Step 1: get a spreadsheet app. Excel is vast overkill, and expensive. The various web-based apps (Google Docs, the web versions of MS Office and Apple iWork, others) share data with the vendor. LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and similar, and Numbers on a Mac or iDevice are free and don’t blab. I use LibreOffice for personal tasks.
Step 2: set up a spreadsheet table, three columns: site, username, password.
Step 3: enter the data. Example: Netflix, Old99Bot#, P@55W0rd18. Keep entering until all password combos are entered. Have the spreadsheet app sort them into an order of your choice. You can dig out the spreadsheet and and more, and have the spreadsheet app sort them again.
Step 4: save the spreadsheet on a removable devices, such as a USB thumb drive. Do NOT leave a copy on your computer. Security reasons.
Step 5: print it
Step 6: remove the thumb drive, place it in a known location. Take the printout, place that in a different known location. Get one PostIt note, write down the two known locations, stick it to the bezel of your display.
You could use a password manager service, such as 1Password, but that now ties your passwords to your computer, and costs money. Apple builds Keychain into Macs and iDevices, but Apple’s stuff ain’t cheap. My way is cheap. I use Keychain on Apple devices, but because Keychain talks to Windows only grudgingly and to Linux not at all, I also put everything into a spreadsheet and print a copy and stick it in a drawer.
Cleverly and without anybody noticing, I store (Amazon: Periwinkle1969) all my passwords (HBOMax: DunderheadBlue) in hidden messages (GoComics:SchulzPastisLoveChild) on GoComics.
Algolei I almost 4 years ago
LILO.
Zykoic almost 4 years ago
Ya need to have a hashtag preferably salted.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 4 years ago
“Netflix password”
Sanspareil almost 4 years ago
Does he watch movies like “The rise of the machines” or “I Robot” or does he watch the the Brady Bunch type of movies?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 4 years ago
Get a Chromebook. It’ll remember it all for you. It probably already has more memory even without bothering with the cloud.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The one stuck to the screen, of course! ;-)
Painted Wolf almost 4 years ago
Step 1: get a spreadsheet app. Excel is vast overkill, and expensive. The various web-based apps (Google Docs, the web versions of MS Office and Apple iWork, others) share data with the vendor. LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and similar, and Numbers on a Mac or iDevice are free and don’t blab. I use LibreOffice for personal tasks.
Step 2: set up a spreadsheet table, three columns: site, username, password.
Step 3: enter the data. Example: Netflix, Old99Bot#, P@55W0rd18. Keep entering until all password combos are entered. Have the spreadsheet app sort them into an order of your choice. You can dig out the spreadsheet and and more, and have the spreadsheet app sort them again.
Step 4: save the spreadsheet on a removable devices, such as a USB thumb drive. Do NOT leave a copy on your computer. Security reasons.
Step 5: print it
Step 6: remove the thumb drive, place it in a known location. Take the printout, place that in a different known location. Get one PostIt note, write down the two known locations, stick it to the bezel of your display.
You could use a password manager service, such as 1Password, but that now ties your passwords to your computer, and costs money. Apple builds Keychain into Macs and iDevices, but Apple’s stuff ain’t cheap. My way is cheap. I use Keychain on Apple devices, but because Keychain talks to Windows only grudgingly and to Linux not at all, I also put everything into a spreadsheet and print a copy and stick it in a drawer.
Michael G. almost 4 years ago
Get a horse, old timer!
gantech almost 4 years ago
“I once invented an invisible watch…spot the design flaw.” ~ Peter Capaldi
DCBakerEsq almost 4 years ago
Cleverly and without anybody noticing, I store (Amazon: Periwinkle1969) all my passwords (HBOMax: DunderheadBlue) in hidden messages (GoComics:SchulzPastisLoveChild) on GoComics.
cuzinron47 almost 4 years ago
And then you to figure out which of the Netflix passwords is the current one. I know I’ve had to change my Google password about 10 times.
Thinkingblade almost 4 years ago
He’s not kidding – I know a few database architects that have had an opppsie on occasion taking world wide systems down.