Why NotHereAnymore.com ?
Although hard to admit, I am getting old. And I have a significant web site and social presence that I would like to keep active after I am gone. Plus I'd like to leave some comforting and encouraging messages to family and friends.
I have several personal web sites, plus web sites that I build and manage for others. There are email accounts that need to be monitored, plus the usual array of social media places. I maintain the sites now, but some sites will need someone to maintain them after I am Not Here Anymore.
And then there is family, and friends. I'd like to leave them some words of comfort and encouragement.
The Idea
So I created NotHereAnymore.com – a place where I could leave important instructions and information for others to carry on my web presence after I am "Not Here Anymore".
Then it evolved to more than that. It became a place for others to do the same thing.
What We Provide
NotHereAnymore.com can send out any information to people you have designated; information that you think might be important to them: messages, where you hid the car keys; that secret cash stash in your bookcase; anything at all. Or maybe a final, encouraging message to family or friends that you have thought well of them, or a message of 'closure' that you'll ask someone to put on my social media sites.
NotHereAnymore.com allows you to create 'instructions' for those people. These instructions are kept on the NotHereAnymore.com site (and are fully encrypted, so your privacy is maintained). The site then sends out an "Are You OK?" message once a month to you primary and secondary email accounts. A link in the email lets me easily verify that "You am OK".
If you don't respond to that first "Are You OK?" message within three days, another message is sent to me. If there is still a non-response, one final "Are You OK?" message is sent to you. If you don't respond to all three messages, then you am probably "Not OK". So the NotHereAnymore site then sends your instructions (along with a condolence message) to those you have designated. People get your important instructions or messages, just like you wanted them to.
Now we know that the instructions are not legally binding. And they don't get my 'notes' right after you am gone. But it's all information that I wanted to share that information with them, so NotHereAnymore.com makes sure that they get my instructions or thoughts.
Free and Simple To Use
The main purpose of the NotHereAnymore.com site is for you to share your instructions and messages with your family and friends. And now it's available for anyone else to use. And it's free.
Sign-up is quite simple. It just requires your name, email address, and your password. Then you enter your instructions and the name/email of the recipient. All of that data is stored in a database - everything except your email is uniquely encrypted.
Then all you need to do is respond to the "Are You OK?" message when it is sent out every 30 days. It just takes a quick click of a link in the message. And then you go on with your life until the next "Are You OK?" message in a month.
Until you can't respond – because, unfortunately, you are Not Here Anymore. So your notes and messages are sent out for you, when you can't do it.
Ready for You
The NotHereAnymore.com site is ready for you to use. I use it. And although I hope that I will be able to use it for many years, it provides some peace of mind that perhaps my friends and family will be comforted by my final instructions and messages.
I suggest that the site might be useful to you. We don't know when we will be Not Here Anymore. Hopefully, a long time, but life can be random. NotHereAnymore.com will make sure your notes and messages will be sent after you are gone.
Get Started
Let me know what you think — use the contact form. Then get started.
Because life is random. Long or short, you want to be ready.
Rick Hellewell, Somewhere Opposite Mutiny Bay WA
Updated March 2022
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It's all free, and quite easy.
With just a little bit of time, you can make sure your messages and instructions are delivered.
Because you don't know when you will be Not Here Anymore.
And you want to be prepared.
Just in case.
It's easy to get started.
Do it now, while you can.