Peace of Mind in Your Pocket
Evacuating for a wildfire? Power shutoff? Rushing to the ER?
Emergencies don't wait for you to find the right paperwork. Springbook keeps everything your family needs in one set of digital files, saved to your computer. Add a kit, and they’re printed in a binder and backed up on two thumb drives, ready to grab for life’s unexpected events.
When you have minutes, not hours
In an evacuation, you may have only minutes and the one car officials recommend you take. That car has to hold your people, your pets, precious irreplacables (like photos, the outfit your daughter wore home from the hospital, your grandfather’s guitar) and your go-bags. There's no room for file boxes and piles of paper.
A Springbook thumb drive fits in your pocket. Your Binder Kit fits under your arm. Everything your family could need to restart, rebuild, or step in for you comes with you.
“Fireproof” isn’t a promise
A home safe and fireproof document holders can be useful. They just can’t be the whole plan.
In the California Tubbs Fire in 2017, my mother-in-law lost her home and everything in it. She had a fire-rated safe, and unfortunately it didn't matter. Everything inside turned to ash except a few gold coins.
After getting a toothbrush, something to sleep in, and a change of clothes, one of the first things our family did was start a binder to rebuild her paperwork life, one account and one document at a time—proof of her address, the home insurance policy, the deed, her Social Security card, her birth certificate, passport … all of it. That binder became an important seed in the evolution of Springbook.
Four copies, four places
What being truly prepared looks like:
Your binder: printed and ready to grab.
Thumb drive #1: at home, with your go-bag.
Thumb drive #2: somewhere else, like a safe deposit box or with someone you trust.
Backed up online: If you choose, select Springbook documents can be backed up online.
Update them when something changes, or at least twice a year. A good reminder: when the clocks change.
When the power goes out
In at-risk fire areas, the dry season can also mean days without power when the utility shuts off lines to prevent fires. No power means no Wi-Fi, no printer, and sometimes no way into your accounts. Dead phone, you are out of luck.
Your Springbook binder works by flashlight. Your key contacts, medical information, and account details can be printed, where you can access them with no charger and no password.
Be prepared before it matters.
Springbook gives your family everything they need, in a binder you can grab and a drive that fits in your pocket.