1. You put away what matters
Install SafeTale on your PC, create your account, and fill your vault.
Put in what the people close to you would look for if they had to look: your account passwords, your phone's PIN, its PUK code, the unlock pattern — which you draw with your mouse, just as you draw it with your finger. And anything you want to write down: where the paperwork is, who to call, what you would have wanted to say.
Everything is encrypted on your computer before it is sent. You can come back and change, add or delete whenever you like: this is not an envelope you seal, it is a drawer you open.
2. You name one person
One single person. The one you would call at three in the morning.
You enter their e-mail address, and you choose a delay: thirty days, six months, two years. You decide, from two days upwards.
They then receive a courtesy message, which tells them one thing only: someone trusts them. It does not say what the vault holds. It even states in as many words that nothing is expected of them.
They have received nothing else. No access, no data, no password. For as long as you are here, the door stays shut for them as it does for everyone.
3. You check in
On your dashboard, a countdown shows the time remaining:
Your trusted contact [email protected] will receive emergency access to your SafeTale in: 1 month and 16 days
Just below it, one button: "Push access back by 30 days." You click, the countdown starts over. That is all you have to do.
It's an alarm clock in reverse: as long as you keep pushing it back, it never rings.
And the day you can no longer push it back, it rings once, for one person. Your trusted contact receives an e-mail with a backup password and a link to install SafeTale. They open your vault, read-only, and find what you left there for them.
