This weekend, I found myself featured in The Sun in a piece about the “sandwich generation” — people managing children, ageing parents, finances, and everything in between.
It’s a group I know well.
But what struck me wasn’t the coverage itself. It was what sat underneath it.
Because this isn’t really about organisation
There’s a long-standing assumption that if people feel overwhelmed by life admin, it’s because they’re not organised enough. That they need better folders, better systems, or simply better habits.
But in my experience, that’s not what’s going on.
What’s changed isn’t people.
It’s the volume
Households today are managing a level of ongoing administration that simply didn’t exist in the same way before.
Subscriptions renew quietly in the background. Insurance policies tick along year after year. There are warranties, passports, school communications, medical records. Documents that only seem to matter at the exact moment you can’t find them.
And alongside all of that, there are deadlines. Renewal dates. Expiry points.
Most of it sits silently, unnoticed.
Until something gets missed.
None of this is particularly difficult
But it is constant.
And because it’s constant, it creates a kind of background pressure. The sort that sits just behind your thinking:
Have I done that?
Where did I save that?
When does that need renewing?
It’s not one task
It’s a continuous stream of small responsibilities that never quite goes away.
The challenge with this kind of admin is that it doesn’t announce itself. It builds gradually.
Until suddenly you need something urgently and can’t find it. Or a renewal rolls over and costs more than expected. Or a deadline passes that you didn’t realise was approaching.
What looks like a small oversight is often the result of too many moving parts being managed across too many places.
Most people are trying to hold all of this together using a mix of email, notes, calendars, and paper.
And to a point, that works.
But none of those tools were designed to manage documents, deadlines, and renewals as a connected system.
So the responsibility still sits with the individual to remember, track, and retrieve.
Which raises a different question...
What if the issue isn’t organisation at all?
What if the system simply doesn’t reflect how life works now?
Because modern life isn’t neat or contained in one place. It’s fragmented. Ongoing. Layered.
And it requires something that can hold information, connect it, and surface it at the right moment.
That’s why we built Doqit
Not to help people become more organised.
But to create a system that works with the reality of modern life — where documents, information, and deadlines are connected, and nothing gets missed simply because it was sitting quietly in the background.
When something like life admin starts appearing in national conversations, it’s usually a signal.
Not that people need to try harder.
But that the nature of the problem has changed.
Because life admin isn’t difficult.
It’s just relentless.
This topic was featured in The Sun. You can read the full article here
About Doqit:
Doqit is the system households rely on to make sure nothing gets missed.
Founded by Catherine Ann Reid and built from lived experience, Doqit was created to take the weight of life admin off people's shoulders; not by helping them 'get organised', but by giving them a system that works with the reality of modern life.
It connects documents, information and deadlines in one place, so everything is easy to find, simple to manage, and there when it's needed most.
From insurance policies and passports to school records and medical information, Doqit keeps track of the details that matter - reducing mental load and giving people confidence that nothing is slipping through the cracks.
Because life admin isn't difficult. It's just relentless.
Published: 25 March 2026