Legacy Backup

Journey Cloud Sync offers a Legacy feature to ensure your thoughts and memories are securely passed to your chosen loved ones. This feature allows your friends or family access to your digital journal entries under specific conditions.

How Does Legacy Work?

Two months before the end of your chosen waiting period, Journey will contact you three times on different days to confirm account activity. If there's no response due to inactivity, the Legacy process begins.

Journey will archive your account and journals, creating a secure link to the archive. This link will be emailed to your designated trustees at the end of the waiting period, allowing them to download and access your memories. The link will expire after the waiting period concludes.

Setting Up Legacy

Journey Desktop

Open Journey Desktop > settings > cloud > select a Journey Cloud Sync > Legacy Backup.

Web

Go to web app > settings > cloud > select a Journey Cloud Sync > Legacy Backup.

Choose Wait Out Period

Upon successful activation, you are prompted to select a wait out period for the Legacy feature to take effect—options include a 6-month or a 12-month duration. This period serves as a grace time to determine inactivity.

Assign Trustees

You will need to assign up to 5 trustees by entering their email addresses. These trustees are individuals you trust to handle your Journey Cloud Sync after the stipulated wait out period, should you become inactive or unable to respond.

Trustees are only informed and given access to the archive if the account owner is confirmed inactive or unable to use their account at the end of the wait out period.

The identity of the trustees remains confidential within Journey until the Legacy process is initiated.

If your drive is encrypted, it's crucial to share the passphrase with your trustees separately. Trustees are not automatically notified by Journey; this responsibility falls upon you to communicate your decision and passphrase to them at an appropriate time.