With all the websites we go to these days and all the information we need to keep track of - how do you keep track of your stuff? Do you have a memory like an elephant, use a little notebook, organize everything on your computer - what?
I’m also curious, what type of information you find yourself saving.
Here are a few examples of the types of information I save. Are yours the same?
- S/FTP information (for various websites)
- MySQL info
- website login info
- security system numbers
- Software serial numbers
- System password
- etc…
Those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head but I’m curious what type of information do you find youself trying to remember.
posted on October 2, 2005 | 5:49 PM EST
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I don’t use enough software that requires serial numbers to worry too much about that. I just leave the sticker on the cd.
There are two sets of info I need to keep written down: passwds and credit card numbers. Both I keep in gpg encrypted files.
I have about 35 passwds I need to keep track of. I don’t have a “work” credit card, so when I want to buy something for work, I use one from someone else in the office. To make it easier, I keep everyone’s data on file.
I make a text file with the stuff in it, and then gpg it, and delete the plain text one. Then I have a small script that asks for the passphrase, decrypts it, and send it to a screen buffer. All I have to do is close the window and they’re gone again.
Google, my blog links and a few site URLs in memory. :-) Passwords are put into memory (biological).
Does anyone else find browser bookmarks to be nearly useless?
Seems like I have the hardest time remembering when my next class is. Passwords are based on 3 tiers, 1st are the least important passwords, and so on.
I’m a self proclaimed genius so I remember all the other stuff I need. And no, bookmarks are not useless.
addresses of friend and relatives with birthdays, notes about what things my wife would like for presents, dates and events…. All stored in Outlook and replicated on my (company) blackberry. Secure? No, but not highly in demand either. (Posted from a blackberry, waiting for a daughters concert to begin.)
Topher Says:
I don’t use enough software that requires serial numbers to worry too much about that. I just leave the sticker on the cd.
There are two sets of info I need to keep written down: passwds and credit card numbers. Both I keep in gpg encrypted files.
I have about 35 passwds I need to keep track of. I don’t have a “work” credit card, so when I want to buy something for work, I use one from someone else in the office. To make it easier, I keep everyone’s data on file.
I make a text file with the stuff in it, and then gpg it, and delete the plain text one. Then I have a small script that asks for the passphrase, decrypts it, and send it to a screen buffer. All I have to do is close the window and they’re gone again.