@Kimberlin I don’t think people are bone idle at all. Have you seen how many posts there are on something like this, not to mention the likes of you and I endlessly debating things, rapidly makes the threads very lengthy? Even I struggle to find stuff and I often don’t have time to wade through all the (no offense meant, people) nonsense that gets posted. It is often quicker to ask the question, even if someone then points you to a specific previous post as the answer.
@enfield250 Nothing wrong with having passwords in a notebook. Let’s face it, no one is going to hack into good old paper and pencil. The problem is storing it somewhere safe rather than leaving your passwords on a post-it note stuck to the monitor.
Many years ago, before password managers, I used a system of storing passwords on coloured index cards, with a slip of paper in my wallet acting as the index. For example, this forum would on the list as R3. The password would actually be written on line 3 of the red card. Of course, modern brute forcing techniques would make the list on the cards vulnerable today if it fell into the wrong hands but, as it was locked in my filing cabinet when not in use, someone would have to burgle the house to get it. And the list in my wallet was useless without the cards.
There are other techniques you can use as well. For a while I recorded passwords with the first three and one but last characters being dummies. Anyone attempting to spray those passwords would hit a brick wall, even if they did nick the index cards.
