Had to pick between a password manager and a notebook for my logins

I went with the notebook for 3 months after getting sketched out by a data breach, but then my dog chewed it up and I lost everything. Has anyone else had a similar system fail and switched back?

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mark_mitchell14d ago

Man, that dog story hurt to read. Had a buddy who swore by sticky notes on his monitor until his roommate's cat knocked a glass of water onto the desk and it was just a wet, illegible mess. He tried to reconstruct his passwords from memory and got locked out of his bank account twice. Ended up taping a piece of paper to the underside of his keyboard drawer like some kinda spy from a bad movie. Eventually gave up and went back to a password manager too. The digital option feels weird until something physical gets wrecked.

rubys8014d ago

Oh man, I feel that. I used to keep a notebook under my keyboard for passwords until my nephew spilled juice all over it during a visit. Switched to a password manager after that and honestly it's way less hassle than trying to hide a piece of paper somewhere clever. Now I just let the app handle everything and don't have to worry about getting locked out again.

jessica_robinson2314d ago

My uncle had his password manager get hacked last year and lost access to everything for three days... @mark_mitchell I'll take a soggy sticky note over that kind of digital nightmare any day.