If you’re an infrequent user of sites like ebay or paypal, you probably make more use of the “I forgot my password, please email it to me” function than you should. I decided to take the simple step of creating a “subscription management” folder in my email client so I’d always have those details to hand.
Now whenever I create an account on a website (which usually generates an email confirming my login details), I just drop the email into my subs management folder and it will be there next time I’m trying to remember my password. Requesting a new password usually generates a reminder email with your new login details – I keep those in my subs folder too.
My subs management folder has a long list of subscriptions, ranging from Remember the Milk, Ticketek, YouTube and Wikipedia. Now they’re just a Thunderbird search away, which has been a real time saver. How do you remember all your online subscription details?
Bryce Whitty
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 10:59 AMI keep almost all of my passwords different (for security reasons) but they all follow a certain formula. For important things such as bank accounts I have a long complex password. For things which I use alot of have another (not so complex) and for times when I am just doing a once off, such as a forum post that I’ll probably never come back to, I have a low level, easily guessable password.
So the way I remember which site has what password is I ask myself how important is this site to me, then I know which password I should use. Works for me :)