Peace of mind for your digital life.
A practical guide to protecting your digital life and legacy. Clear steps, no pressure, and personal professional help available if you need it.
Three actions. Maximum impact.
If you do nothing else from this guide, do these three things. A will can say what you want, but it cannot make a platform cooperate, so the arrangements you make yourself now are what whoever deals with your affairs will actually rely on.
Set a Legacy Contact
Tell Facebook, Apple, and Google who should look after your accounts when you die. Takes a few minutes each. Most people never do it.
Secure Your Passwords
Your executor needs to know which accounts you have. A password manager with emergency access is the most reliable way to give them that list, though signing in as you is not always allowed.
Write Down Your Wishes
Decide what should happen to each account: kept as a memorial, deleted, or transferred. Write it down. Tell your executor where it is.
Not everything is equally urgent
Setting a legacy contact on Facebook takes five minutes and prevents your account being locked forever. Sorting your photos into albums, while lovely, can wait. This guide is explicit about the difference.
The priority guide ranks everything from critical (do it today) down to nice to have (do it when you have a quiet afternoon), so you can start with the actions that matter most.
See the full priority guide →What can you achieve?
Even 30 minutes makes a meaningful difference
Set legacy contacts on Facebook, Apple, and Google, so the people you choose can use each platform's own process.
Complete your account inventory and set up emergency password access, so accounts are not missed or left running.
Decide what happens to each account and write it down. Ask your solicitor to add a digital assets clause to your will.
Back up and organise your photos and documents, and write personal letters if you wish.
Everything in the guide
What to Do First
Start hereA ranked list of digital legacy actions, from critical to nice-to-have. Start here.
Why It Matters
What a few hours of planning actually achieves. Concrete outcomes, not abstract warnings.
Platform Guides
Step-by-step instructions for Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more.
Device Security
Phones, computers, encryption, two-factor authentication, and what your executor needs to access your devices.
Files & Backups
Everyday habits for backing up, organising, and naming your files and photos so nothing gets lost or falls into the wrong hands.
Irish Law
What Irish law currently says about digital assets, and the gaps you need to plan around.
Stories
What happens when planning is left too late, and what good planning looks like in practice.
Action Checklist
A printable, tick-off checklist of everything covered in this guide.
Glossary
Plain English definitions for digital legacy terms: legacy contact, digital executor, intestacy, and more.
Want personal guidance?
This guide helps you get started. If you want someone to walk through your digital estate with you (reviewing every account, building a full register, and advising your executor), Liscairn offers a professional consultancy service.
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