1Password is amazing for this, IMO. My spouse and I have been using 1Password together for more than a decade. One of the first things I set up is a "AAA Read Me First" note with links to a bunch of other notes and documents, including our estate planning stuff.

The biggest thing that makes me stick with 1Password, despite the semi-recent VC shenanigans, is the fact that if for some reason we fall behind on billing (for example, because the credit card got cancelled because I died) the account goes into read only mode forever. As long as 1P is a going concern the data we choose to put there is safe from the biggest risk in our threat model.

Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me. If you used KeepassXC, you wouldn't need to worry about this at all since if is entirely free.

I have never used KeepassXC so I looked it up. It seems like it solves a very different use case than what I need:

* shared vault with my spouse's user in our organization account

* multiplatform with sync

* most importantly, available without any of the hardware that I manage being in a usable state

KeepassXC doesn't solve for any of those as far as I can tell.

Just a year before my dad's stroke, my parents documented every account, password, service they had; it was incredibly helpful after he passed with all the stress and chaos