Why I Built Notenz

I built Notenz during a deeply personal moment, one I did not choose.

After a serious health problem, I found myself doing something I had never done before: putting my life in order. Not just in a legal sense, though that was part of it. In a practical sense. Sitting down and asking myself, honestly: if I were gone tomorrow, would the people I love know where everything is?

The question felt simple. The answer was not.

My digital keys. Passwords to accounts we rely on every month. Investment details. Pension documents. Insurance policies. Government IDs stored across various devices. The logins to services that pay our bills automatically. The things that quietly hold a life together without anyone noticing, until suddenly someone has to notice, and has no idea where to begin.

The truth hit me hard: my family would have no idea what existed, where to look, or how to access any of it. And I realised this was not just a gap in my planning. It is a gap almost no one fills, because it is uncomfortable to think about and easy to postpone.

What a will does not solve

There is a common assumption that a will handles this. It does not, not really. A will handles the legal transfer of assets. It does not tell your family the password to your email, where your pension is held, which accounts have automatic payments, or how to get into your phone. The legal process is slow, public, and full of paperwork. The everyday problem of getting into the digital parts of a life is a completely different challenge, and almost nobody has solved it for the people they love.

I looked for something that could help. Something that would quietly watch in the background and, if I were no longer able to respond, make sure the right information reached the right people at the right time.

I could not find it. So I built Notenz.

How Notenz works

You store what you want your family to receive: passwords, documents, instructions, anything important. Notenz checks in with you regularly, once a week by default. If you stop responding across all your channels, email, Telegram, and SMS, it waits through a grace period and then delivers everything to the people you named.

No one needs to make a request. No one needs to know anything in advance. It works quietly in the background, until the moment it is needed.

There is a free account that takes five minutes to set up. Pro adds unlimited items and multiple recipients. Guardian adds a sealed layer that only your chosen person can open, using a separate password you share with them in advance.

Why I am sharing this

I built this because I needed it. I suspect other people do too, not necessarily because of a health scare, but because the question underneath it is one we all carry: if something happened to me, would the people I love know where to begin?

If the answer is no, it is free to start.