Write the life down. You decide who reads it.

Retirement is when the writing-it-down finally happens. Some people set out to write a memoir for the grandchildren; more simply start recording — the town as it was, the work, the marriage, the war their parents wouldn't discuss, the things nobody else remembers anymore. Once begun, it tends to pour.

The honest version needs privacy while it's being written. A life told truthfully includes chapters that need drafting before you decide who, if anyone, reads them: the first marriage, the estrangement, the regret. Written straight into a shared family document, these chapters come out managed. Written sealed, they come out true — and what to do with the truth becomes a decision you make deliberately, later, chapter by chapter.

The Sealed Journal is built for exactly that shape: everything encrypted and private by default, with deliberate export when — and only when — you choose to hand something on. No subscription to outlive, no company between your record and your family. One payment; the file is yours for the duration, and the duration is the point.