Just fyi. I have been using a computer day timer for 20 years now. I use Efficient Man’s Organizer that has a password generator in the tools area. I simply tried the organizer one day and got a free version. It seems to me now that the Efficient Man’s Organizer is now only a paid for program. I dunno. Seems like a little browsing could still find a free one…Anyway…you can design your passwords in this generator. Because I can do a copy and paste, I use a pretty difficult password. Mine is 15 characters of mixed numbers, capital letters, small letters and special characters. It ends up mostly few letters and a lot of other stuff. I just have an easy way to copy and paste a password…so it is a simple process for me. Oh, I use an old version of Franklin Planner. Version 7.1.1 for my organizer. The Effecient one only to get new passwords. Franklin Covey totally changed the programming after that. The newer version 8. whatever is totallly not compatible with the 7 version. I had to set my laptop to use Windows 7 in order to keep using it. 7 just for the planner. Windows 10 for all other stuff. I keep them in the address file of Franklin. I open Franklin first thing every morning and look at my things to do for the day. A simple click on the address file and go to the particular site name I wish to access and click and copy the password. Then just paste it into the site when signing in. Just fyi…apologize for long msg
I am far and I mean far from being a computer literate person. I do keep a list of my passwords and various sign in names but I keep mine on a thumb drive that I only plug in when I need to look up the data. I did not want to keep a list in my computer for fear of being hacked and then they would get that data. (not that the world would come to an end or anything if it happened). This system you use, does it stay within your computer? If so, how safe is it if you are hacked?
Well, yes it stays within the computer. The password generator only generates the password. So that one is not dangerous. One can simply generate a password…copy it down or copy paste…to a notepad. Then generate another password and close it down. But the passwords do stay in my computer. There are not all in one file…say passwords bucket so to speak. They are in an address file. And the name of the website alphabetically like any other telephone book had the password associated with it. So it is a lengthy address file with many legit address’s and phone numbers between the website one’s. I have a password to get into my Franklin Daytimer. So I would not know how to quantify how secure it is. But have not had any trouble so far. I only use the Franklin features that I wish to utilize. I do not use many of the features. But it works swell for me. The middle of the screen shows seven days with time on the left. I can click on any day and put in an appointment. When ever I open the program…I will immediately notice that appointment part. Then on the left are things to do…many of them repeatable each day, or week, what ever. And tasks not completed automatically forward to the next day if not checked off. Then on the right I have sort of a diary. A daily Record of Events form which is just a dated notepad. And then there are turbo files. I can keep info on anything and stick it in the turbo files. And if in a pinch or six months from now and do not know or see the file…use the binnoculars search feature to find it. More than you wish to know I am sure.
some old passwords I have used…
$%J9%C*^%6!i8#T
rLk*T4!ejR74RVC
T49T49k75QB6^k3WI&
k75QB6^k3WI&
There are a ton of free password generators on the web so you could just use one of them if you like, but I’d recommend something like LastPass which is an online service that generates, tracks, and even autofills logins. I’m just paranoid enough that I do not even trust LastPass with really important passwords, but to keep track of web site passwords for forums and the like, it is a major time saver.