Plan what happens to my online accounts and photos after I die
A digital legacy plan listing your accounts, what you want done with each, and how a trusted person can carry out your wishes.
The prompt
Help me make a plan for my digital life after I die or if I can't manage it myself.
Types of accounts I have: [e.g. email, phone, photos in the cloud, social media, online banking, shopping, subscriptions, a blog or website - no passwords]
Devices: [phone, computer, tablet]
Things that matter most: [e.g. family photos, writing, contacts, anything with money attached]
Who I trust to handle it: [NAME OR RELATIONSHIP]
Existing plans: [e.g. a will, an executor, a power of attorney, nothing yet]
My location: [COUNTRY/STATE]
Give me:
1. An inventory template: Account | Type | What I want done (keep, download and close, memorialize, delete) | Who should handle it | Where access info is kept.
2. A short explanation of the legacy or inactive account tools that major phone, email, and social media platforms offer, and what each allows a trusted person to do. Mark exact feature names and steps [CHECK IN THE APP].
3. Safe ways to make access possible without writing passwords in a will or sharing them now: a password manager's emergency access feature, a sealed document kept with important papers, and recovery contacts.
4. Steps for preserving photos and important files so they're not lost when accounts close.
5. A list of things that cost money (subscriptions, domain names) so they can be stopped.
6. Talking points for telling my trusted person about the plan.
This is general information, not legal advice. Suggest I check with an estate planning lawyer about how digital assets are handled in my will where I live.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- phone, computer, tablet
- NAME OR RELATIONSHIP
- e.g. a will, an executor, a power of attorney, nothing yet
- COUNTRY/STATE
- CHECK IN THE APP
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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