Where should this actually live?
“Write everything down,” they said.
They never said where.
Every expert tells you to get your family’s important information in one place. Almost none of them tell you the part that matters most — where to keep it so the right people can find it, and no one else ever can.
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You set it up on a computer — Mac or Windows, Chrome or Edge. Not on the phone you’re holding. The key lives in a drawer. The two cards go to two people.
Or look inside a finished kit first — nothing to install, nothing saved.
Two families did everything they were told.
One couple wrote it all down in a notebook in the desk drawer — exactly what you’re supposed to do. A home care nurse found it. Accounts drained, identity stolen.
Another used an online system on a company’s computers. Then came the email: “we are writing to inform you of a security incident.”
Writing it down is the easy half. The hard question is where it can be both found by your family and safe from everyone else.
Three ways to keep it. One is built for both.
Found by the right people. Safe from everyone else. Only one option does both.
The Notebook
Handwritten pages in a drawer or binder
- There's no code on a notebook — anyone who opens the drawer can read it
- Kept current, it fills with cross-outs and arrows: is that a 0, an O, a 1, an l?
- Ink fades — and a spilled glass has no undo
- It ends up feeling like a broken promise
The Online Vault
An encrypted account on a company's servers — usually a yearly subscription
- Encrypted, but still living on a company's computers
- One “security incident” email and it's exposed
- Stops working the month you stop paying — or the company closes
- Your family may wait out an access request and countdown to get in
The Locked Drive
Left In Peace — a USB drive with a built-in lock
- Only the people you choose can ever read it
- Lost or stolen, it's still a locked drive — not open pages
- Never touches the internet — nothing to breach
- Two trusted people, together, to open it
The notebook is open to everyone in your home. The online vault trusts a company to outsmart every thief on earth — and to still be in business, still be paid, and let your family in without a waiting period on the day they need it. The locked drive lets your family in the moment they hold their two codes — and keeps everyone else out, without ever going online.
Remember diaries?
The little brass lock. The tiny key. Whether you wrote one or snuck a peek at your sister’s, you learned early that a paper book can’t keep a secret. It couldn’t then, and it still can’t now.
Today the secrets are bigger: your accounts and passwords, your most important information, your instructions for the people you love, and your wishes and intentions. Kept in a notebook or a folder, they’re the same diary — and this time there isn’t even a lock.
Left In Peace still comes with a key. Behind this one, everything is protected by your private code, kept off the internet, and set up so only those you choose can open it.
“Locked” isn’t a figure of speech.
It never touches the internet. Not another vault in the cloud — there is no cloud. Your plan lives on a key in your hand: nothing uploaded, nothing synced, no copy on any company’s computers. The “security incident” emails you read about can’t happen here. And while other services promise they can’t read your information — we never have it.
It’s scrambled until the right code opens it. Your information is encrypted on the drive, behind a private code you choose — and you decide how long that code is. Nothing about it depends on us staying in business.
It takes two trusted people, together. Your daughter alone can’t. Your attorney alone can’t. Together, when it matters, they can — so no single person ever holds all the power.
The pages you hand around — the family packet, the who-to-call sheets — contain no passwords and no account numbers. The two code cards are the exception — they hold the unlock codes, and the kit says to guard them the way you'd guard the combination to a safe. And every kit includes a plain-English Cybersecurity Guide that explains exactly how the lock works.
The kit: a real engraved key that lives on the keyring — and holds everything.
From someone who chose the locked drive
“Left In Peace is exactly what I needed to get all my information in one place for my family. It is easy to navigate and completely secure. The information stored can be easily amended and new info added as necessary. I am very thankful to have this tool in my filing cabinet.”
Try it for 30 days. If it isn’t right, send it back.
Full refund, no questions, no forms. And if you get stuck during setup, you email a real person — me. I built Left In Peace after spending fourteen months closing an estate that came with no map. Your family deserves better, and so does mine.
— Greg White, Founder
Everything they’ll need, right where you left it.
Your family deserves more than a “something.” They deserve the version that’s complete, locked, and there when they reach for it.