The Family Emergency Binder: everything your family would need to know, in one place

If you were in the hospital tonight, would they know where everything is?

The fill-in binder that gets the accounts, insurance, bills, digital life and wishes out of your head and into one place. In about 90 minutes.

Instant PDF download · Fill it in on your phone, tablet or computer, or print it

Calm pages, ready for your answers.

  • The Family Emergency Binder cover with sample pages

    The Family Emergency Binder

    52 pages in 10 sections. Just fill in the blanks.

  • The binder and the Letters & Calls Kit

    The Complete Set

    The binder plus the Letters & Calls Kit: what to know, and the words to say it.

  • The binder being filled in on a phone

    Fill it in anywhere

    Type on your phone, tablet or computer, or print it and use a pen.

In most homes, one person knows where everything is.

Which bank. Which insurer. Which login opens the photos. Where the will actually lives. It's all in one head, and nobody else has a copy.

This binder is the copy. Fifty-two calm pages you fill in once, at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, so the people you love never have to guess.

Start this weekend
Kids guardian guide pages with sample details for a child

Ten clear sections. Nothing to design, just fill in the blanks.

52 pages, US Letter and A4, fillable or printable, yours to update forever.

Six pages from the binder
  • Start here

    How to fill it in, what not to write, and a wallet card.

  • Family snapshot

    Your household, emergency contacts, and where every document is.

  • Money map

    Accounts, insurance, debts and bills, without full numbers.

  • Digital life

    How your family gets into phones, email and photos.

  • Home, cars & pets

    Shut-offs, keys, vehicles, and who looks after the pets.

  • Legal checklist

    What's official, what's missing, and where it's kept.

  • Kids' guardian guide

    Routines, health, school, and the things only you know.

  • Wishes & letters

    Your wishes, and the words you want them to have.

  • The first 72 hours

    A calm, step-by-step guide written for your family.

  • Keeping it current

    A 20-minute yearly review.

A map, not a vault.

You never write down a password, a PIN or a full account number. You write where things are, and who can get in. Safer to keep, easy to share with the people you trust.

  • No passwords or PINs
  • No full account or card numbers
  • Just where things are, and who to call
Two pages of the guide to the first 72 hours

Start with the binder. Add the words.

Get the binder for everything they'd need to know, and the Letters & Calls Kit for everything they'd need to say.

The ten sections of the binder

Done in an evening. Thank yourself for years.

  1. Download it instantly

    Your PDF arrives right after checkout.

  2. Fill it in, about 90 minutes

    Type on any device, or print it and use a pen.

  3. Tell them where it lives

    Share it with the person who would need it.