Regarding scans and/or hard copies of important documents for travel (passports, driver's licenses, global entry cards, emergency contacts, credit card numbers and phone numbers, medical cards):
Q: what documents do you have copies of? for something like a passport, in addition to the photo/data page, do you copy relevant visa pages?
Q: where and in what format do you carry the copies?
I've seen advice to email docs to yourself (do I really want them in gmail?), store them in the cloud (OneDrive? iCloud), put them on you phone/tablet (what happens if that is lost or stolen)?, store on a flash drive somewhere ...
If you had to head to an embassy to get your passport replaced, could you get access to documents in email/cloud?
Alternatively (or in addition) some folks hide hard copies in their luggage...
How do you keep your documents secure yet accessible in an emergency?
Q: what documents do you have copies of? for something like a passport, in addition to the photo/data page, do you copy relevant visa pages?
Q: where and in what format do you carry the copies?
I've seen advice to email docs to yourself (do I really want them in gmail?), store them in the cloud (OneDrive? iCloud), put them on you phone/tablet (what happens if that is lost or stolen)?, store on a flash drive somewhere ...
If you had to head to an embassy to get your passport replaced, could you get access to documents in email/cloud?
Alternatively (or in addition) some folks hide hard copies in their luggage...
How do you keep your documents secure yet accessible in an emergency?