Switched from password manager to a physical notebook after 2 weeks of lockout headaches

I kept getting locked out of my password manager (Bitwarden) because the auto-fill kept glitching on my phone in Denver traffic last Tuesday. It took me 45 minutes to reset everything while parked at a gas station, which was ridiculous. Now I just write my important logins in a small notebook I keep in my work bag, safe but always accessible. Anyone else dump digital for analog after one too many tech fails?

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kelly.robin14d agoMost Upvoted

3 times I've lost notebooks to coffee spills and laundry cycles. Bitwarden's emergency access feature lets my wife get in if I get hit by a bus, which a soggy notebook can't do. Digital backups across multiple devices will always be safer than a single physical point of failure.

sage_park614d ago

Gotta point out though, digital isn't always safer just because it's across multiple devices. If you don't have a solid backup strategy like 3-2-1, you're still at risk from ransomware or a hard drive crash wiping everything out. A notebook might survive a coffee spill if it's in a ziplock bag, but your cloud service could go down or lock you out without warning. Also, biometric locks on phones can fail, and if you lose your master password and your phone breaks at the same time, you're locked out for good. So yeah, digital is great, but you gotta treat it like a system, not a set-it-and-forget-it solution.