Features
Five jobs a household vault has to do well
Organize what you have, stay ahead of what is due, share it safely, be ready in an emergency, and stay useful on an ordinary Tuesday.
Organize
Everything a household accumulates, filed where the next person would think to look. Fourteen categories cover the usual ground, and custom fields handle whatever your family keeps that nobody else does.
All vault categories
Life and health insurance, medical records, home information, utilities, bank and investment accounts, vehicles, home inventory, key contacts, estate and legal, pets, emergency info and shopping lists. Each category has fields written for that subject rather than a blank note.
Custom fields
Add your own fields to any entry when the standard ones do not fit. They behave like built-in fields, including in search and export.
File attachments on any entry
Attach scans, photos and PDFs directly to the record they belong to. The document and the details that explain it never drift apart.
Search across the vault
One search box covers every category, field and attachment name. Type a policy number, a vet's name or a street, and the entry surfaces.
Stay ahead
Dates are the part of household admin that quietly goes wrong. MyVesta turns every expiry into something you see coming, in the app and in the calendar you already use.
Renewal and expiry reminders
Any dated field — a policy, a registration, a warranty, a passport — can raise a reminder well before the day. You choose how far ahead, and who gets told.
Upcoming renewals widget
The dashboard opens on what is due next, ordered by date and grouped by category. It is the first thing anyone in the household sees when they sign in.
In-app household calendar
Every dated entry from every category sits on one shared calendar. Month and list views make a quiet year or a heavy month obvious at a glance.
Private calendar feed
Subscribe from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook using a private feed link. Renewals then appear beside your ordinary appointments, and update themselves.
In an emergency
The moment someone needs your household's details is the moment nobody has time to search. One page, compiled from what is already in the vault, covers it.
Auto-compiled emergency sheet
Medical conditions, allergies, medications, insurance IDs and flagged emergency contacts are pulled together into a single printable page. It rebuilds itself whenever the underlying records change.
Flagged emergency contacts
Mark any key contact as an emergency contact and they move to the top of the sheet. Doctors, next of kin and the neighbor with a spare key all sit in one place.
Print it or carry it
Print a copy for the fridge, the car and a relative's house, or open the same page on a phone. No sign-in fumbling at a hospital reception desk.
Everyday
A vault only stays current if people open it. The everyday tools give the household a reason to be in MyVesta between the once-a-year paperwork.
Shared shopping lists
Create as many lists as the household needs, from the weekly shop to the hardware run. Anyone with access can add, tick off and clear items.
Frequent items library
Items you buy often are remembered and offered as one-tap additions. Building next week's list takes seconds rather than a scroll through memory.
Real-time sync across devices
Changes appear on every device the moment they are made. Two people in different aisles never buy the same thing twice.
How it compares with the usual alternatives
Most households already use one of these, and they each do something well. Here is a fair account of where they hold up and where they tend to give way.
A shoebox of paperwork
- Holds the original signed documents
- Needs no accounts or devices
- Only findable by whoever filed it
- Nothing warns you before a renewal
- One flood, fire or house move away from gone
A shared notes app
- Quick to start
- Already on everyone's phone
- Free-form text, so details go missing
- Sharing is all-or-nothing
- No structure for dates or attachments
A spreadsheet
- Flexible and familiar
- Good for lists and totals
- Documents live somewhere else
- Reminders and calendars have to be built by hand
- Awkward on a phone, and easy to overwrite
MyVesta
- Structured categories with custom fields and attachments
- Reminders, calendar and subscribable feed built in
- Per-category access with a full activity log
- Auto-compiled emergency sheet, export and deletion
- A subscription, and an evening to set up properly