts everything, with keys held server-side.

Documents, notes, recordings, notebooks, and folders now live in one place: the Library. Our biggest release ever, a unified vault with a rich text editor, ⌘K search over your decrypted names, journal-style notebooks, folders that organize your deadman switch, a rebuilt dashboard, and a mobile-first redesign. Still encrypted, at rest and in transit.