The Handover File
One person in every household knows where everything is. This is the Notion file for the day that person is not available — built so someone who is not you can pick it up and act.
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What’s inside
- Seven connected databases: Accounts & Policies, Documents, People, Digital Access, First 14 Days, Review Log, and The File.
- Twelve views, including The Gaps Worst First, What Stops If You Cancel This, Who Could Actually Get In, and a credential-free Print For The Fireproof Box view.
- The first fourteen days already written, in order — including the two or three things to deliberately not do yet, each with one line saying why.
- The which-card-pays-for-what chain, so cancelling a card in week two does not lapse the home insurance in week six.
- Four written guides and a worked household already filled in, reading forty percent ready on purpose.
Who this is for
It stores no passwords, ever. It records where a credential lives and who can reach it — never the credential itself — which is what makes the file safe to share with your executor and safe to print for the fireproof box.
It is built in three sittings, not one afternoon, because the most common way a file like this dies is being started on a Sunday with the intention of finishing. Then thirty minutes twice a year, with a review log that shows the gap number falling.