Digital · 2026-01-27 · 6 minutes
Keeping the password list separate
Passwords do not belong in a note that every invited reader can see. You share the life file with people you invite. A password in that text is immediately a password of that circle. The sealed list therefore lives outside the shared file. That can be a closed envelope with a person, a safe, or a password manager outside Ervazo. Choose one place and stick to it. Two lists that diverge are later both unreliable. The list outside the file may contain the keys. The file itself may not. Also no screenshot, no photo of a slip of paper and no string of characters hidden in a sentence that looks like a memory.
In the file there is only that the sealed list exists and who may open it. A name and a telephone number. A reader needs nothing more to call that person. Do not write to whom that person must then give all the keys. That is an arrangement between you and that person, outside the shared circle. If it is about authority after death, that question belongs in a will, not in this field. The file appoints no executor here. It says that this person has the list. Whether that person opens it follows the arrangement you made during life. Ervazo is not a safe for those keys and does not become one because you paste them into a field.
If the person who keeps the list changes, you change the sentence on the same day and you ask for the old list back if that is possible. An envelope that stays with the previous person remains a key. DigiD and other government accounts are personal. Do not put them in the shared file, and do not use the file to encourage someone to log in to the government as you. If there is no sealed list, write that, so that a reader does not look for an envelope that is not there. A missing list is a fact. An invented keeper is a mistake. One sentence with a name is enough if the list does exist.
A life file is a note for later. It is not a will, not a medical instruction and not advice. The sentence about the sealed list points to a person who may open an envelope or a manager. It does not appoint that person as heir or executor. That appointment belongs in a notarial will. A codicil has its own, strictly handwritten form and is not this sentence. Ervazo stores the sentence and does not send it to a notary or a doctor. The keys stay outside the shared file. Whoever thinks they need them calls the person you have named, and not a field that ought to stay empty.