VAULT has the broadest audience of any module in the suite — every household needs this regardless of preparedness level. Document where every critical piece of paper lives, whether a certified copy exists, and where it is stored. In a house fire, flood, or forced evacuation, knowing exactly what you have and where it is saves everything. Use Priority Tier 1 for documents that cannot be replaced without significant hardship (passports, deeds, wills). Update annually.
In a crisis, families often cannot access funds because account information is only in one person's head. Document every account with institution name, account type, approximate balance category, how to access it, and who else has access authority. Do not store full account numbers or passwords here — use descriptive references that only your family would understand, and store full credentials separately in physical encrypted form.
When you are evacuated to a shelter or receiving care from someone who doesn't know you, your medical history travels with you or it doesn't exist. Document conditions, medications with dosages, allergies with reaction types, and how to reach your regular providers. Your records function as the written history your medic needs when you are unable to speak for yourself.
This is the hardest module to fill out and the most important. Write specific instructions for your family: where the document registry is, who the attorney is and how to reach them, what accounts exist and how to access emergency funds, where the emergency supplies are, who to call in the preparedness network, and what the bug-out plan is. Update this letter annually. Print it, sign it, and put it somewhere your family knows to look.
The wallet card is a single laminated card that goes in every adult family member's wallet. It contains enough information to access emergency resources and reach the right people — without containing sensitive data that would be dangerous if the wallet were lost. Use reference codes and initials rather than full account numbers or addresses.
Digital accounts are entirely undocumented in most preparedness plans, yet they hold financial assets, critical communications, and irreplaceable files. This module records that accounts exist and how to reach them — not the passwords themselves. Use reference codes, not credentials. Note where actual passwords are stored (e.g., "LastPass vault, entry labeled Home Email"). Document every account a family member would need to access in your absence. Review annually and after any major account change.
Every module in order — documents, financial, medical, family instructions, quick reference, and digital assets — as one print-ready document, each section on its own page for three-ring tabs. A cut-out wallet card prints on the last page.
Complete inventory of all registered documents, sorted by category with location and copy status.
Formatted letter with emergency instructions — sign and file.
One card per family member with conditions, meds, and allergies.
Laminated wallet card with emergency contacts and references.
VAULT answers one question your family will face in the worst moment of their lives: what critical documents and accounts exist, and where do we find them? In a house fire, flood, evacuation, hospitalization, or death, the knowledge locked in one person's head becomes worthless to everyone else. VAULT writes that knowledge down.
The guiding doctrine is pointer, not payload. VAULT records where the original deed is, where the password is stored, and who has access — not the document itself and not the password. This keeps the file safe to print, carry, and hand to family without exposing the very things you are protecting.
The status pips on each card are a quick completeness check: ORG (original location logged), CERT (certified copy exists), DIG (digital copy exists), ATT (reference photo attached).
The Document Registry lets you attach reference photos to an entry — a shot of the safe where the original lives, the document itself for identification, or an insurance card front. Photos are auto-compressed and stored inside the VAULT file so they travel with your backup.
To attach: open or edit a document, scroll to Reference Photos, click + ADD, and pick an image or PDF. Click a thumbnail to view it full size; the × removes it.
The Generate Docs screen turns your entries into print-ready references. Print Full Binder is the main one: it prints every module in order — documents, financial, medical, family instructions, quick reference, and digital assets — as a single document, with each section on its own page for three-ring tabs and a cut-out wallet card on the last page. Output 1 — Document Registry Summary prints just the document inventory when that is all you need.
Print it, punch it, and file it in your preparedness binder. Re-generate and reprint after any major change, and at minimum once a year.
All VAULT data lives in this browser, encrypted (AES-GCM 256) under the key ao_vault_enc_v1. It never leaves your device. That also means clearing browser data, or switching devices, will lose it unless you back up.
watchman_vault_encrypted_backup.json, the sealed vault exactly as stored. Do this regularly; the file is safe anywhere because it opens only with your passwords. EXPORT PLAINTEXT exists for migration — treat that file as fully sensitive."Knowledge creates the obligation to warn." VAULT is how you warn the people who will need this when you cannot tell them yourself.
VAULT ships with a demo sandbox — a separate copy pre-loaded with a completed document registry for a fictional family (the Reeds): vital documents, financial accounts, insurance, property, and a quick-reference card, all inside a working encrypted vault.