Digital Estate Planning Checklist: 6 Things People Always Forget
Traditional estate planning covers the house, the car, the bank account. But more and more of what we own — and care about — now lives online. Here's the digital side most checklists miss, in six parts.
1. Money & finance (beyond the main bank)
Brokerage apps (Robinhood, Fidelity), PayPal, Cash App, Venmo balances, and crypto. These are easy to overlook and easy to lose. List each one and where it lives.
2. Photos & memories
The thing families say they'd want most — and the hardest to reach. iCloud, Google Photos, Dropbox. Set up legacy contacts where you can, and note where everything is.
3. Streaming, subscriptions & media
Netflix, Spotify, Audible, and the dozen subscriptions quietly charging the card. Someone needs to know what to cancel — and what to keep (that audiobook library has value).
4. Games, rewards & miles
Steam libraries, sportsbook balances, airline miles, credit-card points. Real value, almost always forgotten. Some transfer to family; some expire. Worth documenting.
5. Social & creator accounts
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, a Substack, a following you built. These can be memorialized, transferred, or monetized — but only if someone knows they exist and what you'd want.
6. Domains & things you made
Websites, domains, your writing, music, designs. Intellectual property that can keep earning — or quietly disappear at renewal time.
The one rule that ties it together
Your family can only act on what they can find. The most valuable hour you'll spend is building a clear inventory — what you have, where it lives, who gets it — and keeping it with your will. No passwords; just a map. That's exactly what Postlude is for: a guided way to cover all six categories and hand the result to the people you choose.
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