An archive, made with care.
A private digital archive for the people you love.
A will passes on what you owned. It cannot pass on who you were. Efterlad is built for the rest, the voice and the stories and the small advice, and for making sure it reaches the people you chose.
The longer version is on the home page and in the journal. What follows is how it actually works.
How it works.
- I.
Your archive, your way.
Write letters in a quiet, distraction-free editor. Upload photographs, alone or in batches. Upload short voice messages or short films. Give each one a title, and a note about when, or who, or why it mattered. Save when you are ready. Edit any time before delivery.
- II.
The people who matter.
Add your recipients — name, email, optionally a phone number, optionally a postal address. You decide which memories go to whom. A letter for your daughter. An album for your mother. A film for your closest friends. A memory can be addressed to one person or to many.
- III.
Held in trust.
Your files live on European infrastructure, encrypted at rest, isolated to your account. Every day, an encrypted backup is copied to a physically separate data centre in another EU region. Nothing is shipped outside the EU. Nothing is shown to anyone but you, until the moment we are asked to deliver it.
And because a digital archive is only as durable as the institution that holds it, we partnered with Aumento Law Firm in Denmark as our legal trustee. Aumento holds emergency credentials. If anything ever prevents us from operating, they take over the running of the platform so your archive is still safely delivered when the time comes. The full structure is on our Promise page.
- IV.
Once a year, we ask.
All we ask is that you sign in at least once a year, so we know you are still here. We send a quiet email and an SMS to remind you. If you are travelling, or stepping away for longer, you can pause the check-ins from your dashboard for two, three, or five years at a time, so the archive sleeps while you are away.
- V.
If we hear nothing.
If you do not respond, we write again. Three more reminders over the next three months, each one calm and dated, by email and SMS together. The messages clearly say what happens next and how to stop it. They are not panicked, and they do not pressure you. They simply remind you that we are waiting.
- VI.
We deliver, patiently.
On the ninety-first day of silence, the archive opens. Every recipient you named receives an email with their own private link to what you left for them. To open it they confirm the email address it was sent to, so a forwarded link or a stolen screenshot will not show a stranger anything.
If a recipient does not open the link on the first try, we keep writing. Email weekly for the next twelve weeks, then bi-weekly for six more. If a phone number is on file, we send SMS reminders alongside the emails. Up to six months of attempts in total. The whole point of the platform is that the letters arrive, so we treat the delivery the same way we treat the keeping.
I built it because I needed it. Maybe you do too.
A private archive. Not a hard drive.
One yearly plan keeps your letters, photographs, voice notes, and films ready for the people you love.
Questions, thoughts, or a story you would like to tell. A person reads every message, usually within a day.