What is RegiFolio?
Make room for today.
Care for what matters.
There are things we want to remember, responsibilities we mean to attend to, and details we would rather not carry around in our heads.
A vehicle title. The insurance on our home. Information that would help us care for a parent. A decision we need to make. Something that can wait, if we know we will be able to find it again.
RegiFolio gives each matter a place.
Not because every part of life needs to be organized, but because the things that need our care should be easier to understand, easier to find, and easier to return to.
What is a RegiFolio?
A RegiFolio is a place for a matter you are stewarding. It can bring together:
What you know: the essential facts, details, and context.
What you have (its Contents): documents, copies, references, and where originals can be found.
Who is involved (its Connections): the people, organizations, and services connected to the matter.
What needs attention (its Needs): a next step, an upcoming date, or nothing at all right now.
A RegiFolio might be about your home, your dog, a vehicle, a business, or someone you are helping. Some stand alone; others belong to a larger RegiFolio. You can begin with what you know and add more only when it helps.
Together, your RegiFolios form your Regi: your registry of what matters.
The RegiFolio application is the digital place where you can open and care for that registry. You may also use printed RegiFolios as part of a paper-based practice.
What does it mean to care for a matter?
When something crosses your desk or comes into your hands, begin with one question:
Do I need to care for this?
If the answer is yes, give it an appropriate place and decide what it needs. If the answer is not now, leave it where you can return to it. And if it does not require your care, you do not have to turn it into another obligation, while respecting any relevant retention or other duties.
This approach is called Stewarding. RegiStewarding is our named method for putting that practice to work: noticing matters, giving them a place, and returning to them when care is needed.
You do not have to adopt a whole new routine overnight. Start with one matter. Steward only as deeply as it helps.
How can I begin?
You can begin with a single RegiFolio. Or you can take a Stewarding Survey to consider the kinds of matters in a particular situation. The Survey helps you select and personalize what is relevant; what you choose not to include is left out.
Your selected matters can be gathered into a RegiFolio Pack, a dated PDF that you can keep digitally, download and print, or have printed and mailed. A Pack has three familiar parts:
An index of the RegiFolios in that Pack.
Your personalized RegiFolios, with the information you have already supplied.
RegiFolio Recipes, practical instructions for caring for those matters.
The index is the first page of your Pack.
If you prefer paper, your printed RegiFolios can go in a RegiFolio Case. That Case can be part of your Stewarding Kit: any convenient bag, box, or collection of supplies you bring to practice Stewarding or attend a Stewarding Social.
Paper and digital can work together
A printed RegiFolio helps you work with something physically in front of you. The digital RegiFolio helps you keep the matter current and its information connected.
When implemented, the QR code on an individual RegiFolio takes an authorized steward to that living matter, where they can review details or add a document. The QR code on the Pack index identifies that specific dated Pack PDF, so it remains possible to revisit exactly what was gathered at that time.
These are different purposes: a matter changes; a dated Pack records a moment. Private materials remain subject to authorization. Possessing a QR code is not, by itself, permission to see them.
Why the name RegiFolio?
A registry is a record you can return to. A folio began as a leaf or page and developed associations with books and collected records. In portfolio, the word joins the idea of carrying papers with a gathered body of work.
RegiFolio is our coined name for a registry of the matters you care for. It combines the idea of keeping a record with the idea of gathering what belongs together.
There is a deeper story behind the name, told in our foundational essay, From Carrying to Caring. But you do not need to know any of that history to begin.
You only need one thing that deserves your care.
A place to return
RegiFolio is not meant to fill your day with administration. It is meant to help you spend less time mentally rehearsing what must not be forgotten.
Give a matter a place. Bring into view what you know and what it needs. Return when appropriate. Then continue with the day in front of you.
RegiFolio. Make room for today. Care for what matters.