How do you save your passwords?

Many I have in a password protected document backed up to two separate hard drives.

The crucial ones, for banking and such, I have memorized only.

I have a password keeper app on my phone. This means I only have to remember one password as the others are securely in the app. This works well as long as I remember to update them! On my computer, I use a program called Dashlane. I sign into that, and if I go to a website for which Dashlane has my password, it automatically logs me in.

I have a ton saved to a Word doc

Password protected excel spreadsheet.

My passwords were all saved automatically in, I think, Chrome until suddenly that didn’t work anymore and I now use a black notebook and a pen. If all fails I just register for a new one.

I can sign into apps on my mobile by using my fingerprint which is great.

OH! Mine are saved in Excel, not Word. Duh.

I scribble them down in a small note book, that I keep in the desk.

I have a little blank journal book that has lined pages, that I use. I put the website (i.e. “Amazon”), the email I used to sign up, the password, and if it requested a birthdate or other security phrase, I list that, too, so I know what I used if I need it for recovery. If there’s a membership number, like for Costco or AAA, I put that, too. If I change the password, I put the date I changed it.

In that book, I also have some other interesting stuff, like a list of documentaries that I watched, and some important phone numbers in case anything ever happens to my phone, I have some numbers that I don’t want to lose.

Mine are all written down in front of god and everybody. All that I write down are just clues, I defy anyone to decrypt stdhses or nm2chs.

They’re in my noodle

Note book.

Chrome knows the vast majority of my passwords.

One password that I don’t have stored is my bank account info
Nobody knows it (except IT).
Sometimes it pops up Google searches and that upsets me.

Thank you guys! There are several good ideas that will help me.

@smudges I don’t always use my accurate birthdate when signing up for things, so if I don’t, (like if I determine they don’t need it, so the day may be a day or two off and the year might be a year off), I’ll put the “fake” birthdate in the book, too, so if they ask, I know what I put.

Also, when they ask security questions like what was your favorite vacation spot or what’s the name of your first pet, I put the q and a so I know it, in case they ask.

also when they ask for a security question like your first pet, etc, make the answer something completely different and unrelated. The actual answers can be guessed and/or found out.
So the answer to “what was the name of your first pet”, could be “myprolapsedanusleaksbloodeveryday”.

I usually have them saved in the browser for the auto login feature but I should write them down.

Password manager app. I use 1Password, but others are good too.

Everyone should go to www.haveibeenpwned.com and put in their email addresses to see if their passwords are leaked on lists that hackers use.

The way people get hacked is they use the same password for their email account they use for their banking as they do to their friend’s book club registry. The registry gets hacked, wasn’t using best practices because of course it wasn’t and then they extract a huge list of email/passwords. Then they try those on sites like gmail and can reset passwords on your bank,, 401k, etc and even have 2-factor authentication access. Reusing passwords is a big no-no.

I use LastPass app. That way I can have different passwords for different sites and not have to remember them all.

Old school. Everything is written In a notebook, specifically, a telephone/address book.
It is decades old.

Like @jca2, I also change my birth date on many sites. That goes into the book as well. I also write the last time I used that log in.
Everything is written in pencil so I can easily erase and change the information.

@canidmajor In case you missed it. There is a scene in Seinfeld where Kramer tries to figure out George’s password. (Answer: it’s “Bosco” the chocolate syrup) Kramer figures out a password.

I have my real birthdate only in certain sites.

I use @RocketGuy‘s birthdate for all my passwords.

@Caravanfan How do you have his birthdate?

@KRD I’ve known him for 45 years. But I’m kidding, I don’t really use his birthdate.

Good! I didn’t want to change all my passwords to 12345: https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k?si=0S83A7iSZEGmb-TK

I use Keepass password manager. It saves the data in an encrypted file.

I save that file to a one drive folder, which means it is instantly backed up to the cloud, with versioning, so if I mess it up I can revert to a prep mess state.

I have OneDrive on all my computers and my Android phones, so I have the up-to-date file available regardless of what machine I’m using.

“prep mess” was meant to be pre-mess

@RocketGuy I was hoping the link would take me there and you delivered me to the exact destination I was hoping to go to. The Schwartz is strong in you!