How do you remember all of your passwords?

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I’m curious as to how people remember their passwords? I’ve noticed that as I’m using more websites/apps that require a username and password, it’s getting harder to remember from memory, especially accounts I use infrequently but still need. I try to do variations of a few passwords to make it stronger but I’m struggling. Would you recommend any particular password managers?

I use bitwarden at home and my company pays for keeper. But if it's just for your own use, why not just apple or chrome password manager? I pay for bitwarden because it's shared with DH and the children.

I remember my online banking and ask ds1 for everything else

Three random words is is the strongest password you can get.

If you go on the website howsecureismypassword, you can check the strength of your current ones. They need to be in the order of hundreds of millions of years, not a few thousand.

But three random words, for example you could have chairdoorfirealarm as a password. If you want to keep the same password for every account, just use the following example

Chairdoorfirealarmemail
Chairdoorfirealarmbank
Chairdoorfirealarmcarinsurance
Chairdoorfirealarmworkemail

Just use the same three words ,but type in which account they belong to at the end. This makes the password even more secure, and you NEVER have to remember any passwords ever again, because all your passwords are the "same".

This is the current advice from my work Cyber Security department.

I don’t remember them, I use Apple keychain to generate and store them

Bitwarden works for me

I have a system! Similar to but not the same as this: write down an alphabetical list of e.g. foods, plants or countries, one for each letter. Then whatever the company/website name is, make the password the food beginning with the first letter of its name, the food beginning with the second letter, then the number of letters of the website's name twice, then a # (or symbol of your choice!).

So Amazon might be applemushroom66* . You soon start to remember your list of foods.

I have 3 uppercase/lowercase letters, numbers and symbols combos I use generally. 12 characters.
They are unguessable and apparently can take 200 years to crack😂

I use KeePass

I don't.
I just struggle every time I need to log on to anything.

Jsut to say I used to do name word number combo but so many people use it, it's actually quite easy gess now

My iPad and iPhone remember all my passwords for me. The special ones are stored in Dashlane.

I save the password to the device so it comes up automatically.But I mostly use the same password anyhow.

For work I have everything on a word document, at home my passwords are all the same or I just keep resetting them.

I write them in a book.

I use a complex phrase that nobody else knows and the website first and last letter in capitals plus a number and symbol which stay the same

So for Amazon I would use
A(complex phrase)N2025£

I write them in an address book that I keep hidden at home. I think a single physical copy in a boring looking book sitting amongst loads of others at home is way safer than any form of digital copy these days.

iPhone autofills a lot of mine 🙈 I know my banking ones and have them written down in some paper in the cupboard…!

I use password manager and I remember my banking passwords.

No problem remembering card numbers.
With online shopping, etc., I have a good, strong password which I then add the name of the site to at the front, in the middle or at the end.

Nordpass.

I resisted at first, husband has had it for years, but now all my passwords have been changed to random generated ones by Nordpass and I only have to remember the main 2 passwords to get into nordpass.

All financial apps / websites are by the secure passwords and I've removed face ID so if my phone gets stolen the thieves cavy change the face ID and get into my bank account

Bitwarden password manager. I have no idea what my passwords actuallly are, I only know the 1 password to get into the vault.

Google remembers them for me

I have a very random system: say it's a supermarket chain - the first word I think of is FOOD. A bank - Barclays makes me think of BLUE, HSBC RED So I have a selection of random letters/capitals/numbers same on every password lets call it ranDom183, and stick a capital FranDom183OOD or BranDom183LUE or RranDom183ED If the password requires a symbol then I bung in a ! or a * at the start.

So nobody would ever guess them.

I don't exactly this although I change on of the words letters to a symbol and another to a number as these are usually required in a password. E.g Ch@airf1realarmemail

I also use Google Chrome password manager.

Although I accidentally managed to delete them all when I got a new work laptop but it is far easier than I remember to reset them now.

They just email you a link to click, possibly also text a code and let it pick another long and complex one, which it saves automatically.