1. Take inventory of your digital assets“What do I have?" That’s the most important starting point, says Alison Arden Besunder, a trust-and-estate partner at the New York City law firm Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP.“Unless you take stock of what you have, you can’t think about what you want to happen to it when you die," she said.You don’t have to write down every file name on your cluttered desktop.
Instead, make a list of the places where your most important information lives.Think in big categories. There are your personal files, which include cloud or local storage of your digital photos, videos and documents.