Thanks for sharing your thoughts ! The password should definitely be a strong one and writing it in a notebook is worth an idea. Cheers.

Writing down your passwords in a well organized password book is the best way to keep your log-in credentials safe—period!

While some may say that it takes too long to look up their info—I say—lets put aside our indifference to true password security for the sake of real protection.

Most people that spend the time to write this stuff down, stand a better chance at remembering their passwords without having to look them up anyway, because by using our other senses (touch, sound if we say it out-loud to ourselves while we’re writing them down…), we’ll be creating stronger memory connections in our brains, thus increasing the likelihood we will remember them without having to look them up all the time.

Of course, I’m not advocating that anyone hold on to the same password forever, but even if you create your own (reasonably long-enough), random password, then it should be relatively safe from being compromised for at least a few months anyways. And when I say “reasonably long-enough,” I mean like 18 or more characters, at the least.

Regardless of this age of instant gratification (where it’s all about I, me, and what I want yesterday), I will never balk at the idea that I might have to spend even an extra 30-60 seconds of my life, looking up a password that I may not remember, because to me that extra half a minute is worth the time and effort if it can spare help spare my identity and sensitive info from being hi-jacked.