Julie and I have been using google docs to keep track of our information. Ninety percent of the information contained there (weighted for importance to immediate need) is account’s passwords. But there are other things in there that are more valuable but needed less often like scans of passports, legal and financial documents. When the Netflix outage happened last night she asked me if I had changed the password and could I update the accounts and pwds spreadsheet. This morning on the drive in my mind wandered over to the lazy solution to managing our data. Not only managing it for us now as in I need to log into the bank and forget the website, account and password but managing for Hannah and long term value. I know there are password managers out there or other things geared towards organizing and sharing stuff like this. Nothing that I have used yet would meet my requirements. These hazily defined concepts in my head revolve around Julie - what does she need to make it a regular part of her routine?
- Security
- Easy UI - on mobile or web platform.
- Offline application availability
- The ability to merge changes from two or more people across all platforms
- Share stuff with a limited audience
- Data Intelligence - Customized/personal reports for our dataset
- Data Intelligence II - Search for future me and Hannah and Hannah’s children.
How else will my data be useful to Hannah’s children if I do not curate and protect the important things to us now? What are these important things? Well, media (photos & movies), this blog, Julies website, our calendars (What each of us did over a lifespan; when, and where), our email accounts, our financial affairs (at some point H will need to know about this stuff but she might not know exactly what she is looking for. Then there is there is the use case of Hannah’s children, should she have them or whomever she passes the Trust on to after she is done with it. How will these people find what they need in filesystem of photos (and the iphotos database with all the image meta data), movies on youtube, database dumps and sql files and other things I can’t think of right now.
