The digital continuity guide

What digital continuity covers

A digital life is far more than a list of passwords. It is accounts (email, banking, social, subscriptions), documents (contracts, deeds, policies, statements), memories (photos, videos, recordings) and instructions (what you want to happen to all of it).

Digital continuity connects those four layers and names the people who may act. Without that connection, everything still exists but nobody can find it.

• Accounts: what receives your email, what charges your card, what stores your files.
• Documents: what a relative will have to show a bank, an insurer or a notary.
• Memories: the files with no administrative value and no backup copy.
• Instructions: what you want kept, passed on, or closed.

Incapacity and death are not the same problem

During incapacity the problem is immediate and practical: bills keep being charged, an inbox needs to be read, a document has to be found today. The person is alive and the accounts are still theirs.

After a death the rules change: an estate opens, platforms apply their own procedures, and official paperwork is requested. Both situations need the same information, but not the same permissions.

Trusted people: access is not ownership

Naming a trusted person in a tool like Solexi, or inside an online service, transfers no ownership and replaces neither a power of attorney nor a will. It only allows that person to see certain information.

A practical approach is to split the levels: one person for administrative documents, another for memories, and a separate legal designation made with a notary or lawyer for anything with legal effect.

Security, privacy and exportability

A continuity plan holds sensitive material by definition. It should never live in a plaintext password file, an email sent to yourself, or a shared note.

Three criteria tell you whether a continuity tool is sound: encryption in transit and at rest, explicit per-person access control, and the ability to export everything at any time. Without export, your continuity depends on the survival of the tool.

Working with estate professionals

A notary or lawyer drafts the documents; an executor carries them out. Neither can guess that a photo account, a subscription or a scanned folder exists.

An up-to-date digital inventory is therefore complementary to legal work: it supplies the raw material, not the legal force. Decisions with legal effect stay in the official documents.

Starting checklist

One hour covers the essentials. The goal is not completeness — it is removing the dead ends.

• List the five accounts whose loss would hurt the most.
• Turn on the official legacy tools where the platform offers one.
• Gather the documents a relative would have to produce.
• Write your intention for each account: keep, pass on, close.
• Name who may see what, and tell them.
• Set a yearly review.

What exists in Solexi today

Available today

• Document vault with role-based access
• Memory space for photos, videos, recordings and stories
• Trusted-person designation with what each of them can see
• A place to record your wishes and instructions
• Export of your content

Planned / in development

• Guided assistance for building an online account inventory
• Periodic review reminders for your continuity plan

Pricing, in plain words

• 14 days free, 1 GB included during the trial
• Then CAD $199, one time only
• Lifetime access, 10 GB included
• No monthly subscription, no renewal

Frequently asked questions

What is digital continuity?

It is the arrangement that lets designated relatives find and use someone’s essential accounts, documents and memories when that person can no longer manage them, through incapacity or after death.

Is it the same as a digital will?

No. A will expresses wishes within a legal framework. Digital continuity is practical organization: it says where things are and who may reach them, without carrying legal force on its own.

Should I give someone my passwords?

No. Credentials belong in a password manager with its own emergency access. What your family needs is the list of accounts that matter and your instructions for each.

Where should I start if this feels too long?

Start with the main email address: it can reset almost every other login. Then add the accounts that charge money and the ones holding photos with no local copy.